For this activity, I’d like to know more about constructivism. Personally, I’m more in the camp of B.F. Skinner that is nurture over nature, but there are extraneous variables that genetically predispose specific behavious and abilities (Herrnstein, 1998), but I digress. Constructivism theorizes that all of our learning is built upon previous learning and experiences. […]

Two years may feel like a short time, but since April 2018 life has been moving at a snail’s pace. Every day full of new articles, knowledge, understandings cramming my brain to the point where I’ve forgotten schedules, faces, and basic motor skills. Thinking about my final paper is the most I can muster, anything […]

Alberta Health Services (AHS) Primary Health Care (PHC) focuses on patient-centered care as part of a medical home model to deliver complete patient care (Canada’s College of Family Physicians, 2014). Patients need to be consulted to provide feedback from a patient lens to ensure that patients remain at the center of the care model, allowing […]

This is a reflection in response to feedback regarding the digital learning resource (DLR) developed in assignment 2 of the LRNT527 course. I would like to thank Jessica Brown & Amanda Dunn for their feedback. What was the most surprising thing that you learned by participating in the design thinking process and designing and developing […]

We’ve heard the terms before. I’m referring to the times when you’re in the groove, the zone, the flow, whatever you want to call it. It’s the time when your focus is fixated on one task and the rest of the world doesn’t seem to exist and time just seems to fly by without your […]

There are many names for it. Some people describe it as being “in the groove” in a “state of Zen” or “flow model” (Csikszentmihalyi 1975, p. 12). Kiili (2005) describes it as “a state of complete absorption or engagement in an activity and refers to the optimal experience” (p. 14). Kiili (2005) compared the flow […]

As I reflect back on the past nine weeks, I can say definitively my perspective has changed in the field of leadership, change and project management. Where I once had a perspective more closely aligned to an “us versus them” I now have a more insight into the decisions that are made and a better […]

As a team we developed a project planning tool for this assignment mainly in a program called Rise. I want to thank my teammates for being such an amazing group to work with. Please look on Theresa’s blog for to see what we had developed or click the link below. Apply A SystemsLens for Your […]

The relationship between leadership and change is a constant phenomenon. As change events occur, leadership must elicit change management strategies to successfully adapt its subordinates. I interviewed two colleagues about their leadership perspectives in change management around a common event called a reorganization. My department is provincial, so we have little opportunity to have in-person […]

Anyone who works in the public sector understands the constant movement as politics, goals, policies and people change. This is the crux of system theory, as one part of a system changes, the rest of the system needs to be changed to accommodate (Biech, 2007). Every four years or sooner, we usually have a change […]