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Response to daneen85’s post – Unit 1, Activity 4: Management and Leadership

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Response to daneen85’s post – Unit 1, Activity 4: Management and Leadership

LDRS 500-Unit 1 Activity 4: Management and Leadership Daneen, I’m impressed by your commitment to palliative care and helping others develop their skills in this area. Such a crucial role the play in helping families through difficult seasons of life. As far as your question, I have always leaned towards the side of strong, charismatic …

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LRDS 500 – Follow the Leader

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LRDS 500 – Follow the Leader

The blessing and the curse of social media abundance is every voice – positive, negative, constructive or damaging – has the opportunity to be amplified. Over the years I have been impacted in many positive and constructive ways by Paul Baloche and how he has led so well through multiple social media platforms. Paul is …

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LDRS 500 – Unit 1, Learning Activity 5

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Reading through this list of servant leader characteristics from Spears (2002, as cited by Northouse, 2018, p. 229-230) left me feeling like I now have a more complete understanding of servant leadership. To be able to summarize such an abstract concept into these ten traits was very helpful and may have been the first time …

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LDRS 500 – Unit 1, Learning Activity 4

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“Leadership that is based on occupying a position in an organization is assigned leadership… When others perceive an individual as the most influential member of a group or an organization, regardless of the individual’s title, the person is exhibiting emergent leadership” (Northouse, 2018, p. 8). Distinguishing between assigned and emergent leadership is a strong reminder …

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Response to Ryan Morrow’s post – Unit 1, Learning Activity 3

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From the original post on Ryan Morrow’s blog, this sentence caught my attention, “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.” Culturally there has been a bit of a shift away from trusting …

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LDRS 500 – Unit 1, Learning Activity 3

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“Leadership is a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal” (Northouse, 2018, p. 5). Northouse presents leadership and the development of leadership theory through this definition. Leaders are more than the sum of their traits or their own positive actions but rather help others succeed. As process, leadership …

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