Kansas State University

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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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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