Original post found here: https//create.twu.ca/stellapetersldrs501/2018/11/22/stellas-strategic-competencies-blog-8-1/ Thank you for continuing to provide insights into the educational world, Stella, which reveals the intricate nature of relational decisions in every day functioning. As I read through your post a few times, I wondered how an administrator achieves balance between the need for strategic decisions for growth and the…
COMPETENCIES Becoming a Strategic Leader (Hughes, Beatty, & Dinwoodie, 2014, p. 268-269) identifies 11 competencies necessary for strategic leader development. While I am not currently in a position of formal leadership, I have worked for numerous leaders with varying styles who always influence their employees. Both effective and ineffective leadership examples have influenced my own…
Original post found here: https://create.twu.ca/seabreeze/2018/11/21/blog-8-1-strategic-competencies-at-work/ Thank you, Seabreeze, for once again posting a detailed description of strategic leadership in an educational setting with all the tangents that are required in a public school. You have revealed many of the everyday realities we teachers face as we try to deliver and education that prepares students for their…
Read the original post from Layla here: https://create.twu.ca/ldrs501/2018/11/12/cooperation-in-a-national-company-of-china-seems-effective-yet-conflicts-lie-underneath/ Reading through your post, Layla, I was struck by how easy it would be to confuse compliance with cooperation. State Grid sounds like a large company with many departments who need to coordinate with each other. Your role in training and educating employees must be critical to…
The original post which precipitated this response can be found at this link: https://create.twu.ca/robtegelberg/2018/11/12/post-7-1-conflict-and-cooperation/ Your post, Rob, was delightful yet difficult for me to read: delightful due to the revelation that a positive and supportive workplace exists in education; difficult because it widens the gap between the reality of my current work environment and the way…
Enjoy reading the original post from Jessica Sawatzky here: https://create.twu.ca/jessicalaugsawatzky/2018/11/12/hc-1-leader-post-7-1/ The description you provide of your work environment in your Week 7 post on Conflict and Cooperation creates a mental image of a smoothly operating work place, Jessica. You mention the earlier friction while developing the mission, vision, and values but since that was before your…
Education Team 1, The Extraordinary Educators, presents a favorable position of the section “what addicts can teach us about change.” The process of change involves a recognition of an existing problem, seeking strategies to change or minimize the problem, choosing the best fit strategy, and persevering through all of the challenges along the way before […]
Educational Values The Q Sort framework (Atha, 2018, para. 13) was an interesting little exercise that provided some animated conversations! The selected participants included myself, two colleagues not at my current school and two people who are not involved in the education system. Each participant group included one female and one male participant to ensure…
Political Undercurrents Political undercurrents are always part of education. We are governed by the Ministry of Education and the British Columbia Teachers’ Union (BCTF). The political nature of education filters in to site specific decisions for daily functioning so we are always made aware of the impact of local decisions. Administrators have their own career…
Collective Decision-making from Different Perspectives Differing Thinkers in a Familiar Organization AA – Deductive Thinker Adamant about strategies that are relevant Is not easily swayed to other points of view Will pursue own goals relentlessly Disengages when needing to involve others or compromise Talks a lot about own ideas AB – Deductive Thinker Logical thinker…
