Defining Your Niche With The Northeast Conference’s Noreen Morris

Summary

• - What does this convention mean to you?
• - The NEC recently announced the addition of Le Moyne College. During the announcement, you mentioned there was academic, athletic and community alignment between Le Moyne and the NEC. What was the process for defining fit for this new addition?
• - How do you navigate the different institutional personalities between the NEC presidents, who are some of your key constituents?
• - How do you make an immediate impact in a meeting with a president? What are you strategies for conducting an efficient yet effective meeting with a league president? 
• - When you're on the other side of the table and have a staffer coming in to meet with you... how do you like to be prepared or prepped for a big, strategic conversation?
• - Was there ever a point in your career where you felt you had to be more of a micromanager as a leader?
• - How do you manage when members of your team need expectations communicated in different ways?
• - Is it the responsibility of the leader or the staffer to be the lead in communicating those kinds of needs?
• - How do you build in purpose to your everyday tasks? 
• - How have you carved out a niche for the NEC? How do you continually define and refine that definition and how do you tell that story?
• - How have you carved out a niche for yourself and your specific leadership style?
• - How important is it for you to continue your professional development? We sometimes think of professional development as something reserved for early-career or mid-level administrators.
• - What's an example of a way you brought your team together in college and a way you've brought your team together at the NEC?