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Creating space to recognize leadership activity during COVID-19

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In this special blog series, Leadership Communication doctoral student R.J. Youngblood considers how academic frameworks, research agendas, and the associated leadership studies literature contributes understanding and support to the exercise of leadership during the COVID-19 outbreak locally.

Our connection to space is intimately contested, negotiated, and resisted.

This connection serves to shape our understanding of self in relation to both material and conceptualized notions of space and allows us to build relationships as a result of a connection to shared purpose. We can understand exercises of leadership as deeply connected to both the physical spaces that we interact with and the conceptual spaces we create in conversation and interaction with others.

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The role of 21st century farmers in South Africa

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In this special blog series, Staley School of Leadership Studies graduate teaching assistant Mafule Moswane considers how our academic framework, research agenda, and the associated leadership studies literature contributes understanding and support the exercise of leadership during the COVID-19 outbreak locally.  

The role of 21st century farmers in South Africa: a case of Kgabo Moja and Mothupi KgopaMafule Moswane

On March 5, 2020, I visited Mary Kay Siefers’ Global Food Systems Leadership class to share about the role of 21st century farmers in South Africa. My purpose was to share my perspective about the role of farmers in South Africa who are currently involved in farming in the post-apartheid South Africa, and are leveraging 21st century technology to advance their work and mobilize others. In the conversation which I characterized as an unfolding story, I gave a juxtaposition of my story and the stories of Kgabo Moja and Mothupi Kgopa.

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Leadership, considerations for community – voices from the field

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Kaitlin Long

In this special blog series, Staley School of Leadership Studies faculty members and partners, Trish Gott, and Kait Long consider how our academic framework, research agenda, and the associated leadership studies literature contributes understanding and support the exercise of leadership during the COVID-19 outbreak locally.  

You – alumni, students, faculty, staff, and community members – play multiple roles in your communities personally and professionally. This kind of engagement has been the hallmark of how we understand and engage in leadership activity; It is what we teach about and practice. Beyond the walls of the Staley School we have always celebrated and believed that leadership embodied through actions, operationalized in day-to-day lived experiences, practiced with and in our homes and communities and situated in our evolving contexts is how we learn, develop, and grow personal, organizational, and community ability for leadership. Today, we advance considerations of and for community leadership-as-practice in a time of COVID-19 by sharing efforts from HandsOn Kansas State as they make their own progress locally.

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Social distancing during COVID-19 does not mean we abandon the activity of relational leadership

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Relational Leadership Model

In this special blog series, Staley School of Leadership Studies faculty members Brandon W. Kliewer and Trish Gott will consider how our academic framework, research agenda, and the associated leadership studies literature can contribute understanding and support the exercise of leadership during the COVID-19 outbreak.

If you’ve been in our classrooms, engaged in our programs, read our blog or our Tweets, you know the Staley School curriculum, research, programming and ethos includes the assumption that leadership is an activity done in relationship with others. We didn’t invent this – in fact, there is an extensive body of research literature that considers how leadership emerges through people’s communication patterns and interactions in various real-world contexts. (See the footnote for additional resources.)

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Apply for the Leadership Communication doctoral program

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Applications for Kansas State University’s Leadership Communication Ph.D. are now being accepted. Domestic applications are due Jan. 15, and international applications are due Jan. 1. Apply online today.

Do you want to lead change, advance communication and engage communities?

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