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CliftonStrengths access migration completed

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CliftonStrengths for students has successfully migrated platforms to Gallup Access. Kansas State University users will now visit https://ksu.my.gallup.com/ and login with a Single Sign On (SSO) to access their CliftonStrengths report.

For details on how to navigate this new platform, watch this short video until the 5:20 timestamp. This video will explain how to further explore your own top five Strengths, find resources, reports, and build Strengths-based online communities.

The K-State Strengths team recommends identifying a Strengths champion within your own department, unit, or work team. Strengths champions will receive access to build detailed reports for their units/teams. To request access, please email strengths@ksu.edu. Continue reading “CliftonStrengths access migration completed” →

Updates to K-State’s CliftonStrengths access

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The K-State Strengths team announces a change in utilizing the CliftonStrengths online platform.

CliftonStrengths for Students will be changing to the Gallup Access platform. This migration will take place during finals week. Starting Monday, Dec. 11, the K-State campus community will not be able to access their top five strengths through the single sign-on portal at ksu.gallup.com.

The K-State Strengths team will share the new URL after the migration has been completed so students, faculty, and staff can view their top five strengths. Utilizing this new platform provides additional opportunities for K-Staters via online resources and functionality to further develop your top five strengths and thrive.

Existing users will have access to their top five strengths prior to the start of the spring semester. The K-State Strengths team will keep the K-State community informed on the process of code distribution after the transition to the Gallup Access platform, so students can continue to identify and develop their top five strengths.

If you are teaching a winter intersession course and plan to use CliftonStrengths in your course, please contact strengths@ksu.edu to ensure students will have access to take their top five strengths assessment over winter break.

Strengths is aimed at increasing student engagement and well-being across campus so students can thrive. More than 2,500 students, faculty and staff have identified their top five strengths since the start of the 2023 fall semester. K-State Strengths will continue to provide strengths training, workshops, and peer coaching sessions to help students align their strengths with their personal and academic goals. For questions, email strengths@ksu.edu.

Staley School seeks students to participate in leadership challenge event

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Imagine your community is the midst of a crisis: a massive electrical outage, a hazardous spill, or the collapse of a major communications system across a town.

Now, imagine you are one of about four to six individuals in a position of leadership in that community that is called into action to work through the logistics and processes needed to persevere. And you’ll be judged on how your team works together to formulate the action plan.

The Washburn University Leadership Challenge Event (LCE) is a two-day crisis management simulation and an opportunity for applied learning. It provides students with intellectual and practical leadership development in a unique forum and the opportunity to network with peers from across the country.

The Staley School of Leadership is looking for undergraduate or masters-seeking students to participate in the 2024 event, which will take place Feb. 29-March 1, 2024. Students will represent Kansas State University in the two-day event at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas. Travel, meals, and accommodations are included, and the team will travel with Emmanuel Jeje, team advisor and graduate research assistant for the Kansas State University Office of Engagement.

Students interested in participating on the K-State team at the 2024 Washburn Leadership Challenge Event should email Emmanuel Jeje at eajeje@ksu.edu by Dec. 8, 2023.

K-State’s 2023 Washburn LCE team. Pictured: Back row from left: Emmanuel Jeje, Christopher Randol, Karlyn Gustin, Austin Drake. Front row from left: Jess Ramirez, Anna Coke

Last year, the Staley School took a team of five. View a story map of the event here. Continue reading “Staley School seeks students to participate in leadership challenge event” →

Revealing how to lead change in Africa by Africans: A review of It Takes a Village 

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In this book review, Chibuzor Azubuike takes a deep dive into It Takes a Village: Leading Social Change in Africa (2023) by Nigerian scholar Onyedikachi Ekwerike, Ph.D., who is currently a lecturer at the Institute for Leadership Advancement in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia.  

This begins with a foreword from Nyasha GuramatunhuCooper, Ph.D. She writes with the endearment of a mother who is proud of her son’s achievement, and yet firmly charges readers, using parables, to not only read this book but implement Ekwerike’s submission. As a Zimbabwean leadership scholar, she is excited to read a leadership book by a fellow African, given that African scholars are under-represented in leadership curriculum and literature. She, however stated that she could be scared if anyone reads this book and does not take positive actions towards social change. 

Photo of the book cover: It Takes a VillageIn the book’s introduction, Ekwerike recounts his own story. Through leading a mental health organization in Nigeria, as well as being part of leadership development programs like the Mandela Washington Fellowship, he realized that there was a need for more in order to do more, which led him to a doctoral program and ultimately to writing this book. He went through the learning process and then wrote this book to teach young people how to learn social change effectively. This book is a product of qualitative research work for his Ph.D. dissertation.  

In chapter one, The Problem with Nigeria, Africa, you will notice that Nigeria is crossed out, coupled with the use of illustrations. Both styles are used in Okechukwu Ofili’s books, a Nigerian author who writes with sarcasm. In Ekwerike’s book, Nigeria represents Africa, as he says he is providing a holistic approach, while the context and research for this book is centered in Nigeria, the problems and processes to address those problems apply across the continent.     Continue reading “Revealing how to lead change in Africa by Africans: A review of It Takes a Village “ →

Susan Scott embodied the spirit of leadership

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The Staley School of Leadership celebrated the many contributions of Susan M. Scott earlier this year at a celebration of life event where friends and family gathered to share stories.

This week, as we prepare for our 13th annual Spirit of Leadership, we remember Susan as one of our founders and biggest cheerleaders.

The following slideshow was shown at the celebration of life this summer, helping us remember Susan and all of her joy.

A picture of Susan Scott embracing colleagues in Town Hall in the Leadership Studies Building.

Cultivating Leadership for a Thriving Future: Staley School scholars present at international conference

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Kansas State University faculty and doctoral students participated in the 25th annual International Leadership Association (ILA) Global Conference. The conference took place online Oct. 3-4, 2023, and in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Oct. 12-15.

The ILA is the largest worldwide professional community committed to leadership scholarship, practice, development, and education. Their mission is to advance leadership knowledge and practice for a better world.

The conference theme, Cultivating Leadership for a Thriving Future, speaks to the essential role leadership educators, practitioners, and researchers play in convening and holding space, fostering rich and open dialogue, and creating opportunities for mutual learning and appreciation of different perspectives and ways of being. Through this kind of leadership, we can build a future based on hope, mutual respect and the common good.

Staley School scholars participated in both the in-person and online sections of the conference. Their scholarship reflects the Staley School of Leadership’s research priorities: advancing leadership learning and development, building civic capacity, and leading change.

“The scholarship presented by K-State students and faculty reflect the kind of collaboration and innovation needed to advance leadership education in higher education and public leadership research and practice,” said Trisha Gott, Ed.D., assistant professor and associate dean of the Staley School of Leadership.

Following is a list of the presentations and their contributors: Continue reading “Cultivating Leadership for a Thriving Future: Staley School scholars present at international conference” →

What Matters to Me and Why: Kirsten Zoller

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Kirsten Zoller - What Matters to Me and Why leadership lecture series

The Staley School of Leadership invites students, staff and faculty to the What Matters to Me and Why leadership lecture featuring Kirsten Zoller, executive director of strategic initiatives, K-State Salina. The lecture will take place 12:30-1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 15, in the Leadership Studies Building Town Hall and on Zoom. Lunch from Mr. Goodcents will be provided.

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How do multiple moments across a life build purpose and identity? Zoller is a lifelong K-Stater who will share moments of purpose from her life and how that has informed her identity (so far!). The role of experimentation for the sake of growth and starting with “what could be possible” are themes that will be discussed as she challenges others to think about how they are actively engaging in defining their own identity.

This informal lunchtime series supports K-State’s Principles of Community by encouraging reflection on matters of personal values, beliefs and motivations to better understand the lives and inspirations of those who serve and shape the university.

Our series is sponsored by the Staley School of Leadership, and supported by a cross-campus planning committee.