Academic Leadership

Academic Leadership: Fundamental Building Blocks

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Activity

Step 1

List three things you will do to ensure that you are more persuasive. Your list might

include the following:

• things you need to learn


• strategies you will use to improve your credibility


• reward systems you will implement.
  
  
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Step 2

Think of something you would really like to achieve as an Academic Coordinator in the

next year which will require that you persuade others to do as you want. Make a plan

which includes consideration of the following questions:

What do you want to achieve?

Why? What evidence is there that this is the right thing to do?

Who are the key players?

What do you know about them?