AGED 260: The Final Picture

 

Over the past 15 weeks, we have taken a journey through the world of leadership.  It has been great to read your previous blog posts and see you making connections between the theories from class and your real world experiences and beliefs!  A central theme of this course is increasing your understanding of different leadership approaches while also increasing your self-awareness.  You’ve addressed some of this in your LTA, but here’s your chance to share and learn from each other.  Enjoy this final blog reflection!

Your final blog post should address the following:

·         How are you more aware of yourself?  What do you see differently?  How are you changing?

·         How have you been able to apply what have learned about leadership?

·         What is your own philosophy of leadership?

EVERYONE should post your own blog post to your team’s blog page.

You should use written narrative for your response, but you can also supplement your post with videos, music, photography, links to relevant websites, etc.).  Draw connections to at least 3 leadership approaches discussed in class this semester to support your points. You should write at least 1 paragraph (100 words minimum) for each question; there is no maximum limit.

Blog Prompt #6 - Everyday Leadership

Check out this TED Talk from Drew Dudley on Everyday Leadership.

 

Drew Dudley closes with, “There is no world, there is only six billion understandings of it. And if you change one person’s understanding of it … you’ve changed the whole thing.”  Well, that’s pretty daunting, isn’t it?  Maybe, but it also presents a vast amount of opportunity for understanding and connection with others.  We’ve been talking in class recently about transformational leadership and servant leadership, both of which focus on the collaborative and relational aspects of leadership.  Leadership always involves others. And often times the impact of leadership is not about those grand moments with an impact on a large number of people, but rather the more significant impact comes from those seemingly small moments and gestures that make a profound impact on us.

Identify a “lollipop moment” from your life.  Think of an ordinary experience from your life where someone had a profound impact on your life and that fundamentally made your life better.  Who was this person and what was the impact on your life?  Connect your story/experience to the transformational leadership or servant leadership approaches.

Reminder:

One member of your group should post a response to your team's blog page.  You can write a narrative, post a video or other media, share links to other sources, etc. but your response must include text to show CLEAR connections between your response and class materials.

Blog Prompt #5

The Center for Creative Leadership posted this interesting blog recently: The Truth About Cats and Dogs. And Polarities.

Read their blog here: http://www.leadingeffectively.com/the-truth-about-cats-and-dogs-and-polarities/

Many of the leadership approaches we have discussed thus far in class do just this by putting leaders and followers into one category (or polarity) or another, but often not accounting for how we could be in more than one category at a time.

What experiences have you had where you or another leader were asking these cat-or-dog (either/or) kinds of questions? What was the impact of this type of leadership thinking on your group? Have you ever been part of group or worked with a leader who intentionally used the both/and thinking? If so, what was the impact?

Reminder:

One member of your group should post a response to your team's blog page. You can write a narrative, post a video or other media, share links to other sources, etc. but your response must include text to show CLEAR connections between your response and class materials.