{"id":66,"date":"2018-09-29T17:16:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T00:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/?p=66"},"modified":"2018-09-29T17:16:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T00:16:27","slug":"response-to-chris-vachers-activity-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/2018\/09\/29\/response-to-chris-vachers-activity-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Chris Vacher&#8217;s Activity 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the link to Chris Vacher <a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/chrisvacher\/2018\/09\/25\/ldrs-500-unit-1-learning-activity-4\/\">article<\/a> on Activity 4. I enjoyed reading his article and thought it was a really good point that he made that assigned leadership is top down, while emergent is bottom up, I also found his question very relatable and a good reflection:<\/p>\n<p><strong>As a leader, do you find yourself more comfortable when you are the assigned leader or the emergent leader?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I realized in reflecting on that question, that I am more comfortable as an assigned leader. I think the reason is that having a clear position gives me a sense of security in my role and what I can and cannot do.<\/p>\n<p>I remember when I was an emerging leader, that I always worried about over-stepping or coming across too strong to the leaders I worked with. When leadership is assigned there are clearer expectations and boundaries I seem to thrive more. When I did the\u00a0<em>Birkman<\/em>\u00a0test, I came out as having a high <em>Freedom<\/em> score, but I do need some structure or at least knowing what is expected of me. I think this is because my <em>Birkman<\/em> score on <em>Authority is\u00a0<\/em>fairly high. I generally respect authority, although I find myself often wanting to push against it. This was a really interesting question to reflect on and it made me wonder if that insecurity I have stems from a deeper issue in my life or if it is just a personality thing, like my Birkman might show. Probably a bit of both?<\/p>\n<p>I know in leadership something that makes me feel insecure and I struggle with, is when I feel disrespected by team members. This usually happens when boundaries are pushed or crossed and expectations that I clarified are not met.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question: What have you noticed makes you feel insecure as a leader?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Monica<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the link to Chris Vacher article on Activity 4. I enjoyed reading his article and thought it was a really good point that he made that assigned leadership is top down, while emergent is bottom up, I also found his question very relatable and a good reflection: As a leader, do you find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":445,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-unit-1","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/445"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/monicagrace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}