As I reflected upon my experience teaching English to adult seminary students in Haiti, I identified three of Knowles’ assumptions about Androgogy cited in the Unit 6 notes (Leadership 500, n.d.). The three assumptions are: adults are mostly driven by motivation; an adult is more problem- than subject-centered in learning; adults move towards self-direction and away …
Sam Walter Foss was an editor, humorist and poet (Foss, 1979) who was inspired to write a poem after encountering a kind old man who shared openly with anyone who passed by his house by the side of the road. As I read the first stanza of his poem below, There are hermit souls that …
“my identity as a person shouldn’t be defined by a single goal”. I think that was well said in your Light from Many Lamps II post. When I was younger, my identify was tied to many goals that I had set for myself. Unfortunately many of my goals were not realized and I underwent a …
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papagena163’s post raised a good point about servant-leaders needing to heal themselves as well as their followers. As I was reading, I was reminded of a post by Dawn that I had previously read. I reflected on the fact that it is easy to serve others when they appreciate your efforts, but it is much more difficult to …
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Georgeena, In response to the question in your post about whether I have seen a shift from traditional leadership to servant leadership in my field, I would say yes. As financial constraints have increased and resources have become less and less available over the years, I have indeed seen more of a shift towards servant …
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When coordinating a group project in an organization, team leaders should function according to the Diamond Model for Practicing Servant-Leadership by Page & Wong (2000) and rotate between the roles of leader, team member, and servant. According to the model, the team leader first stands in the role of leader to communicate a clear, elevating …
Two critical functions of team effectiveness are performance (being able to accomplish high-quality tasks) and development (being able to work effectively and stay cohesive) (Northouse, 2016). Larson and Lafasto’s eight characteristics of excellent teams (as cited in Northouse, 2016, p. 369) are: a clear, elevating goal, results-driven structure, competent team members, unified commitment, collaborative climate, …
B, I really appreciated your message about the value of time management in your recent post. It reminded me once again about the importance of our thoughts and how they impact everything that we do, including how we use our time. The bible mentions that we are what we think (Proverbs 23:7). I have come …
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Daniel you made an interesting point when you compared psychodynamic emotional intelligence to that of servant leadership in your blog post: There is a difference between emotional intelligence and servant leadership’s awareness. Mainly that emotional intelligence focuses on looking at and understanding the follower’s emotions and then harnessing those so that the follower can become …
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I feel that Ms Barrett demonstrated exceptionally well the approach to psychodynamic leadership that you defined in your blog post. Just by listening to her you could FEEL the passion that she had for serving others and it motivated everything that she did. She believed 100% in modelling the golden rule and this is evident …
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