Using
Witherspoon’s Practices, use the data from attached Hero and Zero moments, your diary entries or any insight gained over the
teaching period to enhance your understanding of yourself. The goal is to gain
insight to the lessons of your experiences. This is the most important part of
this assignment. There are four components to this assignment:
1) report,
2) reflect
3) reframe
and
4) Re-design.
Report
Report
your key findings about yourself. The activities, readings and questions are
experiments that you conducted upon yourself. What happened when you undertook
these activities, read the readings and answered the questions? Summarise
and report these results from your diary entries.
Reflect:
You are expected to look back
retrospectively at the results you reported. Adopt a high level view to tease
out the patterns that exist in your experiences in the course. Apply course
concepts to look at the Hero and Zero entries, and other diary entries you may
have made to draw conclusions about your understanding of leadership, what it
means to be a leader, your assessment of your leadership capabilities,
assumptions that drive you, and default approaches to situations that may exist
within you. Here
are some possible questions to start you off, to help you focus your analysis
and interpretation. Please note that these are trigger questions only and are
intended to aid your reflection. Do
not use these trigger questions as headings, or structure your paragraphs
around each of them.
Table 1: Question triggers from
Witherspoon 2014, p264
Re-frame:
In this step, you are being asked to consider how you
saw the situations you saw your self in in the Hero/Zero moments, the in-class
activities etc. In other words, what lens were you viewing the world through?
What identity was activated at that moment? Again here are some triggers for
you.
Table 2: Question triggers based on author
and Witherspoon 2014 p265
By the end of this step, you should be in a position
to evaluate your own DLM capabilities. Such as:
o
To what extent do you
practice the capabilities of the DLM?
o
Are you a good
Sensemaker? What evidence do you have?
o
Are you good at Relating?
What evidence do you have?
o
Are you good at
Visioning? What evidence do you have?
o
Are you good at
Inventing? What evidence do you have?
o
Why do you rate yourself
this way? Do you think your peers and subordinates would rate you the same way?
o
You
need to reference your diary entries as part of your Results, Reflection
and Re-framing steps, either by number or by date. E.g. “from entries 1, 5
and 9, it is evident that I tend to avoid conflict. This raises the question
of why I might do that?”
Did
you treat an adaptive challenge as a technical challenge? Why?
Re-design:
Having analysed your Hero/Zero moments, ask yourself
what does this mean for yourself? This is a big picture perspective. You may
find contradictions; you may find hidden strengths or unknown weaknesses. Link
these insights back to the capabilities of the DLM i.e. the extent and quality
to which you practice these capabilities. Then outline what needs to change in
relation to the capabilities.
You need to identify three concrete actions to take:
–
What have you done well
and should continue to do?
–
What specific behaviour
should you stop engaging in? Why?
–
What specific behaviour
should you start engaging? Why?
The re-design may take the form of “If…then..
statements”. If I encounter this situation X, then I will take actions Y”.
These actions must be concrete steps and not statements like ‘I will sensemake
better’. What will you do to engage in better sensemaking? In
this last section, it is more than just 3 sentences. The identification of
these behaviours should be flow from the data to your analysis and your
interpretation. You must relate these actions back to the capabilities of the
DLM.
Reflection
Awareness
student has Reported,
analysed and Reflected upon the diary entries and the hero/zero
moments, identified the patterns of thinking/assumptions
/dispositions/conditions that shape decision making
30
Interpretation
Student has Re-framed
the experiences in this course and developed insights to self as a leader and
leadership capabilities outlined in the course as a result of developing
awareness of the factors that shape decision making
30
As a result of
Reframing that has occurred, Re-designing is demonstrated by
developing, SKS actions in relation to DLM capabilities
(Daniels, n.d.*) are identified
What should I stop doing?
10
What should I keep doing?
10
What should I start doing?
10
Referencing
10
Sub-total
100
Weighted down to
25%
