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Unit 10 –
Part A The initial step to determining if I can trust any research that I am reading is to ascertain if the article is peer reviewed. At that point there is already a level of trust established as I know that the published work has undergone scrutiny by a peer group that understands research and […]
Unit 8 – Evaluation of “A Problem in My Profession”
Evaluation of podcast from https://create.twu.ca/awalkinthewoods/unit-8/ As I have come to expect from the author of “A Walk in the Woods”, my overall impression of this presentation is excellent. The action research plan exceeds the expectations as outlined and is very well developed and articulated. The project focuses on a real problem in practice and is […]
Leadership Inventories
In order to be an effective leader, it is always very helpful to pause, reflect, and take an inventory of one’s skills and effectiveness. These leadership questionnaires were useful tools with which to do this and provided a well rounded […]
Servant Leadership
Although servant leadership seems contradictory and challenges our traditional beliefs about leadership, it is an approach that offers a unique perspective. Servant leadership focuses on the behaviors that leaders should exhibit to put followers first and to support follower’s personal development. It is concerned with how leaders treat followers. Principles of servant leadership which in […]
ASSIGNED AND EMERGENT LEADERSHIP
Everyone has to be a leader at any corner of their life to succeed in the life or to travel out of the comfort zone. As per Northouse, Some people are leaders because of their formal position in an organization, whereas others are leaders because of the way other group members respond to them. These […]
Defining Leadership
Northouse defines leadership as “a complex process having multiple dimensions” (p.1) and a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal” (p. 5). There are few components of leadership which actually makes a leader. They are, process, power, influence, group context and goal attainment. As mentioned above, Leadership is a […]
Malala Yousafzai, A Leader I follow
“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful” is the inspirational words of Malala Yousafzai, an educational activist and the youngest honorary Nobel Peace Prize winner,2014 , who believes, “ One child, One teacher, One book and One pen can change the world. Education is the only solution.” And I am proud […]
Sound Effects Story
This exercise required a lot of trial and error and redoing steps (and my daughter’s help). I downloaded audacity to my iPhone and recorded some sounds in my factory. There’s a lot of machinery and lift trucks moving around, so it’s a noisy place. I also downloaded a Back-up_beeper sound from Wikipedia since that was once …
Tracking the Trackers
I hadn’t ever heard of trackers so this exercise was informative. I liked the visual graph that Lightbeam provides. I thought that only the website I visited kept data, not that third party websites also collected data! Overall, I visited 14 websites on my work computer since September 19, but in reality was tracked by …