Interpersonal skills

group activities and team projects students can have self-reflection on how well they put input into the work. Teachers can also reflect of what works with groups and what kind of roles the students excel at. I also learned and will implement team project processing forms. The forms are filled out by each team member and they determine how well they and their team worked together. It can also have the students come up with ways that the team can work better next time. It allows each student to…

Final Reflection Review During the duration of this course I have received numerous amounts of information related to how the brain learns and instructional methods that increase the brain’s ability to absorb information. As an educator, it is important that the instructor is fluent in the subject area in which they instruct students. In order to become an effective educator one must indulge themselves in material related to the subject area through developing a clear understanding of the…

Introduction Dwight D Eisenhower once said, "The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it," is my philosophy on how I like to lead my people. For both my military and police career, I use this mentality when directing those who work for me. I have personally seen the results of my employees doing things because they want to do it and not because it's a requirement of their job. The satisfaction of teaching your folks and watching them grow throughout…

Patrick Lencioni’s book, “The Ideal Team Player”, is a book that places emphasis on the qualities of being a team player. In order to be recognized as a team player, one must possess three essential virtues including humbleness, hunger, and smart. In the beginning, the book includes the fable of a leader, CEO Jeff Shanely, who is in distressed need to save his uncle’s company by cracking the codes of virtues and rebuilding the organizational culture. In the beginning, Lencioni tells how a…

various institutions in leadership positions, I have seen myself emerge to those positions through my hard work and skills rather than just having been assigned to it. Various factors like experience, training, mentorship, conscious practice and even failure have contributed in developing my leadership abilities. But being able to create a vision and striving towards it is a leadership skill…

In accordance to the Relational Model of Leadership, a leader must accommodate their vision to 5 key components which will facilitate achieving a goal. This philosophy takes in account that leadership is a process between a group of people, not an individual task or action. Thus, the Relational Model states that leadership should be 1) purposeful, 2) inclusive, 3) ethical, 4) empowering, and 5) process- oriented in order to be sustainable and functional. I think Komives’ Relational Model of…

My Leadership Philosophy My definition of leadership is: Inspiring others to achieve a goal. My definition is simple and it’s taken me many years to come to this definition. I’ve developed my leadership definition based on my observations of leaders and my own leadership successes and failures. My influences include three of my Officers in Charge (OIC) from early in my career. The first example is what I believe a leader shouldn’t do; lead exclusively from position power. This OIC ensured…

Milestone One of OL-342 was designed to introduce the case study: The GM Culture Crisis: What Leaders Must Learn From This Culture Case Study and begin a critical analysis using what we have learned in this course at the time. Specifically, the focus was on culture crisis. I find it very hard to provide a brief summary on this case study with all that has gone on, but here is a high-level summary on Milestone One and what I thought when analyzing this case study on GM and answering the questions…

The second weakness of this leader is communication. In the leadership model of Kouzes and Posner this is encapsulated in the “Clarify Values” which is part of “Model the Way” as one of the five key qualities of the model. The values and the vision for the organization by the leader was always advertised, however there was never a clear path offered to the organization. In an article by Momeni “Developing and improving face-to-face communications with employees and giving employees enough…

In reflection of my learning experience, I was originally not completely sure if I learnt anything in my short time being involved with Lalor football club and their junior program, but as I began to think about my time and experiences, I soon realised that what I had learnt was actually quite a lot and of a huge value to me. Being involved in this amazing program that the Lalor football club provides I was given an incredible insight into many different facets of learning. For example, I got to…