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Turning Teams of Champions into Championship Teams: A Thematic Analysis of Identity Entrepreneurship in College Football
Get PDFIdentity entrepreneurship, a leader’s active construction of a shared team identity, has become a pertinent research topic in sports leadership (Slater et al., 2015; Steffens et al., 2018) In line with social identity theory and the social identity approach to sports, recent research suggests that identity entrepreneurship is how leaders have the capacity to turn “teams of champions into championship teams” (Fransen, et al., 2015b, p. 98; Rees et al. 2015). This study was conducted to examine the difference in how the head coach of a championship team and the head coach of a non-championship team constructed social identity over the course of a college football season. A thematic analysis of two head coaches (Nick Saban and Butch Jones) revealed five higher- order themes indicating patterns of communication related to identity entrepreneurship: (1) defining what it means to be “one of us”, (2) casting vision, (3) strengthening “us”, (4) confidence expression, and (5) performance attributions. Similarities and differences between coaches within each theme are explained, providing insight into the difference between identity entrepreneurship on championship and non-championship teams. These findings have implications for coaches who aim build and lead championship teams
What\u27s In a Story? The Impact of Data Storytelling On Persuasion
Get PDFPeople tell stories to understand the world around them. Life experience fills us with information and knowledge that we store, retrieve, and communicate to inform and persuade decision-making. And this persuasive process is sometimes driven more by emotion than logic. Telling stories allows us to connect emotionally and better persuade others to help them make informed decisions. For business owners, storytelling is essential to communicate with customers, employees, and investors in a way that data and facts alone cannot. This dissertation investigates the relationship between the use of narrative as a construct of data-driven storytelling and its impact on the persuasive effect of data-driven analysis. This research utilizes the Narrative Paradigm theory and Elaboration Likelihood model to measure the impact of narratives, in combination with data and data visualizations, and an individual\u27s need for cognition to measure the persuasive impact of storytelling and narrative in communicating data-driven insights
Interview with Rick Bommelje
Get PDFRichard (Rick) Bommelje has served Rollins as a staff member, administrator, and tenured faculty member for nearly five decades. He is a proud Rollins alumnus three times: from the School of Continuing Education (predecessor to the Holt School) with a B.S. in Business Administration; the Crummer Graduate School with a M.S. in Management; and the Education Department with the Ed.S. in Educational Administration. Rick earned his Ed.D. in Educational Administration from the University of Central Florida.
Born in Rochester, New York, he relocated to Orlando in 1966 after short stays in Dallas, Texas and Louisville, Kentucky during high school. Rick is a Vietnam Veteran (U.S. Army) and spent a year each in Vietnam and Thailand. He met his wife, Quin, in Thailand and they recently celebrated their 50th Anniversary. Quin, a World & United States champion ballroom dancer, began dancing at the age of 60. She and her dance partner appeared on America\u27s Got Talent Season 13 in 2018 and won the Golden Buzzer. Over 32 million people have viewed this performance on YouTube. She performed at the premier Hollywood Dolby Theater in the live show in front of 18 million viewers.
Rick has spent his entire Rollins career in continuing education. This has included serving in a variety of roles including Assistant to the Dean, Associate Director, and Associate Dean, and he was the founding Director of the Center for Lifelong Education at Rollins. He began teaching as an adjunct in 1980, was invited to join the faculty as a Visiting Associate Professor in 1997, and shortly thereafter was offered a tenure track position in the Department of Communication teaching courses in the areas of leadership and listening. He humbly states that he is privileged to teach in the two main areas he personally needs the most help in. Rick has been blessed to have learned with thousands who have taught him how to listen and lead better
Why the South Demands Corrected Textbooks
No full textIn 1919 the United Confederate Veterans created a committee with the goal of influencing education to promote a version of history that would look back kindly on the Confederacy. This group, the Rutherford committee, focused its efforts on public education and newly formed state textbook commissions.
The letter included in this artist\u27s book is a facsimile of one the committee sent to education institutions and textbook-choosing commissions around 1920. In an effort to rid public schools of textbooks that were critical of the Confederacy, this letter was paired with a pamphlet with instructions to reject any textbook that didn\u27t contain \u27truths of Confederate history.\u27 Altered facsimiles of this pamphlet and its successor are also included in this book.
Now, students are required to take a year of Alabama history in fourth grade. Textbooks selected for this course have put forth white-washed versions of history. For this artist\u27s book, pages from the textbook used by the artist as a student were selected and printed as altered facsimiles. These textbook spreads show the persisting influence of Lost Cause mythology in education and the insidious \u27truths\u27 it relies on. — Contoura Presshttps://scholarship.rollins.edu/book_arts/1128/thumbnail.jp
