Academic Leadership

Chapter 9 – Deliverer

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Developing the Deliverer

When using the Deliverer role an academic leader

will ensure that the program runs smoothly; that

courses are appropriately designed and efficiently

delivered.

When using your Deliverer role you will be:

• managing across school/departments


• managing projects


• setting clear goals and objectives for yourself and others


• organising work to be done


• productive, getting the job done


• managing your time and stress


• coordinating activities needed to deliver the programs


• motivating of others


• maintaining and providing structure


• maintaining control.

When you overuse or inappropriately use your Deliverer role there will be:

• perpetual exertion


• human exhaustion


• undiscerning regulation


• ironbound tradition


• little progress


• offensive to individuals


• lack of cohesion.

As with other roles you may need to:

• Develop the role:
  
  
  • critically review your own behaviour and its impact in different contexts over a
    period of time;
  
  
  • develop strategies to assist you in becoming better at reading the external
    environment;
  
  
  • find ways to better utilise the knowledge you have gained from previous
    experiences as an academic leader in new contexts.
  
  
  
  


• Refocus the role:
  
  
  • pay more attention to it, recognising the importance of selecting the most
    appropriate operational role for each new situation.