I’ve been reflecting on the post I wrote a while back where I ranted about my frustrations at having conversations with people who are the business managers in my organisation. I still feel all those feelings I wrote then but I am I a little bit getter place- at least today while I am on […]
Over the last 12-18 months, I have been having ongoing conversations with the Maori stakeholder manager in my organisation over how we might collaborate to set up a deliberate tuakana-teina framework for the structure of our internal staff training and within apprentice training environments. As the learning and development manager I have influence and indeed […]
There’s so much talk about purpose in everything we are examining and I get it and I love it. What I am disillusioned with is that I am involved in pursuing a purpose at work using having conversations that are increasingly bandying the word and it is becoming jargon. https://app.themindlab.com/media/129967/view It was affirming to read […]
The course is heading towards the break and we have been looking more specifically at business and purpose again. During these last few weeks before Christmas, I am struggling to remain up to date with the lass prep and was not able to dial into some sessions. For at least one of those it was […]
Preparing the group presentation Servant Leadership has been great for allowing me to delve into this concept, one I had heard bandied about but had never really looked into. It has reinforced my belief that traditional western leadership paradigms are not appropriate or useful for promoting an ethic of responsibility and care for others. It […]
. “Does group thinking impact your context and how might you change this?” Yes- the strategies and approaches I read about totally fit what I experience. For example, I work in a team whose knowledge is uniquely held in the organisation as guardians of our holistic learning and assessment model. In the leadership team, I […]
This week we were asked to think about a time when unexpected change happened in our lives either personally or professionally and reflect on the range of emotions and stages we experienced: My early years were full of regular and unexpected changes. From the age of 5, my family moved every year- – usually without […]
The struggle to be real For the past 5 year’s I have been working within a corporate structure that makes it difficult to really be myself. Ironically, I was hired on the strength of my educational qualifications and experience, but once I got inside the fence it felt as if this was valued for status […]
My leadership styles- an evaluation I completed a leadership questionnaire and it gave me a few insights. It turns out that I have no well-developed styles and all need some further development. That doesn’t surprise me actually as I certainly don’t feel I am always ‘nailing it’ and I am not always getting the outcomes […]
This is an attractive ideal and it has arisen a number of times throughout the course. I have loved hearing stories of guest speakers who are out there doing it. For example, Martin spoke of the work he has done to ensure that banks do not penalise customers for being poor. Still, I find my […]