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. …
Erica, I love the leadership lesson that you articulated in your blog that love for one’s work, coupled with servant leadership principles can create emergent leaders and mentoring relationships. My experience as a leader has been similar to yours in… Continue Reading →
Rank Talk Write “Integrative Knowing and Practical Wisdom”, by Kathleen A. Cahalan In Cahalan’s article, she describes eight ways of knowing that are essential to wise practice (Ranking in parentheses at the end of each point) Situated awareness is being aware […]
I really enjoyed reading Kathleen A. Cahalan’s article, Integrative Knowing and Practical Wisdom. Mainly because it fit in with what I do as a living – a pastor. What I enjoyed most is that it really put me in my place in regards to constantly learning, having a mentor, actually practicing what to say instead …
My experience has been that skill development among pastors is typically presented as leadership theory, budget management and organizational development. Kathleen A. Cahalan’s article Integrative Knowing and Practical Wisdom (2017) presents instead the reminder that pastors are practitioners who must grow toward practical wisdom. Cahalan’s central question is presented at the end of her introduction …
In “Toward a Creative Criticality- Revisiting Critical Thinking”, Cooper (2018) articulates four main ideas: Creative criticality is the idea that critical thinking, the ability to analyze and evaluate new ideas, and creativity, the ability to produce new content and innovative… Continue Reading →