{"id":5571,"date":"2025-01-27T09:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt525\/?guid=45c8f62e022c49211196036344685093"},"modified":"2025-01-27T09:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T17:22:10","slug":"week-2-in-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-coursesite.royalroads.ca\/lrnt525\/week-2-in-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 in Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"by Michelle Harrison. &nbsp;<p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><\/p><p>Hi everyone,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you had a good weekend! I\nshared a few of the leadership characteristics that you highlighted in my\ndiscussion post on Thursday, and it is great to you probing these further in your\nteam discussions. Many of you have noted that that context and culture often\nimpact our current perceptions of what we value in a leader \u2013 how will this\ntranslate to your own approach to leading? One thing I like to emphasize for\nthe course is that everyone has a capacity to lead in any role that they have in\nour workplaces and communities. <span lang=\"en-us\" xml:lang=\"en-us\">Personally,\nI am just back in a more formal leadership position in my organization after\ntaking a break. I really appreciated the opportunities to take on different\nkinds of leadership \u2013 moving into mentorship and support for my colleagues, as\nthey pursue their own goals and growth. In a self-study that I was a part of\nwith other women leaders in distance education we talked about the differences\nbetween what we called \u201cbig L\u201d and \u201csmall l\u201d leadership \u2013 and how both are so\nessential. We all know that person in an organization who knows how everything\nworks, is supportive and a good mentor and who through their networking provide\na kind of \u201cglue\u201d\u2013 and they are often not in a formal leadership role but are\ndefinitely leaders. Through their mentorship they are often helping their team\nmembers unlock their potential. For me I wonder how we support these leaders\nand provide recognition for all their work. My hope for this course is that we\ncan all identify different ways to be leaders within our organizations to help\ninfluence change that we can support \u2013 in whatever role we are in. <\/span><span lang=\"en-us\" xml:lang=\"en-us\"><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p>This week you will start to consider the readings that\nexamine the theoretical frameworks for leadership. As you do, keep the values,\nattributes and perspectives from the initial rankings that have been\ncontributed to the team discussions in the back of your mind. How do you start\nto align your own values with a systematic approach to your own leadership\ngrowth? How do some of the alternative perspectives and discussions about\nleadership shift your thinking? This will be a thread that goes throughout the\ncourse, and which we will revisit in the final Unit and in the final project. <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Here are a few thoughts as you head into Part 3 of\nActivity 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n <li>Many of you are well into the first team activity\n     and have shared your list of attributes. You should be completing your\n     readings and reflecting on your initial rankings. Has anything shifted?\n     Your next steps will be wrangling the challenge of coming to consensus on\n     your valued leaders\u2019 traits. Once you have completed your team ranking and\n     have posted it let me know (either an email or a post in team forums if\n     you are posting to your blogs). I have further information to share! <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n <li>Activity 3<br \/>\n     Your second activity this week is to complete the Activity 3 blog post. To\n     keep up with your classmates posts you can set up <strong>Feedly<\/strong> to give\n     you alerts when new posts are up. Many of you have likely done this for\n     past courses, but if not, I will add a short description in the General\n     Discussions area. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Housekeeping:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n <li>Synchronous session: Though I know this won't likely\n     work for everyone let\u2019s try for Tuesday January 28<sup>th<\/sup> at<strong> 5:00\n     PST<\/strong> for our first synchronous session. I will record the session\n     (someone please remind me at the beginning!) and I will try to wrap it up\n     by 6:00. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>A few things\nI would like to chat about: <\/p>\n\n<ul><li>\u00a0Admired\nleaders activity (a quick check in so far)<\/li><li>\n\nResearch\nperspectives (and alternatives), <\/li><li>\n\nEngaging\nwith the readings (and how to manage that), <\/li><li>\n\nAPA\ncitations (which is not what is in the course)<\/li><li>\n\nyour first\nblog post (Activity 3)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<p>I am sure\nyou also have questions to bring and ideas to share!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will use\nthe Zoom pace in Moodle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n <li>Just a note on discussions \u2013 if you have not\n     already, you may want to subscribe to your team and the general\n     discussions. This will give you alerts via email when there are posts (I\n     know it really helps me keep up on everything!).\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Have a great week and hope to see\nyou on Tuesday! And if you do have questions for me that are for or would\nbenefit the whole group, post them into the Ask the Instructor area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michelle<\/p><br \/><p><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Michelle Harrison. &nbsp;Hi everyone,<\/p>\n<p>I hope you had a good weekend! I<br \/>\nshared a few of the leadership characteristics that you highlighted in my<br \/>\ndiscussion post on Thursday, and it is great to you probing these further in your<br \/>\nteam discussions. 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