Learning Activity 1~ Team Effectiveness and Leadership The story about team selection in the medical field is fascinating. Because my leadership has taken place in a closed educational setting, it hadn’t occurred to me that team selection could take place… Continue Reading →
Spears identifies ten characteristics of servant leadership. Three of these, commitment to the growth of people, building community, and the ideas of stewardship are especially important to me (Spears, 2010). I have been in leadership for long enough at the… Continue Reading →
Teams are a way of organizing a group of interdependent individuals who are working to achieve common goals (Northouse, 2016). Two critical functions of team effectiveness are performance (task accomplishment) – quality of outcomes or accomplishing goals in a quality… Continue Reading →
John Maxwell passionately describes the process a leader must go through to be successful. This process involves the leader being actively involved with the people they are leading. From the hiring process, through vision casting, working shoulder to shoulder through… Continue Reading →
Transformational leadership is a newer leadership model and has been researched in contrast to transactional leadership. The transformational leader is tasked with inspiring people to do great things to further the goals of the organization (Northouse, 2016). This leadership requires… Continue Reading →
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” (Roosevelt, 1933).These ten powerful words struck a deep sense of ease and confidence into the heart and minds of millions who listened to Roosevelt’s inaugural speech. Roosevelt did have an… Continue Reading →
Monica Grace reflects honestly in her original post about how significant trials can cause a deeper faith, a strong foundation and an unshakeable spirit, ready to share God’s goodness with others. Her motivational story should inspire any leader to know… Continue Reading →
In his post on James Gordon Gilkey, Beange challenges the leader to accept reality and keep moving. (Beange, 2018). Inevitably leaders will face hard decisions, errors in judgement, or personal challenges. Instead of being lost and frozen in the moment,… Continue Reading →
Hi Hiromi, Thank you for your summary of Bondi’s book of articles. I was intimidated to try that choice myself. I appreciate the way that you have summarized and highlighted some tenants of developing professional wisdom. I specifically like the idea… Continue Reading →
For this assignment I chose to source my own article. Laura M. Harrison wrote Transformational Leadership, Integrity, and Power (Harrison, 2011). Harrison argues that some of the thinking around transformational leadership is too altruistic because it does not recognize the… Continue Reading →