Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn: A Collaborative Syllabus for Higher Education Leadership book cover with bright geometric shapes in background

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doi.org/10.36284/celelon.oa11

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As a seasoned  leader in both US and UK institutions, Grabill identifies a key distinction between management and leadership. To cultivate leadership, Grabill identifies some key relational and dispositional complexities of leadership: “kindness,” along with its attendant behavior, “giving,” theorizing the latter both as a way of leading and a way of learning to lead.  

Discussion Questions

Grabill’s focus on dispositions highlights a critical part of leadership. As you consider your own leadership identity, what dispositions do you feel you bring to the role? How might they be useful—and what changes might you need to make to them, if any?