Learning Activity 1 – Team Leadership I read your post with interest because of your frequent references to a compelling purpose in your workplace. Your references to a supportive organization you worked in and your expressed concern that you received feedback rarely from leadership. I appreciate your succinct summation of the eight characteristics of team …
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Emotional intelligence is “. . . the ability to perceive and express emotions, to use emotions to facilitate thinking, to understand reason with emotions and to effectively manage emotions within oneself in relationship with others” (Northouse, 2019, pg. 28). “Self-awareness” refers to the personal insights of the leader (Northouse, 2019, pg. 202). In a chapter …
Transformation leadership (Northouse, 2019, pg. 161) is one of the eight leadership trends that Northouse identifies from the last 120 years (Northouse, 2019, pgs. 2-5). Is transformational leadership simply another trend or popular research topic? Transformational leadership will stand the test of time because it has one strong distinctive. Unlike other styles of leadership, the …
The essay I selected from Light From Many Lamps is a piece on James Gordon Gilkey a teacher, pastor and chaplain (1988). He discusses bereavement and the necessity of facing and accepting that a loss is the first stem to manage treatment. My take away lesson on leadership from this essay resonated in the bigger …
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Response to Norm Benge – Rank, Think, Write Wow! Thank you for your great critique of my post. You asked: “… what mechanism [would the] employer use to teach and mentor employees to think for themselves while also upholding business standards?” For instance, my business is in manufacturing so we are always developing new products and …
Learning Activity 2 What I particularly liked about your summary is Cooper’s contention that creative criticality helps “produce lifelong learners who are capable of creating new ideas that have been evaluated through critical thinking.” I like this idea because the process of creative criticality is important in and of itself, but the fact that it …
Unit 3 – Rank, Talk, Write In response to your question, “Is this all learned or can some of these traits come naturally as a church leader?”, I believe all Christians have been given one or more permanent spiritual gifts. The pastor with the spiritual gift of administration/leadership may have a different career trajectory than …
As a business owner, I am always looking for ways to improve my workplace. Gino and Staats’ article, Developing Employees Who Think for Themselves is particularly relevant to my leadership area (2015). The article focuses on three things employers can do to help their employees use critical thinking in their position: Process, Identity and Time. …
The Skills Inventory indicated I was the weakest on the conceptual and had stronger and equal technical and human skills. Before taking this survey, I felt I was very good at concrete ideas, not abstract ideas so this was not surprising. I was stronger and more balanced between technical and human skills. On the Style …
Abraham Lincoln: Without Divine Assistance, I Cannot Success; With It I Cannot fail The story begins with the departure of Abraham Lincoln at the railway station from his home of 25 years on his way to Washington, D.C. to be President. While hundreds of people came to send him off, neither his wife or children …
