Leadership Skills And Competenices For Extension Directors And Administrators

abstract

• The primary purpose of this study was to identify the major leadership skill areas and specific leadership competencies within each skill area needed by Extension leaders. A purposive sample of administrative heads of agriculture from 1862 and 1890 land-grant institutions was selected to participate in qualitative interviews. Seven individuals participated in long interviews (Creswell, 1998; McCracken, 1988) designed to identify leadership skills necessary to be a leader within the CSREES. Participants identified six major leadership skill areas needed by Extension leaders: human, conceptual, technical, communication, emotional intelligence, and industry knowledge skills. A total of 80 specific leadership competencies were developed and clustered under one of the six leadership skill areas.

authors

• Moore, Lori

published proceedings

• Journal of Agricultural Education

author list (cited authors)

• Moore, L. L., & Rudd, R. D.

citation count

• 15

complete list of authors

• Moore, Lori L||Rudd, Rick D

publication date

• September 2004

publisher

• American Association for Agricultural Education  Publisher

published in

• Journal of agricultural education  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.5032/jae.2004.03022

start page

• 22

end page

• 33

volume

• 45

issue

• 3

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.5032/jae.2004.03022