The Leadership Combine: Recent Episodes
The Leadership Combine
A blend of leadership, agriculture, community development, international development, and topics ranging across different points and perspectives. This podcast is brought to you by the Agricultural Leadership discipline at Texas Tech University.
College courses are riddled with challenges in attendance, focus, and building student/instructor relationships. Morgan Johnson, a 2023 agricultural leadership graduate from TTU, and Dr. Jason Headrick discuss this challenge from the perspective of adaptive leadership. Not only does the episode teach you about this leadership style, but it also puts it into practical application from an instructor and a student perspective. Lots to learn and give your own feedback on in this BONUS episode!
This episode discusses the differences in a group and a team and gives some insight into how these are used across the agriculture and natural resources industry. Advice and tips to help you make the most of your team experience follow!
Feedback is an integral part of personal and team growth. This episode will define feedback and provide some tips and tricks for how to understand giving and receiving feedback. The guests bring in some personal examples and it's a great conversation to help you think about feedback in the agriculture workplace- or any location.
Learn all about what to expect in Season Three of The Leadership Combine! Great workplace information, new information on projects and research, and leadership profiles for some individuals who are connected to the TTU Ag Leadership discipline.
This episode breaks down the American Dust Bowl from an agricultural perspective. The guests turn this history lesson into a reflection on communication as a means of getting the point across, helping innovate the work done in groups and teams, and discussing some important terminology for you to help your team feel more psychologically safe and more prepared to address conflict....whether it's a dust bowl of your own or a disagreement with a coworker.
This episode is about the dysfunctions of teams. The episode reviews the five dysfunctions of teams and offers strategies for you to consider in your own group and team work in the workplace, school, or community setting. Learn from some of our TTU Department of Agricultural Education & Communications graduate students.
This podcast talks about the response of agriculture to COVID and addresses communication within the industry so we can learn lessons centered around crisis, natural disasters, and other things that could impact the industry in the future.
This episode walks you through the stages of team/group development. Find out why there is typically an awkwardness when teams are developing and what this means. Find out why conflict happens early and how your understanding of this can impact your team. We discuss the stages and offer some insight into tips and tricks that can benefit your team.
This episode kicks off Season 2 and celebrates the leadership of mothers. In this episode, we feature Dr. Cindy Akers, an agricultural communications faculty member in the Department of Agricultural Education and Communications at TTU. Dr. Akers began her role as the Vice Provost for Administrative Affairs in January 2023 after serving as the Interim Dean of the Davis College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. Her daughter, Wrye Akers, is an Agricultural Leadership major. This mother/daughter duo discusses their own leadership definitions, how they view leadership in one another, and share what they have learned about leadership along their own path.
Season Two of The Leadership Combine will focus on the dynamics of being a better group or team member. In addition, our episodes will explore ways that you can be a better professional and we will celebrate the human experience of leadership, including some special episodes. This podcast is brought to you by the Agricultural Leadership discipline in the Department of Agricultural Education and Communications at Texas Tech University in the Davis College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. We invite all friends and supporters of agriculture (and our TTU students) to buckle up and join us for a great season!
There are three faculty members tied to the Agricultural Leadership program at Texas Tech University in the Department of Agricultural Education & Communications. Learn about Dr. Todd Brashears, Dr. Amy Boren-Alpizar, and Dr. Jason Headrick. We discuss the definition of ag leadership, the future of the profession, our degree programs, and the type of music we listen to. If you have ever wanted to know more about the faculty, here's your chance. Tune in to The Leadership Combine!
This episode gets into the intersection of leadership and motivation, how to motivate others, and how diversity and inclusion come into play. This is a big LEADERSHIP episode!
This episode is all about understanding emotional intelligence. The intersection of leader development and emotional intelligence has grown over the past few years. Our guests help you learn more about emotional intelligence and bring it full circle for you.
We have all been in a place that was new to us or where we didn't understand everything that was going on. This episode is about the notion of culture shock, what it is, and how we can navigate it. Our guests provide great examples and discussions to help the audience better understand culture shock.
Our guests share their own stories that brought them to study agriculture at Texas Tech University and discuss changes they are seeing in the industry and other changes for the future. To learn more about attending Texas Tech University, visit www.ttu.edu.
This episode features Justice Thompson, the USA National Miss 2021 title holder, and a proud Red Raider in the studio. She is an Ag Leadership major at Texas Tech and we are so proud of her accomplishments! We'll discuss agriculture and pageantry and the lessons the two industries might learn from one another. You don't want to miss this episode!
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This episode talks about inclusion in the agriculture industry and goes beyond talking the diversity of the people and products in the industry.
This episode focuses on racial, gender, and socioeconomic representation of the agricultural industry. Our guests talk about the contributions of diversity across the ag industry and also focus on lessons learned from their own experiences. This episode is packed full of facts and great information. Tune in!
This episode of The Leadership Combine focuses on understanding your own identity and who you are. We all have a culture and this approach helps you better refine yours. When we have a better awareness of who we are, we are better suited to be a leader in the ag industry and across our communities. Our guests will discuss the Leadership Identity Wheel and the way culture happens (and changes) across agriculture.
This episode explores the diversity of agriculture products and farmer stereotypes from coast to coast across the United States.
This is the launch episode of The Leadership Combine! This podcast will feature discussions on leadership, agriculture, community development, rural sustainability, and all points in between. Tune in to learn more about the applications of leadership and hear about the work of our agricultural leadership faculty, students, alumni, and friends of the program. This podcast is brought to you by the Agricultural Leadership discipline at Texas Tech University and the Department of Agricultural Education & Communications. Check us out on Instagram and Twitter at @TTUAgLeadership to engage!