Sponsored by: Texas Agricultural Extension Service and the Extension Southern Region Program & Staff Development Committee |
| About SELD: |
| Thriving organizations today belong to a dynamic network in which information exchange occurs rapidly, thanks to new technologies that make the world's knowledge base ever more accessible. Leaders within these organizations know that they must respond very quickly to external challenges such as: |
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| These information technologies have been developed and distributed to the point that the world's knowledge base is now accessible to whomever has the technology to access it. This rapid expansion and distribution of the world's knowledge base, however, has brought profound and interconnected changes that are producing internal challenges to organizations. These challenges include: |
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| In addressing these external and internal challenges,
many organizations are reconfiguring themselves. The hierarchical structure of the
industrial age is giving way to the network structure of the information technology era.
The Southern Extension Leadership Development (SELD) program was created to help organizations make that transition. SELD is a professional development program designed to enhance managerial capacity, communications proficiency and team skills. |
| The centerpiece of SELD is the Managerial Proficiency (MAP) developed by Training House, Inc. of Princeton, New Jersey. MAP is a competency based, computer scored simulation that assess a participant proficiency on 12 management competencies, two leadership styles and eight values/drives. The 12 competencies are: |
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| The History of SELD: |
| Each MAP workshop is 2 1/2 days long, beginning with an evening session on organization change and creativity. SELD participants learn their preferred styles of problem solving and how each style can affect communication with team members. The next day is devoted to assessing managerial competencies. On the following days, the assessments are interpreted and participants develop learning plans for increasing their managerial skills. These plans are the basis of follow-up seminars. |
| More than 800 individuals from all Southern states and Delaware have participated in SELD workshops. Participants have given the program an average rating of 9.3 on a 10 point scale, and have overwhelmingly recommended that MAP be made available to others. |
| For more information, please contact: |
Dr. Howard Ladewig |
117A Scoates Hall |
College Station, TX 77843-2116 |
(409) 845-2250 |
| An Abstract Evaluation: |
| Southern Extension Leadership Development: An Evaluation of a Virtual Organization |
| An Abstract Evaluation: |
| Time Management and Prioritizing |
| Setting Goals and Standards |
| Planning and Scheduling Work |
| Listening and Organizing |
| Giving Clear Information |
| Getting Unbiased Information |
| Training, Coaching and Delegating |
| Appraising People and Performance |
| Disciplining and Counseling |
| Identifying and Solving Problems |
| Making Decisions, Weighing Risk |
| Thinking Clearly and Analytically |
| Resources: |
| References: |
Committee on the Future of Land Grant Colleges of Agriculture, Board on Agriculture, National Research Council |
Colleges of Agriculture at the Land Grant Universities: A Profile. Washington, D.C. National Academy Press. 1995 |
DeLisle, Peter A. "Agile Organizations. A Look at the Cognitive Problem-Solving Climates of the Agile Organization." Personal Correspondence. n.d. |
Goldman, Steven L.; Nagel, Roger N. and Kenneth Preiss. Agile Competitors and Virtual Organizations. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold. 1995 |
Hickman, Craig R. Mind of manager, Soul of a Leader. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 1990 |
Keidel, Robert W. Seeing Organizational Patterns. A New Theory and Language of Organizational Design. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. 1995 |
Kirton, Michael (ed). Adapters and Innovators. Styles of Creativity and Problem Solving. New York: Routledge. 1989 |
Miller, John R. and Thomas E. Richards. Organizations Serving the Public: Transformation to the 21st Century. New York: KPMG Peat Marwick LLP. 1997 |
Miller, Lawrence M. From Management to Leadership. Protland: Productivity Press, Inc. 1996 |
Nolan, Richard L. and David C. Cross. Creative Destruction. A Six-Stage Process for Transforming the Organization. Boston: Harvard Business School Press. 1995 |
Pagaonis, William G. and Jeffery L. Cruikshank. Moving Mountains. Lessons in Leadership and Logistics from the Gulf War. Boston: Harvard Business School Press. 1992 |
Senge, Peter M. The Fifth Discipline. The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization. New York: A Currency Book, Published by Doubleday. 1990 |