Break the ice!
Welcome to the brand new Management Performance Group! Simply put, this is the 80-20 rule in action! It’s probably safe to say that 20% of development is through formal training and 80% is through informal learning. We learn by doing and by sharing. So let’s get our learning community for Management & Leadership started. Who is going to break the ice?
Good evening, my leadership style is to develop a team, maintain open communication, and allow the employees to be an active participate in the classroom and learn how to manage their learning enviornment. This way the instructors will take ownership of their class environment and work harder to ensure students success.
Many times I have my students teach other students. When I was in the world of business, I would direct collaborative learning as well. This allows learning to occur more informally. It allows for the application of knowlege to occur in a supportive environment.
I believe that as long as you are in position that requires you to use management and leaderships skills that you are is a state of constant development. there are usually daily moments that you will use both skill sets to get the best performance from not only the people that report to you but also get the best support from the people that you report to. One size only fits one person, what I mean by that is you will use one style of approach with a group and then a personalized style of approach for each person in the group. It all comes down to do you just want simple compliance or do you want ownership and by in?
My leadership style is usually tailored to different types of students. I have also found that one size doesn't fit all, as I teach artists, and their personality styles differ greatly and can be very ecclectic. There is a mix of informal learning in my class, as well as formal learning. I have learned that when the majority of responsibility is placed in my students' hands to learn and grow, I get good results because they take more ownership in their projects and learning. I am always objective in the sense that I never enable my students by giving an easy answer, but to provide the resources that they need to do their own research and simply be a facilitator in their learning process.
As an instructor, I try to be more the veteran sergeant down in the trenches with my students instead of the inaccessible officer behind a desk somewhere. Not that I become their buddy, but that I lead from the front by doing first - and being seen doing first - anything I require of them. I also strongly encourage a team-oriented, collaborative environment. It's amazing how much people can learn from each other in addition to learning from the instructor.
As an instructor, I try to be flexible at all times. I am not flexible with the school rules though. The rules are what they are and I don't bend much on them, even though there are the ocassional circumstances where you have to make accomodations for. As far as my instructing techniques, I am very flexible because no two classes are the same. they all take on their own unique personality. I change my delivery techniques to suit their needs so they can be sucessful in my course. If I have a class that needs a more authoritative approach, then that is what I use. If the class is more mature, I use an appropriate style for them. You have to be able to recognize the needs of every class in order to be sucessful.
As a new manager, I try to ensure that all of my instructors have everything that they need in order to do their job successfully. What this entales is if they need supplys I make sure that they are available, or if there is student issues, I will either guide the instructor to how to handle it, or I will call the students to my office to rectify the issue. In other words, I let the instructor have control of his class, but if it is something that is beyond his reach, that is when I will correct the problem. What this does is let the instructor feel that he does have “power or control” over his class, but also has the support of his management.
The Management model that I follow is to Model, Motivate, and then Manage.
In this course, I learned to further develop my leadership skills to enhance group participation. I will add a devil’s advocate to our problem solving sessions to help protect our tight knit team from stifling creativity.
One of the greatest thrills of my life was to have the opportunity to coach youth athletics. I was blessed to have coached baseball, basketball, and football and even more special is to have seven of these wonderful youngsters go on to receive Division 1 scholarships. Why do I say all of this? Because I have learned so much from the youngsters that I am able to apply to dealing with adults. Plain and simply, kids tell the truth if they trust you. If you listen to that truth then you know exactly how to bring out their best. Kids and adults are really not that different. They both want to do well and they really want to know how to do just that and they are counting on you as their coach/manager to help them, teach them, and get them where the want to go. Each individual is different and it is up to the good coach/manager to learn and then develop that individual based on their current abilities while continually setting new and achievable goals to keep them hungry and believing that they are capable of anything they set their mind to if they are willing to work hard and never stop believing in themselves. I agree because about 20% of the time we were doing things they hated but were necessary while the remaining 80% I made if fun and really applied what they were learning and doing why they were learning and doing and when they put it all together they could see how it helped them to enjoy success on and off the field. In the culinary world my students love this approach no matter their age.
I think with our students (Culinary) they are at this point in their lives that have evaluated their lives and have decided to change careers. I'm here to guide them on their journey
when we are in class I know that most of the information comes from my lecture and demonstrations, but the other part comes from my notes of experience in the real world which is of course the positive ideas that influence people to come to technical colleges, however, I also have former students come back and talk about the relevance of their classes and the info to their real world scenarios and I find that sometimes that is more valuable than anything I can lecture
APA's Center for Organizational Esxcellence made a survey in 2013 and found that job related stress ia a serius issue in work scenario. The american people has serius problem with the stress and just 36% of the organizations provide help. We need to know how to work with coworker with stress and tried to preovide good resources to deal with stress.
