{"id":300,"date":"2018-12-01T15:22:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T15:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/?p=300"},"modified":"2018-12-01T15:22:29","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T15:22:29","slug":"response-to-monica-grace-light-from-many-lamps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/2018\/12\/01\/response-to-monica-grace-light-from-many-lamps\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Monica Grace &#8211; Light from Many Lamps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Monica, thank you for your transparency in<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/2018\/11\/30\/light-from-many-lamps-unit-10\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> sharing your discouragement <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in a time of transition for your organization. I think sometimes as leaders we get caught up in the quest for positive and inspirational stories, encouraging others to look forward to a better future, and being the ones who \u201cput a good face on it\u201d, that we neglect to acknowledge our own fears and discouragements. Change can be hard. Leading change can be even harder. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your encouragement to others around you to see the bigger picture is important. Especially in times of change and uncertainty. The first thing that Heifetz and colleagues encourage leaders to do during times of transition, is to \u201cget on the balcony\u201d (as cited in Northouse, 2019). This means to step away from the situation, get some distance, and begin to look around at the bigger picture. By \u201cbeing on a balcony\u201d, one gets a bird\u2019s eye view as to what is going on and have a better perspective. It not only helps to see what is going on organizationally, but I believe it is important for us as leaders to help us see where <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">we <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">fit in the change process. Or where the change process fits in our lives. Inevitably, changes we go through as leaders shapes and molds us as people, and refines our character. You have aptly noted this and are embracing it. I am confident the process will mold you into a better leader. Thanks for sharing!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">References:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grace, M. (2018, November 30). Seeing the whole picture. [web log comment]. Retrieved from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/2018\/11\/30\/light-from-many-lamps-unit-10\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/2018\/11\/30\/light-from-many-lamps-unit-10\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Northouse, P. (2019). <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Leadership: Theory and practice (8th ed)<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monica, thank you for your transparency in sharing your discouragement in a time of transition for your organization. I think sometimes as leaders we get caught up in the quest for positive and inspirational stories, encouraging others to look forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,42],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-unit-10","tag-light-from-many-lamps","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/leadinnovation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}