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OBTS Teaching Society for Management Educators

 Announces the next in its ongoing series of professional development

webinars 

Teaching and Learning in Leaderful Harmony

A live, interactive video conversation with

Joseph A. Raelin

Asa S. Knowles Chair of Practice-Oriented Education

Northeastern University

College of Business Administration

Tuesday, 25 May 2010

1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EDT

UTC/GMT -4

Sign up for this free webinar at: http://www.obtc.org/webinars. We will reserve your space and send you a reminder e-mail a few days before the session.

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We are beginning to acknowledge that leadership may not reside within the minds and voices of individual actors, but rather within the music of activity – that is, within the everyday practices of people as they engage together in useful work.  The advantage of adopting this approach is that when we are able to understand and reflect collectively on our actions, we can reconstruct our practices on behalf of our mutual interests.  This music of activity can be even more melodious when we lead together as in jazz – all together and at the same time.

But how do we teach in a way that prepares our students and participants for leadership practice along leaderful lines?  Perhaps the question boils down to what we believe is constituted by learning.  Is it achieved, as in the familiar banking metaphor, when knowledge is transferred from one mind – typically the teacher's – to another – the student's?  If so, then we should teach in the familiar corporate, hierarchical fashion, namely, top-down. 

But if we believe that learning occurs best in the midst of practice when knowledge evolves as an interactive contention among a community of inquirers, then we may experience a harmony between leaderful practice and teaching, and the wall between teaching and learning can begin tumbling down. 

In this webinar, come join Bradford holder, Joe Raelin, as he engages in a dialogue on leaderful development.  Joe will attempt to make the case that the conventional role of teaching as that of imparting knowledge can make room for the more dynamic leaderful process of facilitating learning.

Joe Raelin is an international authority in work-based learning and collaborative leadership development.  He holds the Asa S. Knowles Chair of Practice-Oriented Education at Northeastern University's College of Business Administration and was formerly Professor of Management at the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College.  His research has centered on human resource development, focusing in particular on executive education through the use of action learning.  Among his books are:  The Clash of Cultures:  Managers Managing Professionals, considered now to be a classic in the field of professionals and bureaucracy (Harvard Business School Press, 1991), the latest edition of Work-Based Learning: Bridging Knowledge and Action in the Workplace (Jossey-Bass, 2008), Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone (Berrett-Koehler, 2003), and now to accompany the latter, The Leaderful Fieldbook: Strategies for Developing Leadership in Everyone (Nicholas-Brealey, 2010).  As many attending the webinar may now be aware, Joe was recently named the recipient of the 2010 David Bradford Outstanding Educator Award from the OBTS Teaching Society for Management Educators.

OBTS Webinar Series connects prominent management scholars with colleagues in a technology-mediated format that can serve many purposes.  Not only will we learn more about these scholars' work and have the opportunity to discuss issues, we also may make new connections among our colleagues that can lead to future study groups, research initiatives and other professional development activities. In planning the series, we thought that not only learning more about what people do would be important but also how they view the challenges for the future.  We are very pleased that Joe Raelin will be working with us.  And conversations can continue at OBTC 2010 at The University of New Mexico whose theme is Engaging Difference.

We look forward to you joining us on Tuesday, 25 May, 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EDT.  Again, please sign up at:  http://www.obtc.org/webinars 

Webinar Series Coordinator Joan Weiner, weinerjl@drexel.edu, 215 895-1797.

Webinar Moderator David Fearon, fearon@ccsu.edu, 860 832 3280.

The OBTS webinar connection is co-sponsored by Drexel University's Lebow College of Business, Center for Teaching Excellence.