Norm, I appreciated your blog on activity 3. In his post, Norm talks about the Gino and Staats article, Developing Employees Who Think for Themselves. He points out that the article focuses on three things employers can do to help employees use critical thinking: process, identity and time (Gino & Staats, 2015). I especially appreciated what was written […]
I chose the article by Cahalan (2017) on Integrative Knowing and Practical Wisdom because I studied theology in my undergrad and currently work in a ministry setting. This article was well written, insightful and I found myself tracing my steps of development as a minister through her descriptions. Cahalan starts off by illustrating two different […]
Thank you JGarland for your “Light from Many Lamps” post on the reading in Part 2 on Abraham Lincoln (Watson, 1951, pp. 68-71). It was really well written and well referenced! I was struck by two things that JGarland pointed out about Lincoln through this post: His strong emotions/sensitivity, coupled with mental toughness. His humility, coupled with […]
I chose John Henry Newman’s “Lead, Kindly Light…the Night is Dark, and I am Far from Home” in Part 2 for this assignment (Watson, 1951, p. 39-44). The leadership lesson I took from this reading was: leaders who experience trials can grow a greater faith and therefore a greater impact on the lives of others. […]
I really appreciated Daniel’s blog post on the story “Seneca” in Light from Many Lamps. I can resonate with the story and also Daniel’s comment on God knowing what is best for us and sometimes how it causes us to step outside of our comfort zone. Recently, as a leader I was faced with a […]
Overall I found these three assessments enlightening, encouraging and helpful! Northouse (2018) provides definitions of the leadership approaches that these assessments are based in: 1) Trait: focused on personality characteristics of the leader 2) Skills: focused on the leader’s capabilities 3) Behavioural: focused on what leaders do and how they behave (p. 73). Trait Approach (LTQ) […]
I tried commenting on Daniel’s blog post and it was not showing up, so here’s a post with my comment: Daniel, I really appreciate your post on Danielle Strickland, I found it very well written, insightful and encouraging. It encouraged me to hear your awareness on issues women face in ministry and leadership. I also […]
There are a several opinion leaders I admire and in doing this assignment, I realized I actually do not follow many of them on social media, which is something that I would like to do after finishing this assignment! When it comes to social media, I am mostly on Instagram and Facebook, but there is […]
Here is the link to Chris Vacher article on Activity 4. I enjoyed reading his article and thought it was a really good point that he made that assigned leadership is top down, while emergent is bottom up, I also found his question very relatable and a good reflection: As a leader, do you find […]
Three principles of Servant Leadership I want to highlight are: Healing, Persuasion and Building Community (Spears, 2002, pp.1-16). Healing The characteristic of Healing means to “care about the personal well-being of the followers” (Spears, 2002, pp.1-16). An example of this, from my experience, comes out of recognizing where the person is coming from and their past experiences. There […]
