Jason, great blog post! I appreciated your thoughts and how you applied them to your context of Christian ministry. I also work in ministry and really related to your question of: How do you feel when you think about adding value to the lives of others and why? I feel very privileged when I think […]
Daniel, thank you for your post on activity 1, was really well summarized and the question you posed got me thinking about my organization and how they apply ethical leadership. The question Daniel posed was: “Through reading the material and watching the video, does your organization have any of these “focuses” in place? What is […]
Implications & Lessons from Wang, Oh, Courtright & Colbert’s Article Wang, Oh, Courtright & Colbert (2011) produced an article of a meta-analysis of the relationship of transformational leadership on follower individual performance in three areas: 1) task performance, 2) contextual performance and 3) team and organizational performance (pp.230-233). Wang et al. (2011) found that “transformational leadership is positively […]
According to Northouse (2018), “the word ethics has its roots in the Greek word ethos, which translates to “customs,” “conduct,” or “character” ” (p. 336). Ethics is concerned with both what is underneath the surface of decisions, such as motivations and intentions, but also for how these characteristics effect others (Northouse, 2018, p. 336). Northouse […]
Sarah, wow, thank you so much for your refreshing and challenging post about Confucius’ statement, “What you do not wish done to yourself, do not do to others.” Your application of this statement to leadership was brilliant; that being a leader means proactively and respectfully giving constructive feedback, even when it is difficult. Currently, I have […]
Norm, thank you for your post on Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address. I appreciated your perspective on this reading and the six leadership traits you outlined that were revealed in Lincoln’s speech. I related to your questions regarding leadership in the church context versus other contexts, as I work in a parachurch setting. I fully […]
I found the article by Kandampully et al. (2016) incredibly insightful and applicable to my work context. Though I work in Christian ministry at a university campus, not in the hospitality field, I learned many relevant lessons from the article. I will outline one of the applicable points discussed in the article and then give a […]
This week I had the privilege of having a conversation with Ryan and learning about him personally and his role as a principal at a Christian school in Chilliwack. Ryan became a principal fairly young in his career, about 10 years ago and he mentioned it took him some time to really feel “legitimate” as […]
“Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit–and man is his own gardener” (Watson, 1951, p. 170). I appreciated James Lane Allen’s excerpt found on pages 169-174. Allen drew a powerful comparison between the human mind and a garden; by using the metaphors of plants, seeds and soil and relating it to the mind […]
According to the Unit 6 Notes (2018), “Andragogy is the art and science of helping adults learn.” The concept of adult education is not something I have thought about extensively, though my ministry role does involve it, as I work with university students or “emerging adults.” This concept relates most to me in the context […]
