{"id":349,"date":"2018-10-27T19:29:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T02:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/?p=349"},"modified":"2018-10-27T19:29:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T02:29:11","slug":"response-to-pierres-post-strategy-renewal-and-organizational-design-principles-pierres-spin-post-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/2018\/10\/27\/response-to-pierres-post-strategy-renewal-and-organizational-design-principles-pierres-spin-post-4-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Pierre&#8217;s Post: Strategy Renewal and Organizational Design Principles &#8211; Pierre&#8217;s spin (Post 4.1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The original post can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/pierreflorendo\/2018\/10\/23\/strategy-renewal-execution-and-organizational-design-principles-pierres-spin-post-4-1\/\">https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/pierreflorendo\/2018\/10\/23\/strategy-renewal-execution-and-organizational-design-principles-pierres-spin-post-4-1\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>When is it Time to Walk Away?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were desperate to keep our one customer, so our bonds tightened\u201d (Florendo, 2018C, para. 3) speaks to our ability to work hard for a goal or a leader!\u00a0 I have been in this place a few times in my teaching career and realize my super powers of loyalty and faithfulness can be my undoing. Since I am constantly applying formative assessment strategies to my own practice while instructing others (Arella, 2016), I know this strength is also an evenly balanced weakness when left unchecked.\u00a0 With your previous descriptions of career experience (Florendo, 2018A and Florendo, 2018B) as part of your developmental learning of sustainable and strategic leadership, Pierre, what measures would you recommend for ensuring you do not find yourself in this position again?\u00a0 Have you designed a rubric or framework for determining clear vision of when to step away for your own growth and health?<\/p>\n<p>Formative Assessment<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-RXYTpgvB5I?start=88&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>(Arella, 2016)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Empowerment Essentials<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I appreciate your efforts to invest and empower your employees, Pierre which you delineate in your \u201cThree Positives\u201d (Florendo C, 2018)!\u00a0 Having worked for a number of administrators with varying leadership styles, I know the value of being supported and encouraged when the pressures of the workplace rise to incapacitating levels. Do you feel it is your responsibility to empower your employees or do you help them to understand how team-building peer support for each other can be without always waiting for the administrator?\u00a0 Table 6.1 in Ulrich and Smallwood lists a few items to increase empowerment which emphasizes more initiation from team members and less from supervisors\u201d (2013, p. 150).<\/p>\n<p>Growth Mindset<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-_oqghnxBmY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>(Lisney &amp; Rankin-McCabe, 2014)<\/p>\n<p>My understanding of empowerment changed somewhat while reading Lepsinger\u2019s description of delegation and informing as core elements of real empowerment.\u00a0 \u201cDelegation involves giving people the discretion to determine how to do a task without interference\u201d (Lepsinger, 2010, p. 102).\u00a0 How does an administrator develop the ability to trust employees enough to actually carry out real tasks with the power to make decisions?\u00a0 Can you develop a Growth Mindset (Lisney &amp; Rankin-McCabe, 2014) regarding employee development while understanding that learning includes failure and mistakes?\u00a0 Ungerer, Ungerer, and Herholdt (2016) include a change-making tool which contains principles that \u201ccan be implemented regardless of the techniques you choose to enable people to implement proposed changes (p. 272).\u00a0 Is this possible to implement in your facility as you move forward with your strategic leadership changes to reduce the negatives and implement your selected corrective actions?<\/p>\n<p>You are a powerful planner, Pierre, as well as a charismatic, visionary leader!\u00a0 Your strategic development plan for yourself will accrue huge dividends for your staff as you focus on empowering others and take the time to listen longer and know them more personally.\u00a0 People will work tirelessly for leaders who invest in them and build relationships of trust.<\/p>\n<p>References<\/p>\n<p>Arella, F. (2016).\u00a0 Formative assessments: Why, when &amp; top 5 examples. [youtube video] Retrieved October 26, 2018 from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-RXYTpgvB5I\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-RXYTpgvB5I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Florendo, P. (October 2018A). Strategic leadership teams \u2013 HC1 (post 3.1) (health care).\u00a0 Retrieved October 27, 2018 from <a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/pierreflorendo\/2018\/10\/16\/strategic-leadership-teams-hc1\/\">https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/pierreflorendo\/2018\/10\/16\/strategic-leadership-teams-hc1\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Florendo, P. (2018B). Response to Samson\u2019s response to strategic leadership teams \u2013 HC1 post leader. Retrieved October 27, 2018, from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/pierreflorendo\/2018\/10\/17\/response-to-samsons-response-to-strategic-leadership-teams-hc1-post-leader\/\">https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/pierreflorendo\/2018\/10\/17\/response-to-samsons-response-to-strategic-leadership-teams-hc1-post-leader\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Florendo, P. (October 2018C). Strategy renewal, execution and organizational design principles \u2013 Pierre\u2019s spin (post 4.1). Retrieved October 26, 2018 from <a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/pierreflorendo\/2018\/10\/23\/strategy-renewal-execution-and-organizational-design-principles-pierres-spin-post-4-1\/\">https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/pierreflorendo\/2018\/10\/23\/strategy-renewal-execution-and-organizational-design-principles-pierres-spin-post-4-1\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lepsinger, R. (2010). <em>Closing the execution gap: How great leaders and their companies get results.<\/em>\u00a0 San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.<\/p>\n<p>Lisney, C. and Rankin-Mccabe, J. (September 2014).\u00a0 Growth mindset. [youtube video] Retrieved October 27, 2018 from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-_oqghnxBmY\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-_oqghnxBmY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ulrich, D. and Smallwood, N. (2013). <em>Leadership sustainability: Seven disciplines to achieve the changes great leaders know they must make.<\/em>\u00a0 New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Ungerer, M., Ungerer, G., and Herholdt, J. (2016). <em>Navigating strategic possibilities: Strategy formulation and execution practices to flourish.<\/em> [electronic book] Randburg: KR Publishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The original post can be found here: https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/pierreflorendo\/2018\/10\/23\/strategy-renewal-execution-and-organizational-design-principles-pierres-spin-post-4-1\/ When is it Time to Walk Away? \u201cWe were desperate to keep our one customer, so our bonds tightened\u201d (Florendo, 2018C, para. 3) speaks to our ability to work hard for a goal or a leader!\u00a0 I have been in this place a few times in my&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,102,96,110,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-et1-mssl","category-health-and-education","category-ldrs501","category-post-4-1","category-response-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/sally81\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}