Become a champion for assessing personal leadership excellence

INDIANAPOLIS — Assessment in student affairs usually focuses on students and programs. But student affairs professionals can also benefit from assessing their own personal leadership skills, according to Bridget Dewees, Ph.D., Senior Officer for Institutional Effectiveness at University of Wisconsin‐Stout. She explained how to implement a framework for this very purpose during a presentation at the Assessment Institute. She uses the Champion for Excellence Model, an applied framework grounded in the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program 's Leadership Triad, which she reimagined as a personal leadership development tool. Leadership, strategy, and customers make up the first triad, while workforce, operations, and results comprise the second triad.