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Building Informal Leaders: A Study of the U.S. Army’s Command Team Spouse Development Program – Brigade Level
Type of Presentation
Shared
Session Abstract
This session describes a three-tiered research effort to evaluate the Army’s Command Team Spouse Development Program. Included will be information on the program's evolution and the study’s purpose and process.
Target Audience
Professors, Program Administrators, general students, etc. who work and live around military learners will benefit from this session. Understanding how to cultivate informal leadership and the cultural differences military spouses face in the military lifestyle can highlight many of the needs and barriers military spouse learners face today. Information from this session may help educators develop strategies, programmatic efforts, evaluation methods, and curriculum to better cultivate informal leadership programs within their own organizations.
Learning Outcomes
An overarching outcome of this informative session will be to promote awareness of alternative evaluation methods for informal leadership development programs. Current evaluation models will be discussed and strategies for new directions in evaluation methods will be shared. As a result of this session attendees will 1) acquire an understanding of the CTSDP-BDE program, 2) become familiar with evaluation methods used in this study, and 3) examine alternative strategies for evaluation and research for leadership development programs.
Session Description
Leadership development programs (such as the CTSDP-BDE) are often evaluated by certain outcomes (i.e., individual, organizational, or community). Evaluating informal leadership programs can be difficult, especially when the program is not competency based. However, identifying outcomes that lead to life effectiveness can help explain participant outcomes that otherwise fall into one of the complex and often unquantifiable domains of program evaluation. In this study I propose that part of the challenge in figuring out what makes a person effective in life – at school, home, or work in the Army as an organization lies the concept of life effectiveness, which can be directly linked to topics discussed and outcomes achieved in the CTSDP-BDE program. Therefore, instruments such as the Review of Personal Effectiveness & Locus of Control (R.O.P.E.L.O.C.) can be useful in helping to investigate the effects of personal change related to leadership development programs (such as the CTSDP-BDE).
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Thursday November 7
Primary Presenter
Ashley Gleiman, Kansas State University
Work Title
Program Coordinator