{"id":115,"date":"2018-09-25T06:20:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T10:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/?p=115"},"modified":"2018-10-03T06:50:09","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T10:50:09","slug":"response-to-ryan-morrows-post-unit-1-learning-activity-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/2018\/09\/25\/response-to-ryan-morrows-post-unit-1-learning-activity-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Ryan Morrow: Unit 1, Learning Activity 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"SAsDSJvqKL\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/2018\/09\/25\/blog-post-one\/\">Blog Post One<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Blog Post One&#8221; &#8212; Ryan Morrow\" src=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/2018\/09\/25\/blog-post-one\/embed\/#?secret=7Br5IOs5PP#?secret=SAsDSJvqKL\" data-secret=\"SAsDSJvqKL\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/principalmorrow\/2018\/09\/25\/blog-post-one\/\">original post<\/a> on Ryan Morrow&#8217;s blog, this sentence caught my attention, &#8220;While a designated leader is crucial, the idea of process allows for members of the group who are followers to take ownership of the common goal and contribute to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Culturally there has been a bit of a shift away from trusting and following assigned leaders so I really appreciate the reminder that with good leadership the opportunity is created for followers to gain ownership within the process.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan, your question of how to respond to an individual\u00a0who is no longer working toward the common goal is a good one. I have found the most challenging aspect of leadership is leading myself well, including having the courage to have hard discussions when I know they must be had.<\/p>\n<p>Tough conversations where expectations can be clarified and everyone is able to understand how they are no longer helping the group win become a crucial tool in a leader&#8217;s skill set. Those conversations are not fun and not easy but the responsibility of leadership sometimes requires a leader to step up in this way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog Post One From the original post on Ryan Morrow&#8217;s blog, this sentence caught my attention, &#8220;While a designated leader is crucial, the idea of process allows for members of the group who are followers to take ownership of the common goal and contribute to it.&#8221; Culturally there has been a bit of a shift &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/2018\/09\/25\/response-to-ryan-morrows-post-unit-1-learning-activity-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Response to Ryan Morrow: Unit 1, Learning Activity 3&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,41,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-relationships-collaboration","category-unit-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}