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 \u201cus versus them\u201d I now have a more insight into the decisions that are made and a better ability to critique the managerial choices.<\/p>\n
In my first blog post for this course, I discussed the difference between digital learning leadership and in person learning leadership. I looked at my own leadership experience and asked who am I as a leader? Finally I looked to frameworks and models of leadership to determine who to be a good leader.<\/p>\n
Leadership, like most fields, is ever changing not only in digital environments, but in person as well (Spector, Ifenthaler, Sampson, & Isaias, 2014). In my current role, I have little in way of influence, however this doesn\u2019t have to stop someone from taking a position of leadership. In my workplace, I have recognized a gap in value-based leadership (O\u2019Toole, 2012), where recognition of efforts plays a role in leading employees. I noticed that the same people were getting \u201cshout-outs\u201d and \u201ckudos\u201d from the same people who were receiving them. Through side conversations, I could tell this was leaving some colleagues disheartened. I brought this up in a meeting and now I am in charge of developing an initiative to ensure across Primary Health Care (PHC) everyone feels appreciated and not just the same names getting thrown about. Luckily now armed with a better understanding of change management frameworks and project management models, I have confidence that I can impose a new culture within PHC. I can only hope to gain more leadership opportunities moving forward and proving my abilities. Until then, it\u2019s about working hard and making small changes.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Toole, J. (2012). Notes Toward a Definition of Values-Based Leadership. The Journal of Values-Based Leadership<\/em>, 1<\/em>(17), 44\u201353. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/2929117<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 \u201cus versus them\u201d I now have a more insight into the decisions that are made and a better […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt525"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0058\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0058\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0058\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0058\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0058\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0058\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0058\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0058\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0058\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0058\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}