{"id":286,"date":"2019-03-31T17:03:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T00:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/?p=286"},"modified":"2019-03-31T17:03:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T00:03:58","slug":"reflecting-back-on-525","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/reflecting-back-on-525\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting back on 525"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reflecting on the entire <\/span>LRNT 525: Leading Change in Digital Learning<\/span><\/a> course and the first post that I wrote about being <\/span>a good versus an admired leader<\/span><\/a> (Dunn, 2019), I was given a few prompts to consider. <\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Think back to your initial post on leadership \u2013 has your perspective changed?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    My perspective regarding how leadership should be approached within my own context has remained the same. As mentioned in my previous post, utilizing a combination of reflective and distributive leadership would be the best option for my own context (Castelli, 2016). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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    1. In your current role, how can you help lead a change within your organization?<\/span>
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      \n<\/span>One of the main things that I can do to help lead change, is work towards getting myself and other more comfortable with the idea of change. As discussed by (Weiner, 2009), an organization’s readiness for change has a huge impact on if change will be successful. Understanding that we are in a time where change should be expected, we can now start to condition ourselves.<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. What can you envision doing in the future?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      For me, I can envision taking leaderships role with more formality. Understanding that the success of changes within organizations are impacted so heavily on the state before the change even begins (Watt, 2014; Weiner, 2009; Weller, & Anderson, 2009). In reflection, I believe I am someone who use to jump right into projects, and did not fully assess the current situation. Throughout this course, it was clear that spending more time laying the groundwork \u00a0is beneficial to leading successful change. This can be done by assessing and improving organizational readiness, working on the resilience to change, as well as making sure to have a good understanding of the important areas project management. Lastly, due to my school already utilizing an LMS that gathers data information, it would be interesting to better utilize learning analytics a the potential there seems great (Sclater, Peasgood, & Mullan, 2016). <\/span><\/p>\n

      It is interesting considering leadership traits, as someone who has no formal training in leadership, but often put in those roles, there are some things that I have inherently done, and others I am noticing that I should put more energy into. In your own leadership journey, are there skills\/traits that you have always done just because, and then later realized they were part of being a formal leader? If so, what were they? <\/span><\/p>\n

      References<\/span><\/p>\n

      Castelli, P. (2016). <\/span>Reflective leadership review: a framework for improving organisational performance<\/b><\/a>. <\/span>Journal of Management Development<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>35<\/span><\/i>(2), 217-236. <\/span><\/p>\n

      Dunn, A. (2019). What makes a good leader versus an admired leader? [Blog post]. Retrieved from <\/span>https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/what-makes-a-good-leader-versus-an-admired-leader\/<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n

      Sclater, N., Peasgood, A, & Mullan, J. (2016). Learning analytics in higher education: A review of UK and international practice. Jisc. <\/span><\/p>\n

      Watt, A. (2014). <\/span>Project Management<\/i><\/b><\/a>. Victoria, BC: BCcampus. <\/span><\/p>\n

      Weiner, B. J. (2009). <\/span>A theory of organizational readiness for change<\/b><\/a>. <\/span>Implementation Science<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>4(67)<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

      Weller, M., & Anderson, T., (2013). <\/span>Digital Resilience in Higher Education<\/b><\/a>. <\/span>European Journal of Open Distance and E-Learning<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>16<\/span><\/i>(1), 53-66. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Reflecting on the entire LRNT 525: Leading Change in Digital Learning course and the first post that I wrote about being a good versus an admired leader (Dunn, 2019), I was given a few prompts to consider. Think back to your initial post on leadership \u2013 has your perspective changed? My perspective regarding how leadership … Continue reading “Reflecting back on 525”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt525"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0052\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}