Journal of Leadership Education: Volume 19 Issue 4 , Open Access

ASSESSING INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE IN INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP COURSES: Developing the Global Leader

Josh P. Armstrong

The leaders of the future will have to lead with intercultural competence and with the ability to facilitate this development of competence in others. The development of skills in…

ECO-LEADERSHIP AMONG COUNTY 4-H ORGANIZATIONS: Relationship to Programmatic Success and Best Practices for Eco-Leaders

D. Adam Cletzer, Eric K. Kaufman

Our understanding of leaders and the role they play in organizations and society is changing, which has important implications for leadership education. At the turn of the…

WHAT THE BEST LEADERSHIP EDUCATORS DO: A Sequential Explanatory Mixed Methods Study of Instructional and Assessment Strategy Use in Leadership Education

Daniel M. Jenkins

The purpose of this mixed methods sequential explanatory study was to identify the best pedagogical practices of leadership educators by obtaining quantitative data from surveying…

ELEVATING LATINA VOICES OF LEADERSHIP: Latina Student Leaders’ Beliefs, Approaches, and Influences to Leadership

Paige Haber-Curran, Nicholas Tapia-Fuselier

There is a recent call for and emergence of leadership research that purposefully centers students’ social identities and lived experiences in order to gain more nuanced…

LEADING COLLABORATIVE CHANGE IN AN EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION

Eric. K. Kaufman, Shreya Mitra, James C. Anderson, Jama S. Coartney, Carol S. Cash

Organizations can effectively apply a variety of strategies for leading and accelerating desired change. As a practical illustration, this article evaluates an organizational…

EXPLORING ALUMNI VALUATION OF AN UNDERGRADUATE LEADERSHIP PROGRAM

John Egan, Juliann Sergi McBrayer, Steven Tolman, Pamela Wells

Limited research exists that assesses the transfer of leadership learning from an undergraduate leadership program into alumni work environments. This study explored alumni’…

ENRICHING COLLEGE STUDENTS’ LEADERSHIP EFFICACY

Krista M. Soria, Karl Kaste, Kelly M. Diekemper, Milpha Blamo, Maddie R. Belrose, G. Blue Brazelton

The purpose of this study was to examine whether undergraduates’ participation in 12 different leadership trainings, workshops, conferences, or programs was associated with…

THE LEADERSHIP LABORATORY: A leadership practice field involving peer mentors in a first-year, project-based class

Adam Watkins

Scholars of leadership education have recently called for more “practice fields” that combine leadership experience with deliberate instruction, reflection, and feedback. The…

USING IMPROVISATION TO DEVELOP LEADERSHIP FOR A VOLATILE WORLD

Ronald L. Dufresne

Many scholars have noted the critical skills needed for leaders in the face of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA). These skills include self-awareness…

BUILDING LEADERSHIP SKILLS THROUGH HIGH-IMPACT EXPERIENCES

F. Scott Andreu, Kenneth M. Sweet, Douglas H. Carter

The Organizational Leadership class is a staple in most undergraduate and graduate management curricula. Faculty teaching leadership courses recognize the need for experiential…

A NEW CONCEPTUAL MODEL: Integrating Ethical Leadership into the Assess, Challenge and Support (ACS) Model of Leader Development

Shannon Brown, Michael Chikeleze

Our paper discusses the need for continued focus on ethical leadership and the importance and benefits of ethical leadership development. We propose integrating ethical leadership…

LEADERSHIP STUDIES IN THE CROSS ROADS

Chris Francovich

This paper describes a collaborative curriculum project integrating 4 leadership programs at three academic levels. What emerged from this effort was a theoretical model…

TEACHING SERVANT LEADERSHIP: Ansar Burney and Child Camel Jockeys

Martinella Dryburgh

The purpose of this paper is to provide leadership studies educators with a resource to examine the work of a leader who displays characteristics of servant leadership. The lesson…

ELEVATING LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES TO MEET EMERGING NEEDS

Julie A. Chesley, Terri Egan, Hannah E. Jones

The changing landscape that leaders face demands an evolution of leadership development that not only builds skills but also grows a leader’s capacity to effectively respond to…

EXAMINING A CHAIN REACTION OF LIES: Using Chernobyl (Miniseries) to Teach Ethical Leadership

Ada T. Cenkci

Classroom leadership instruction can be monotonous at times, especially for undergraduate students, who may not have extensive experiences to connect course content to “real…