{"id":165,"date":"2017-10-07T16:44:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T23:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/?p=165"},"modified":"2017-10-07T16:45:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T23:45:23","slug":"response-to-riggi-solinaps-survey-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/2017\/10\/07\/response-to-riggi-solinaps-survey-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Riggi Solinap&#8217;s Survey Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is my response to Riggi Solinap&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/riggisolinap\/2017\/10\/06\/result-of-survey-analysis\/\">Survey Analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In his conclusion, Solinap (2017) mentions that there are certain situations where leaders may show less of certain qualities. I completely agree with him. In Solinap&#8217;s situation, even though he considers himself friendly, sensitive, and empathetic, one person rated him neutral for these traits (2017). I had the same findings in my surveys. While I thought myself to be a sensitive and empathetic person, I was surprised to find that others rated me lowest in these two categories. While I understand that the way I perceive myself is not always the way I am perceived by others, I also wonder if sometimes it is necessary to suppress certain traits (such as sensitivity and empathy) in order to be an effective strategic leader in a group? And if so, how does this relate to servant leadership as empathy is one of the characteristics of servant leadership mentioned by Northouse (2016)?<\/p>\n<p>Another point that Solinap (2017) mentions is how self-assured he feels compared to how others see him. I had the opposite where I thought that I present as fairly self-assured, but others rated me lower than I expected in this category. At work, while I feel extremely competent in my own work as a mathematics teacher, I sometimes lack confidence when it comes to leadership roles because I am at an early stage in my career where most other teachers have more experience than me. This is an area I would like to work on.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, I agree with Solinap (2017) in that different situations call for different leadership qualities. When I am working with other teachers my age, I take on a different role than if I was working with a group of very experienced teachers. I think that leadership approaches and strategies are dynamic characteristics and I hope to continue to develop and refine my skills as a servant leader.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Northouse, P. G. (2016).\u00a0<em>Leadership: Theory and Practice<\/em>. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.<\/p>\n<p>Solinap, Riggio. (2017, October 6). Result of Survey Analysis. Retrieved from\u00a0https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/riggisolinap\/2017\/10\/06\/result-of-survey-analysis\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my response to Riggi Solinap&#8217;s Survey Analysis. In his conclusion, Solinap (2017) mentions that there are certain situations where leaders may show less of certain qualities. I completely agree with him. In Solinap&#8217;s situation, even though he considers himself friendly, sensitive, and empathetic, one person rated him neutral for these traits (2017). I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ldrs500","category-unit-2","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/ruthleong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}