02-04 Leadership Week 2 Overview

Hello Leadership folks

in this video.

I want to give you a really quick overview of modal and some tools that I want

to remind you are there and then most of the video

will be an overview of what's coming next week um,

in your learning experience.

So as you can see, I have model open. So let's have a look

at what we have here.

What I wanted to point out is that we have this calendar on

the side and as we start to have grated assessments or required assessments,

these will start being indicated in the calendar.

So that will be a handy tool for you moving forward.

Also,

I've put together a set of links that are there for your benefit and should be

really helpful for you as a quick reference to find these things.

So of course you have the virtual cafe in the announcements folder,

but also if you want to quickly find us via zoom.

Um, you have some other, you have that link here.

You also have links to our flip grid space as well as the joint code

and our perusal space and the course code there

volley is here as well.

That's another tool we'll be using for video communication, mostly chat.

And then this orientation that is available to you as a grad student

that we've just introduced and it's a really great tool for you to use

at the same time. I want to point out a really important tool here.

It's the suggestions. Um, I guess the suggestion box is what I call it.

It is anonymous folks.

So if there's anything that you're experiencing as part of your learning in the

class and you think we can improve it or do more of it,

please do let me know.

And I think a lot of students are worried about um sort of not the repercussions,

but maybe hurting my feelings.

If you suggest something, I really welcome your feedback though.

So I have this suggestion box here. It's anonymous. I will have no idea who said what

so use it be active in terms of

how you're learning and what you can suggest to me and

very often I do end up

following your suggestions.

Another link is under communication and that's the office. Our request.

If you would like to meet with me, you and your team eventually or just you

complete this form and I get an email immediately and will set up an appointment

at the bottom of our page.

We have some really helpful resources that you pay for folks as part of your tuition.

So do have a look here and see what services and resources are available to you.

I would like to highlight that. Um, we have a great counseling center

and we have a student success center. If you need some academic skills support

and the writer's block. It's a great, great resource for you

and if you've been paying attention to the introductions,

you'll know that one of our class members actually works in the writer's block.

I think she has mentioned it. There you go. It's a she's a she

So there's a little hint

All right at the top of the page,

I want to remind you that you should always be checking in on the announcements.

Those are always about the course

and they affect your learning.

So those are super important for you to stay up to date with you get an

email but I know you're also flooded by emails and you may miss some of them.

So make sure you read the announcements and the virtual cafe exchanges.

These also are about your learning and super valuable.

Alright, let's dive into what we're going to be doing next week.

Just a quick reminder though, if you want to drop the course, mine or another,

make sure that you do it by the end of the day.

Today,

friday february 4th.

So next week folks,

we are diving into this really crucial topic of

core values and strategic communication as well as followership.

And as always I begin with an overview for the

course and outline the learning outcomes that we're focusing on

and then you have this detailed list that I've put together to help you keep track.

So everything is here in the tasks list

and you have the checklist which hopefully is working for you.

I can't quite tell from my view. Unfortunately, as I'm an instructor.

All right.

As I said,

we are going to be looking at followership and that will be mostly an article from

North House that you'll be looking at.

But you're also going to watch this three minute video first,

so dive into the topic of followership,

watch the video and follow my instructions for what you're,

what you're to be focusing on.

And this will help make your learning efficient and deeper.

All right,

I also share with you what you should focus on as you read North House,

including some specific page numbers.

So hopefully you're finding that useful

after you've had a look at followership,

I would like you to think about the leadership

development project as well as your own leadership development.

And on this page I introduced

the reading that will be doing

and

more importantly for this particular page is the

adult learning theory that is going to frame our

project and the project is all about leadership

development and leaders are adults in the workplace.

So this is called the Experiential Learning Cycle

and this essentially is how I frame your learning as well.

So you have a concrete experience and we're going to be having more and more of those.

But even something like annotating in perusal or sharing um

details about yourself in the discussion forum,

like your credo that's a concrete experience.

It's applied.

I always encourage you to reflect about that experience and um

when we reflect on it and try to understand it.

Uh we it actually becomes a little bit deeper and meaningful to you

this section, abstract conceptualization is just a formal term for

giving a name to what you experienced and trying

to make sense of it by linking it to something

outside of your world

and concluding about it, you know, maybe just labeling it

in an abstract way, and then you think, okay from that experience,

in my reflection and what I think it might be

called and what it means in the real world,

I'm gonna try it again,

So it's a cycle and this is what we'll be

learning about a little bit later in much more detail.

But for now,

I just wanted to give you this visual in an overview because in your reading

which you'll do this week from Baron Kaczmarski,

they refer to the experiential Learning cycle by Kolb.

Unfortunately, they don't go into much depth,

so I just wanted to give your brain a little bit of a framework to process that.

Reading,

you will also in the discussion forum later share your core values,

so I give you a little bit of a description here, and I also share with you

a kind of a worksheet to go through if you have

some problems or some challenges really identifying your own core values.

So, follow this and do have a look at the hand out either way

and uh

share any thoughts you have about that in the virtual cafe, if you like,

but mostly you'll use the information there in the discussion forum this week.

So those are the two discover activities,

you'll learn about followership and you'll

think about the leadership development project

and then the actual activities are

this perusal annotation about career curiosity

and in that activity

you'll be working with your group.

So I have set up three separate activities within

perusal so that you're now working in a smaller team

to discuss the course content, this makes it a bit more manageable.

So here are the names and here are the instructions I

have copied about what you will be doing in perusal.

Again, you're going to be reading that Bauer in Kandahar Ski article

and what I want to remind you of at this stage is that you will be also evaluating one

other student in the class in terms of their

class participation and that student is within your group.

So I'm trying to make things as efficient as

possible so that as you're interacting with other students,

you should be paying attention to the student that

you are evaluating and just start taking some notes and

considering their performance in class participation because as I said,

you'll be evaluating them and they are in your group.

So that's one of the main learning activities next week.

The other is this discussion form

and this is related to the article as well.

It extends the Bowel and Kaczmarski article.

It also introduces digital media and your core values.

So you've got all of these instructions here,

you've got the headings I'd like you to use in your discussion forum, posts

and once you made that post

instructions on how to go back and forth with one another um

in the discussion forum.

So I did mention

digital media and I want to go into depth now

about that a little bit. But first I'll just let you know we have

again per your request,

a live session on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. That's going to be a Q and a session

where I am not going to be presenting any new content or anything that I've prepared.

Instead, I'm there to answer your questions and to discuss material

as you like. But it's really your session

to drive as you like. And that is on Tuesday

5:30 And it's optional and recorded.

Alright back to social media,

You'll see that in the complete section you have two items.

These are not graded assignments, but they are required.

So you're going to complete a survey that is online and you'll find later.

It's also mentioned in the North House um

In Chapter two, I believe.

So that's very self explanatory and I want you to

save the pdf that will be emailed to you.

That will all be part of your own. Um

not only your leadership development

project because hopefully the experience doing

that will give you some ideas about developing other leaders,

but it's also going to be part of your portfolio

so make sure you save the pdf from that survey

and with social media you are going to be creating or using

your twitter account and your linkedin account.

Now I just want to be clear

if you're not comfortable sharing your personal twitter account,

you don't have to just create a new one, use a slightly different name

ah and you can keep it anonymous or private I guess I should say

but you're going to use it as part of your learning in this

class and just so you know I have two twitter accounts myself,

I do have a private account but I have one that's professional and that's the one

I'll be using with you and that I use to network and to learn through twitter,

so create a twitter account and then just add me or follow me on twitter.

That's just your initial step, do that by sunday.

You may already have a linkedin account if you don't create one and in either case

if it's a new one or you're just using the one that you already have,

add me as a contact, that's just your starting point to complete that by sunday

so that's what what what we have going on next week.

I'm hoping this is clear for you but as always

folks please reach out to me in the virtual cafe

and let me know if you have any questions or would like some clarifications

and let me come back here to,

I wish you a good weekend into um,

advise you strongly to really walk away from your computer.

If you can for

24 hours, 36 hours and just get your mind elsewhere. That will refresh your brain.

It will be beneficial to your learning. You're not going to lose anything.

It's really good to give your brain a break and

your body and your mind and to just reconnect with

what's around you, whether that's family, your partner, anything at all.

Your friends do walk away from your computer.

Also pat yourself on the back, you're all doing a really good job and hey,

you made it to the end of week one in your graduate course.

So well done folks and I will see you.

02-04 Leadership Week 2 Overview

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