Hi Pierre, I appreciate your response to my post, as found here. I believe there are two main factors to the growth in my school: the housing boom and the new curriculum. The year before these two things happened, we were working on a bare bones budget and wondering how long we could hold out. …
Stella’s Strategic Competencies || Blog 8.1 Hi Stella, Thank you for your post, and for sharing your ideas for improving your strategic leadership practice. I applaud you and your organization in achieving a 50% growth rate over two years. That is amazing! I see you recognize the challenges in rapid growth, and I believe […]
Blog 8.1 Response to Marcelo Contextualizing Thank you Marcelo for your reflective post on contextualizing. You start off by asking a very good question “How can these leadership strategies relate to me in a third world country, working as a principal in one of the most impoverished states in Paraguay?” (Warkentin, 2018). Marcelo, I found …
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Sadie’s post is here: https://create.twu.ca/ldrs501/2018/11/22/5724/ Hello Sadie, Thank you for your post. I agree with the principles you have chosen for your organization, specifically the ones where you catch someone doing something right and creating a supportive environment (Thompson, 2018). At the end of your post, you discussed cooperation and competition (Thompson, 2018, para. 11). Ungerger, […]
Kunal’s original post can be found here: https://create.twu.ca/ldrs501/2018/11/20/strategic-leadership-competencies/ Hello Kunal, Thank you for your post. I find myself agreeing with you on some points yet wanting to seek clarification on some of your other points. Samson has provided an excellent response to your point of self-management, located here: https://create.twu.ca/chiefanalyzerofthings/2018/11/22/the-importance-of-building-personal-competency-for-success/, so I will not touch on that […]
Thank you so much, Palak for sharing your experience. Your examples with the competencies justify it clearly and appropriately. Being a health worker, I also agree with clarifying assumptions and priorities. It is crucial to prioritize every aspect and the work assignments to help smoothly run the organization. As stated in times of India by […]
Ungerer, Ungerer, and Herholdt (2016, p.34) cite the story of a Zen master teaching a man about the importance of “emptying the cup” to learn something new. LDRS 501 course materials provide us with new ideas and new ways of implementing strategic leadership. Some of the material has been immediately useful, while other material may […]
Post 8 Strategic Leadership Competencies Detail how you will incorporate these competencies into your organizational practices and why. Galbraith’s discussion on synergy was enlightening (2014, p255-259). I have heard the word synergy mentioned in jest as a word managers throw around that has little true meaning. Understanding Galbraith’s example of United Technologies revealed that synergy […]
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…
To Implement or not to Implement, that is the Question…. This week’s readings focus on competencies a strategic leader can implement to improve their practice. The following blog articulates some ways to inspire strategic leadership praxis in my organization. Integrate leader and manager roles! Lepsinger (2010) purports “It appears that organizations that are better at …
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