Academic Leadership

Academic Leadership: Fundamental Building Blocks

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Activity

Step 1

Think about the various ways in which you receive information. How well do you

think you manage the information flow?

Step 2

Draw up a daily and weekly schedule that allows space each day, around

teaching and other commitments, for you to:

TRAF

Act

Think and reflect

Step 3

Implement a trial of your system for a month. Refine it to suit your particular needs and

context. Think about the following as you evaluate your personal system:

Do you have the balance of time spent on the various activities right?

If it doesn’t seem to be working, where are you spending too much time?

Is the problem that you are spending too much time reviewing and not enough acting?

Or are you allowing yourself to be easily distracted?

Have you turned your email off?

Reference

Quinn, R. E., Faerman, S. R., Thompson, M. P., McGrath, M. R., & St. Clair, L. S. (2007).

Becoming a master manager: A competing values approach (4th ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.