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November 2, 2018

Organizational Employee Development Plan – Unit 6, Learning Activity 3

chrisvacher LDRS 500, Leadership Competency, People Development, Unit 6

Employee development is meant to grow any organization’s key asset: people! Regardless of the industry, employees are the ones who develop and carry culture, who influence a customer’s experience, and who determine the impact and effectiveness of an organization. I work at a church which is an industry with a relatively short history when it …

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November 1, 2018

Andragogy: Leadership and Learning – Unit 6, Learning Activity 1

chrisvacher LDRS 500, Leadership Competency, People Development, Unit 6

Andragogy is meant to help understand the role of the learner’s experience in adult education. The distinctions between andragogy as education for adults and pedagogy as education for children need to be understood to help both the teacher and the student succeed. The challenges of going back to school at 41 while also working full …

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October 24, 2018

Response to Ruiz Rivera – Light From Many Lamps II: This, too, shall pass away

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Light From Many Lamps II: This, too, shall pass away Ruiz, I appreciated your thoughts on the story from Light from Many Lamps with the history of the motto, “This, too, shall pass away.” The reminder that all things in this life – good, bad and ugly – are temporary is a truth which can …

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October 24, 2018

Response to ccbeau – Light of Many Lamps – Part 2

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Light of Many Lamps – Part 2 Christina, I’m really touched by how this story in Light from Many Lamps has had such an impact in your life. It’s obvious that you have taken Arnold Bennett’s words to heart and you are evaluating your own habits and desires in light of the encouragement that the …

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October 24, 2018

Response to jsonhealer – Rank, Talk, Write – The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle

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Rev. Martin, Your post is a great summary of a book that, I will admit, I was too intimidated to tackle when I saw it on the reading list. Thank you and well done! You’ve got a great ability to distill lots of information down to a core idea and how you’ve highlighted that the …

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October 24, 2018

Response to jsonhealer – Rank, Talk, Write – The Nicomachean ethics of Aristotle

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October 24, 2018

Response to Monica Grace – Rank, Talk, Write Activity

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Monica, I chose the same article to summarize for this assignment and I’m glad to see you enjoyed it as I did. I’m also glad to see we reached similar conclusions so you’re giving me confidence about what I wrote! Like you, I’m in a ministry setting so I read your post through the lens …

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October 23, 2018

Servant Leadership Characteristics in Team Leadership – Unit 5, Learning Activity 2

chrisvacher LDRS 500, Leadership Character, Team Leadership, Unit 5

Servant leaders who are given the responsibility to lead a team need to consider how to most effectively serve and lead when working together on projects in a group. Spears’ ten characteristics (2010) can be seen as over-arching character descriptions of an effective servant leader and can also be taken as instructive directions and strategies …

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October 19, 2018

Critical Functions of Team Effectiveness – Unit 5, Learning Activity 1

chrisvacher LDRS 500, Team Leadership, Unit 5

Team leadership and the effectiveness of teams has been an area of focus for me since most of my leadership experience has been within the context of teams. Team leadership effectiveness can bring joy and pain to everyone involved! According to Northouse (2018), the two critical functions of team effectiveness are performance and development. Nadler …

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October 18, 2018

Servant Leadership – Unit 4, Learning Activity 2

chrisvacher LDRS 500, Leadership Competency, Unit 4

First introduced by Robert K. Greenleaf in 1970 as a concept, servant leadership is understood to be distinct from other leadership theories because of the priority placed by the leader on serving and developing followers. Although there is “no consensus about a definition and theoretical framework of servant leadership” (Van Dierendock, 2011, p. 1229) there …

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