“Leadership is influence nothing more and nothing less” (Maxwell, 2007, p. 11).

If leadership is influence, then as adjunct faculty members how can we build our influence in the classroom? The easiest way to describe this is by building our personal brand. Our brand has values and beliefs and leads us in all that do. However, many of us go around not understanding what that brand is, and therefore, we get lost, and our influence diminishes. There are four ways we can build our classroom…