{"id":187,"date":"2018-06-02T16:04:49","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T16:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/layla11\/?p=187"},"modified":"2018-06-02T16:04:49","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T16:04:49","slug":"unit-5-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/layla11\/2018\/06\/02\/unit-5-responses\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 5, Responses"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a response to Achsah Springs’ blog\u00a0https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/achsahs-springs\/2018\/06\/01\/team-leadership-and-effectiveness\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Questions:\u00a0\u00a0Have others also experienced dysfunctional teams?\u00a0 Can you identify why?\u00a0 Have you experienced exceptional teams, and can you identify why?<\/p>\n

My response:\u00a0I have experienced dysfunctional teams or technically observed dysfunctional teams many times in my work. As a teacher, I like to assign students to teams and observe the performance of the teams. Unfortunately, there was always an absence of several characteristics or conditions that led to dysfunctional teams. I have concluded that the teams formed by students usually lack unified commitment and principled leadership. Each student thinks he or she is the most intelligent one in the team and should be the leader of the team, which makes the team hard to achieve wholeness. I think I will incorporate the knowledge of team effectiveness in my teaching content. I am not sure about how much the student could understand, remember, and apply to in the future, but it is good to raise their awareness about team effectiveness.<\/p>\n

This is a response to Kwantlen Branda’s blog\u00a0https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/kwantlenbrenda\/2018\/05\/30\/unit-5-learning-activity-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Question:\u00a0What happens though when a team falls off the rails and a new project lead is required. Can a team really ever recover from this type of situation?<\/p>\n

My response:\u00a0You really have brought up a tough situation which is hard for even the most excellent leader to go through. But we have to get ourselves ready for this kind of situation as none of us has the ability to see the future. Luckily, we are learning servant leadership now, and the method of salvation lies in the ten characteristics of a servant leader. Healing is a special and unique trait of the servant leader. It means the servant leader possesses the power of healing himself or herself and the relationship to others as well. I always believe that servant leaders are all mentally healthy individuals. Therefore, their ability of resilience must be superior than other people when facing incidents. Also, servant leaders seek to nurture their abilities to dream great dreams, which means they would view the problem from a conceptualizing perspective. Hence, it would be easier for them to accept the reality that their project has been outdated and will be replaced. The servant leaders will not restrict themselves to one project, they can understand the overarching goal and devote to other meaningful task immediately.<\/p>\n

This is a response to\u00a0Lara Lacroix’s blog\u00a0https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/awalkinthewoods\/unit-5-character-and-servant-leadership\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Questions: Do you feel like you are actively listened to in your workplace? What advice would you give your direct supervisor about how they might improve their practice of listening before embarking on a new project or assigning tasks?<\/p>\n

My response: I deem that I am well listened and understood in my workplace. My direct supervisor is very busy so that we do not have a lot chances to chat face to face. But he has invented a box hanging on the wall in our office, we could write notes to him about all kinds of things and issues. No matter how busy he is, it seems that he can always read every note wrote by us. Sometimes he will provide feedback immediately, sometimes he just keeps the things in his mind and manages to help us silently. If I am going to give him advice about listening before embarking on a new project, I will suggest him listen more to his own inner voice. I think he has invented too much time on considering other people’s perspectives and collecting information, it would be better for him to press the pause button and turn around to himself. Having his own inner serenity could also contribute to making decisions effectively. He already has the trust of both us and the higher management, now he needs to trust himself and become more steady.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a response to Achsah Springs’ blog\u00a0https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/achsahs-springs\/2018\/06\/01\/team-leadership-and-effectiveness\/ Questions:\u00a0\u00a0Have others also experienced dysfunctional teams?\u00a0 Can you identify why?\u00a0 Have you experienced exceptional teams, and can you identify why? My response:\u00a0I have experienced dysfunctional teams or technically observed dysfunctional teams many times in my work. As a teacher, I like to assign students to teams and … <\/p>\n

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