Karen Collins Leadership Presentation

Hello. My name is Karen Collins and this is my

leadership presentation for the Leadership in Libraries course in the

lease program at Valdosta State University.

This presentation is based on an interview with Wayne morse,

the co director of the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship.

I am grateful to Mr Morris for meeting with me

on a private zoom call and answering questions about his

personal and professional lives.

Mr Morris has given me permission to use the images

and content from our interview for this presentation.

The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship is a center within

the Woodruff Library in Emory University.

E. C.

D. S.

Is a collaborative research center that works with staff students,

partner institutions to advance research, pedagogy and outreach through digital

tools and methods.

Areas of research include accessibility, making scholarship discoverable to a

broad audience, geographic information systems and mapping, multimedia production, network

analysis, online exhibits pedagogy, publishing, statistical analysis and emerging technologies

such as V.

R. A.

R. And mixed reality.

To visualize academic content, leadership experts to teach us.

There are some general predecessors of leading including evolutionary forces,

childhood influences and resiliency.

These three factors intermix and create the potential for the

emergence of a person possessive of leadership qualities and also

one of enacting the role of a leader that's from

Padilla. When I asked mr morse to speak about his

childhood, he regaled me with stories of a unique and

inspiring backdrop to his life.

The stories substantiate padilla's finding that childhood influences include everything

a child is exposed to in and around the home

and early socialization affects future leadership behavior.

Mr morse lit up when I asked him about his

hometown, I grew up in Dayton Ohio.

Known as the birthplace of aviation.

The Wright Brothers Home was a mile away from a

house. The city is also home to the National Museum

of the United States Air Force.

Dayton is also the home of the National Aviation Hall

of Fame.

My father was actually president of the Aviation Hall of

Fame, and my mother had a T.

V. Show in Dayton.

She was the first woman on color tv, a woman

pioneer in broadcasting.

My father had his own advertising agency to support Mom's

show and my sister and I were in numerous commercials.

Mr Morris told me stories of the guests who had

appeared on his mother's show, including paul, Lynde, Lucille ball

mickey Rooney and so many other stars.

He says all these famous people would come to our

house for dinner padilla states that preparation and experience are

paramount to opportunity, formal schooling on the job learning and

travel and exposure exposure to different cultures.

Different cultures are believed to be the foundation for the

presentation of leadership opportunities.

Mr Morris notes.

As for travel and exposure to different cultures, My sister

and I were exposed to people from all over the

world and we got to travel for free.

Too many exotic national and international places because of mom's

business. My dad was an advertising executive which allowed our

family to travel around the world to.

Mr Morris reflectively said, looking back now, I see how

my unique childhood exposure to so many different kinds of

well known people, international travel and involvement with my parents

businesses had a huge impact on my life.

Mr Morris demonstrated behaviours at a young age that would

later prove to be important to his success as a

collaborative leader with very strong communication and interpersonal skills.

He recounted how he moved between several social groups and

worked to try and better connect people.

Padilla also teaches us that networking mentoring and exposure to

top levels of an organization are also seen as having

a role in one's selection as a leader.

Mr Morris shared a story of a great mentor who

set him on a path that would eventually lead to

a leadership opportunity.

Mr morse took a position as a receptionist at a

multimedia company there, he had the tremendous support from dr

bob Becker, the manager of the multimedia department bob provided

him with a series of learning opportunities including digital video

production, copyright clearances, computer based training development and other opportunities

to move up to progressively more important roles.

Eventually I gained all the skills of an instructional designer

with so many skills related to multiple multimedia production.

Mr Morris displays leadership styles, charismatic and participated.

Participative and transformational, true to Padilla's assertion that some abilities

of effective leaders can be learned.

Mr More shares this recollection about his early about his

learning path and how he continues to assess himself.

My leadership skills were grown several years ago, during my

progress progress through an Emory university leadership program.

I constantly have to be aware of my personal style

tendencies and give space for reflection.

I must allow others to help to define a pathway.

One message from the leadership program was clear.

A leaders primary roles to provide the team with what

they need to be successful.

Mr Morris leads with a charismatic style, charismatic leaders are

able to encourage behaviors in other through others, through communication,

persuasion and force of personality.

Leaders with a charismatic style have body language that transmit

warmth, strength and likability and it is their confidence extra

version and clearly stated values that motivates others.

Research shows that a charismatic leader can evolve from a

unique combination of childhood factors.

These factors were protective influences, our personal qualities that draw

others to them and someone or an external family member

who buffered and nurtured the child and external support system

that nurtured and allow the child to express his or

her talents and interests.

These lay a path for a leader.

When asked mr Morris about leaders playing a bad hand.

Well he told a story uh personal story, he said

for me it wasn't the loss of a relationship, it

was the loss of physical ability in coping with it

through my personality.

I've had a physical disability my whole life that caused

me to fall down my ankles or legs would just

fall out from under me and I wasn't able to

run and keep up with the other kids.

I realized now that I was always able to use

my personality to make up for my disability.

Mr Morsi's leadership style definitely is of the transformational type,

transformational leadership theory states that leadership is the process by

which a person engages with others and is able to

create a connection that results in increased motivation and morality

in both followers and leaders.

It is often likened to the theory of charismatic leadership.

The leader is attentive to the needs and motives of

others in an attempt to help them reach their maximum

potential. Transformational leadership theories are also known as relationship theories

and they are founded on the connections formed between leaders

and followers.

When I asked Mr Morris about how he created momentum

for the Center for Digital Scholarship and how he manages

his staff of highly skilled knowledge workers, he shows a

transformational leader in action.

He says my leadership is based on trust, respect, transparency,

recognition, and investment in my staff, I have immense respect

for and trust in my staff, recognizing their accomplishments within

the group as well as across the university I feel

are keys to a successful team.

Oh finally Mr Morris demonstrates the participative leadership style.

This theory suggests that the ideal leadership is one that

takes the input of others into account.

These leaders encourage participation in contributions from group members and

help group members feel more relevant and committed to the

decision making process.

Mr moore says my leadership style is very collaborative.

He also noted when we created stds, I engaged all

members of the team in the crafting of our mission

statement. Mr Morris has many of the top 10 skills

of effective leaders.

As noted in the text by Padilla, we'll take a

look at four of his most notable skills, communication and

interpersonal skills in the Web blog All about leadership, How

do I lead steve Elniskey states, overall definitions of leadership

are becoming more process and relationship oriented.

The most important abilities of an effective leader.

Our interpersonal and communication skills Mr Morris definitely has these

to be an effective leader in a center for Digital

Scholarship or a library.

One must be able to forge fruitful partnerships that create

synergistic alliances.

Mr morse is unique upbringing combined with many other forces

that played roles in his evolution into a leadership position

seems to have primed him as a partner, able to

create these relationships throughout the university and with external organizations.

These partnerships fuel pioneering and scholarly projects and these projects

embody the essence of the Center for Digital Scholarship.

Another skill of a leader is vision and goal setting,

sometimes called sense making or the ability to transform unclear

situations into plans for action.

Using communication and clarification, Mr moore said I created a

center for Digital pedagogy at Emory.

It was the very first center of its type at

the university and I had to share my vision with

my boss, his boss and my fellow teammates who would

become part later become part of the new I.

T. Center.

Getting buy in on this vision for the new entity

was critical, organizational and technical competence is another leadership skill

possessed by Mr morse Prior to his role as co

director of Emory Center for Digital Scholarship.

Mr Morris was a senior multimedia developer and a senior

project manager for technological innovation.

He evaluated and recommended university wide web based information and

instruction systems.

Lastly, managing a staff of highly skilled and educated knowledge

workers as evidence of the ability to retain a team.

He says a leaders primary job is to provide the

team with what they need to be successful.

Yeah the effectiveness of Mr Morris's leadership is evidenced by

the many successes of E.

C. D.

S. Some of these successes are highlighted here.

Public leadership has many challenges.

Yeah, leadership in a public institution like the Center for

Digital Scholarship has challenges different from those in the private

sector. Whereas in a private organization, the need for additional

staffing and financial resources can be met when there is

justification in a public institution.

This is not the case.

These constraints on financial availability exists in the C.

D. S and they limit Mr Morris's ability to hire

the professionals talent he feels is needed.

Here are the references I used to write this essay.

What I have learned in this project is that in

order to be an effective leader in a center for

Digital Scholarship or a library, one must be able to

forge fruitful partnerships that create.

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