...Transformative Learning Transformative learning challenges learners to reflect on how past experiences has shaped them. It can essentially adjust your views, feelings, thoughts, and actions. It can change the way you identify and interact with the world. When transformational learning occurs, your daily activities, relationships, and your visions for the future can be changed. In the four stages of transformational learning process you must: (1) Recognizing a specific problem - In this first stage of the process, the individual has decided that there is some form of change that is necessary in their life. You must realize what the problem is so that you have an idea on what you are going to be examining. (2) Confronting it intensely - Next you must address the problem without time-wasting and be open to accepting all ideas. This step requires serious thinking and is a very important part of the process, as it takes a person through the whys and wherefores of the problem, and what has worked and not worked in the past to decrease or change the problem or problems. (3) Finding a solution - Finding the solution is the next step. Provided with self-awareness, the information on the reasons and causes of the problem, what has worked and hasn't worked in the past, an individual evaluates all of this information and makes a conclusion about what step or steps that need to be taken to solve the problem. (4) Integrating a new perspective and a new set of assumptions into your life -...
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...When thinking about transformational changes, many don’t know that if can be something that has happened to them in the past or even present. Transformational changes can be anything from recognizing a significant problem such as not being able to get promoted in a job that you are working for. When thinking about confronting it intensely can be you thinking of reasons on why you’re not getting promoted such as education wise. When finding the solution it could be to get back into school to earn a degree so that when a promotion comes up you are on top of your game and know what to expect. Integrating a new perspective and a new set of assumptions into your life pattern was to take the knowledge that the person has learned as used it in their career. Many people may take the transformational changes to make themselves better but to also make their job more of a career then something that they have to do on an everyday base to base. A transformational change that I did to myself was when working in a child care setting it is hard to want to move up the line to better yourself as a coworker. I had recognized a significant problem about my career and that was the promotion part. Being in the child care setting and working on post for the military they would like to have their co-\workers to have some sort of degree when working in that kind of setting. That was the confronting the intensely part was knowing that I didn’t have a degree. So what I wanted to do was to better myself...
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...Director. What? The lesson is composed of different segments that the instructors will become familiar with and in due course become subject matter experts. The lesson will cover 1. Creating pre and post assessments utilizing Survey Monkey 2. Analyzing and tracking assessment results using an excel spreadsheet 3. Skills on how to manage a classroom Where? The lesson will be held in the classrooms at FSS. All courses will take a two week break to ensure that all instructors are available to attend the training. Why? The director of FSS determined that there was a need for training through various assessments and evaluations of the instructors when they are teaching. These elements are imperative to the context of which learning will take place. It is important to be able to assess the needs of the audience before delivering the training to the intended audience. The purpose of the training is to ensure that the instructors understand and are able to proper perform their job functions. The potential impact that this lesson will have on the instructors at FSS is they will be charged with becoming more self-sufficient at the tasks and with the second training they will be able to attend the training with more experience and a better understand of the skill then they had the first training. The strategies that will be used to guarantee that they are able to perform the tasks before the training is complete are; 1. Behavior Modeling- is a presentation method...
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...Critical Reflection and Transformational Leadership Ivan F Rodriguez University of Phoenix Critical Reflection and Transformational Leadership This paper briefly examines the relevance of critical reflection practices in leadership development. Incorporating critical reflective practices in a leadership development program (LDP) helps closing loops assimilating the knowledge, updating reference frames and providing valuable feedback to the decision making and problem solving processes. It is my learned experience that using critical lenses to enable building on previous experiences and to incorporate new learning will perpetrate the transformational leadership (TL) process. The correlation between critical reflection and TL can be explained by the closed loop between outside world and inside world, it is though a reflective process how the leader encourages multiple perspectives that ultimately challenge his or her to excel in complex and uncertain environments. Leadership development practices depend on reflection-in-action. Advancing one step further, TL focuses on how leaders inspire and motivate followers to a higher moral level (Burns, 1978), its essence is inspiring follower’s commitment to achieve the vision of a desired future. TL conveys the “connection between the organization’s philosophy and shared values, and embeds those values in organizational rules and actions in order to communicate meaning and inspire followers” (Bennis and Nanus, 1985, p. 58). The...
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...When you come to a point in your life when you’re faced to make significant choices or changes you are entering a new cycle of learning. Because of the depths of its outcomes this type of learning is known as transformational. The four stages of transformational learning are recognizing the problem, confronting it, finding the solution, and integrating a new perspective and a new set of assumptions into your life. These stages are often stressful and overwhelming. I have experienced transformational change 4 years ago. The situation I was unfortunately faced with was the death of my husband. I was more or less in denial for a while of the problem. After sometime passed I sat down and thought to myself I have to face this, the biggest reason was for my daughter. I knew that I had to carry on with my life not just for myself but for her as well. After sitting down and realizing this isn’t going away and it’s not a bad dream I knew I had to confront the situation with all I had. This was not easy. I never thought I would have to confront such a problem. By confronting it I found even though it was painful it was helpful. I knew that until I confront this I can’t fix it. After what seemed took forever I came up with not necessarily a solution to what had happened but I figured out what I’m going to do from here on out. Moving forward was my biggest plan I knew there’s no going back and no point of dwelling on the past. I also found a way to handle the grief in a better way by joining...
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...Transformational Change Characteristics of Tranformational Change - Radical changes in how members behave at work. • Change is triggered by environmental and internal disruptions (Industry discontinuities , Product life cycle shifts, and Internal company dynamics) • Change is aimed at competitive advantage (Uniqueness, Value, Difficult to imitate) • Change is sytemic and revolutionary - Reshaping organization's design elements • Change demands a new organizing paradigm (gamma change) • Change is driven by senior executives and line management (envisioning, energizing, and enabling) • Change involves significant learning - Must learn how to enact the new behaviors Intergrated Strategic Change - Extends traditional OD process into content oriented discipline of strategic management • Key Features: - Strategic Orientation - Stratic change capability - Individual and organizations are integrated into the process • Applications Stages (Strategic analysis, strategic choice, and design and implement the strategic change plan) Organization Design - Configures the organizations structure, work design, HR practice, and management to guide members' behavior • Conceptual Framework ( Strategy, Structure, Work Design, HR Practices, and Management / Information Systems) • Application Stages (Clarify design focus, designing the organization, and implementing the design Culture Change • Concept of Organization Culture (artifacts, norms, values, basic assumptions)...
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...What? (1 point) * What happened in class today? * We talked about how evaluations affected us. Then we moved onto the group presentations from chap 9-15. * What content was covered? * Based on what was presented, I think that we covered all 6 chapters from shared leadership, to transformational leadership, core principles, learning taking ownership, and many more. * How did this class stimulate or hamper your learning? * I would say that It helped my learning on how the students where presenting. * Of course, some groups were better than others at presenting. I really liked the last presentation with Brock’s group. They had us involved, and the process of actually learning by doing and not just watching proved to be effective. * What did you learn about yourself? About others? * It surprises me everytime I say it, but this is by far the best group I have had since my freshmen year. I learned that It depends who you work with to accomplish a certain goal. Some will be bossy, some will be social loafers, and some put in more effort than the others. I just have to learn to adapt with all these kind of situations in order to achieve a common goal. So What? (1 point) * What was your reaction to class? * I have learned in this class. L.J mentioned it in the beginning of class that most people say they’ve learned more than the average in this class. And I’ll now have to agree with that. * How did you feel...
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...Adult Learning Theory June 18, 2013 Summary This paper will explore developments in Adult Learning Theory from two different perspectives. First, in Sharan Merriam’s article, she discusses changes in current adult learning theory thought and how this impacts the future of learning environments for adults (Merriam, 2008). Then, Sandlin, Wright, & Clark present an argument on adult learning theory as viewed from a societal or cultural perspective with the world as the classroom as opposed to brick and mortar buildings (Sandlin, Wright, & Clark, 2011). Finally, the authors’ conclusions will be compared to discover if there is a common ground where the authors meet. Sharan Merriam is a well-known, published professor in the field of adult learning. In the first part of her article she outlines three major developments in adult learning theory. Merriam states, “The only constant across three updates is … transformational learning” (Merriam, 2008, p. 93). One major development is an expansion of thought into the complexity of adult learning. Another is the context in which learning takes place is growing in importance. Lastly, adult learning is not merely a cognitive process. “Adult learning is a multi-dimensional phenomenon…” (Merriam, 2008, p. 94). Transformational learning requires the student to be able to reflect and analyze one’s own thoughts as well as, the thoughts of others. This is crucial for adult learning to be successful (Merriam, 2008). Sandlin...
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...planning. Patients would be sent home with instructions from the discharge planner and orders from their physician, but no arrangements had been made for home health care, durable medical equipment or follow-up appointments with their physician. According to Senge’s five disciplines, the shared vision discipline, defined “This collective discipline establishes a focus on mutual purpose. People learn to nourish a sense of commitment in a group or organization by developing shared images of the future they seek to create, and the principles and guiding practices by which they hope to get there” would be a place to start. (Society for organizational learning) Utilizing the team learning discipline will continue to define the problem by thinking together collectively and coming up with solutions. (Society for organizational learning) This approach to control costs and help ensure positive patient outcomes aligns with their mission “We support the physician/patient relationship and...
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...results. This essay summarizes my assessment results with analysis of attributes that addresses my career choice as leader in management. My self-assessment also includes learning of the Johari window in my leadership practices. My career choice has been enhanced with understanding of management issues, styles and practices. I have reviewed what it takes to be a twenty first century manager, leadership styles, intuitive ability, conflict management strategies, time management profile, organizational design preference and cultural learning. A twenty First century manager The assessment determines competencies and profile of managers. My PMF score is 7, which means there are areas in management I need to develop. The learnings are managerial skills one can develop to be successful. They include resistance to stress, tolerance of uncertainty, social objectivity, inner work standards, stamina, adaptability, self-confidence, introspection and entrepreneurism. I will continually strengthen these managerial traits in my leadership practices. Leadership style In completing the leadership style questionnaire, I have learned about beliefs and perceptions of leadership that are important. My transformational leadership score is 23 and my transactional leadership style is 9. I am confortable with transformational leadership because it has qualities that inspire vision and desire for...
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...Leadership Leader is the one who shows the way, has the vision, inspires, and motivates the followers. So, the more the qualities a leader possesses and the charisma he has the more successful and effective the team will be which he leads within an organisation. In the twenty-first century, leader must create an atmosphere in which people believe in strategy, believe in management decisions, and believe in their work. Once people believe in management decisions, there is an excitement within an organisation. Such as atmosphere makes an organisation prosper. Successful leader create this sort of environment both inside and outside the organisation Subir Chowdhury (2000). A simple definition of leadership is that leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal. Leadership is a matter of making difference. Leadership is inspiring and influencing other people, it is a relationship through which one person influences the behaviour of actions of other people. A leader, who innovates, develops, focuses on people, has an eye on the horizon and does the right thing. Leadership is related to motivation, good leadership help to develop team work and the integration of individual and group goals and involves the effective process of delegation and empowerment. Mulins L. J (2005). Leadership is a special form of power, and as such, is a way of commanding and focusing resources to achieve a particular vision, change or goal. On this basis...
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...The transformational learning process describes in detail of how different individuals learn through life experiences. Being transformed means to be changed from a particular state of being to another. Not everyone learns the same so it is broken down into different phases. (Meizirow’s 7 phases) For example Billy was told not to touch the iron because it will burn his hand. Billy doesn’t believe the iron will burn his hand because it’s not fire red. Billy touches the iron and his hand is burned. Next time Billy listens to the warnings that are given to him. Some people listen from the start of the situation. Some people just listen well and will evaluate for themselves. They take a step back and decide whether or not they should do what they were told not to do. A transformational experience that I went through to bring me to my lowest point was getting married and going to the military. Little did I know I had so much to learn about what a woman expects you to do and what the military tells makes you do. I was between a rock and a hard place. I chose to leave both. First the military to smooth things over with my wife, then the wife to have a peace of mind. The phase that applies mostly to me is self evaluation. I took long hard years for me to get to this point. When you evaluate something to see what the outcome would be. I have learned just from my wife evaluating me. I call it constructive criticism. She makes sure I can’t point the finger at anyone but myself. The most...
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...and critical thinking skills are “…negatively impacted by stress and anxiety” (Kim, Oliveri, Riingen, Taylor, & Rankin, 2013, p. e43 The transition from being a nursing student to a novice nurse is a challenge that can be overwhelmingly filled with stress and anxiety. Providing a structured orientation program is helpful in easing this stress and anxiety for a short period of time. After orientation, novice nurses are faced with challenges that require critical thinking and clinical skills beyond what he/she has developed causing a spike in stress and anxiety. Continuing education will help in the progression of a novice nurse to that of an expert nurse, however not exclusively. The Institute of Medicine states a culture of lifelong learning is essential due to the complex and technical world of nursing, yet continuing education is “fragmented and undeveloped”(2010, p. 202). To augment continuing education, a residency program utilized for the first year after a nursing student has transitioned to the role of a novice nurse is extremely beneficial. The opportunity for a novice nurse to be involved in this type of environment can enable him/her to demonstrate the safe, competent and compassionate care that highlights nursing and to provide that care in a non-threatening atmosphere with adequate mentored support. Outcome Improvement Kowalski and Cross cite the nursing rate of turnover within the first year after graduation as being up to 50% due to, however not limited...
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...professional in a personal capacity, when collaborating and working with others, and when functioning efficiently and effectively in an organisational context. It will enable learners to assess their own strengths and identify a continuing professional development (CPD) plan, based on the capabilities required for ethical, business-focused and interpersonal professional conduct. This unit is suitable for persons who: • seek to develop a career in HR management and development • are working in the field of HR management and development and need to extend their knowledge and skills • have responsibility for implementing HR policies and strategies • need to understand the role of HR in the wider organisational and environmental context. Learning outcomes On completion of this unit,...
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...This latest edition genuinely strives to include all adults in the quest for learning. The author’s heightened cultural sensitivity and awareness makes this book especially unique among other motivational texts. “Our emphasis is on creating a convergence of multiple ideas and methods from which teachers and learners may choose in order to support the diverse perspectives and values of adult learners” (p. 45). The author most definitely succeeds in this charge towards inclusion of...
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