Leadership Journal, Values, Analysis
Brian Siegel
MGMT 902
Journal
Locus of Control
I believe God has granted us with the ability and freedom of choice. We are as limited as we limit ourselves. One needs to take charge, action, and identify what they want out of life, themselves, and their surroundings. We are externally affected by outside factors such as noise, pollution of detrimental words, chaos, finances, bills, job, work, people, friends, spirit, and many others. How we process and accept or reject these external factors is up to us. We have a filter, and can transition meaningless negative issues into meaningful opportunities. We have this ability through action and choice. We choose our action, and how we react. How we react to things defines our identity. I believe in karma, the golden rule, and lemans terms, “what goes around, comes around”. Maybe not immediately, but your subconscious will create a butterfly affect to your life and conscious from your thoughts and actions. Yet another thing we control, our thoughts. Behaviors are reinforced through repeated patterns in our daily lives. I feel perfect practice wins the game, not just practice. If we don’t change the patterns that are detrimental, identify them, utilize our power and gift of choice, we will self implode. We as a person and our ego will be the “next Roman Empire”. If we are depressed, we have the power and responsibility to change, fix, repair, and change this. Address, define, solve, action, reconcile, forgive, assist, help, guide, encourage, support, ourselves and others. Our community needs business, business needs community. Society is affected through many ways. Culture, values, business, focus, agenda, military, war, poverty, good and bad things… if we don’t address these things internally and look at the bigger external picture, we will be aimlessly drifting, and become restless starving souls. What are you starving and restless for? We need to reflect, and think, then take action, it’s our duty to our spirit, mind, and body!
Learning Styles: assimilating, diverging, converging ~ combinations, balance/harmony
I believe we can learn from so many things. Watching how animals interact, puppies play, the values children exhibit in a sandbox or on a recess team, janitor, CEO, parents, peers, volunteering, job, boss, co workers, friends, church, music, tv, books/magazines, movies, and on and on. What we see, pay attention to, listen to, feel, taste, and feel creates tiny chemical reactions to our memory muscle and spirit. We literally are what we eat, sleep, think, act, and feel. We are like a filter, and what we think, feel, and do defines who we are. We can learn through self reflection, interaction, teams, and many other ways. Like it’s our duty to improve and reflect, it’s our duty to learn, and aim for progress. We do this alone, through fellowship/community, or not at all. We learn through observation, our environment, surroundings, feelings, sounds, and many other avenues. Our brain is a muscle that needs stimulation just like benching for larger pectorals, one needs to exercise their heart and mind. They’re muscles, two of the most important, yet exercised less and less through the business world. Love, your heart, and mind, are things that need attention. The style of learning one should devote themselves too, no matter the path or dream, needs to address that!
Values Clarification
What are your values? What shakes your core? If you were an onion, and all your layers were peeled back, what would someone discover about you? What’s at the heart of it all? What do you stand for? Are you here to use the trees for oxygen, or here to utilize your gifts and talents to make a statement? Defining what’s important to you is important. It’s the basis for your being. The actions you take in life are based on your principals of decision making. How do you make decisions? Are the self serving, or better the whole? Does it better yourself, or is it dissipating your soul? Time waits for no person. How do you spend your time? How do you allocate your actions during that time? These are things that need reflected upon, and define your values! If you were the lemon, are you ripe, yellow, add great flavor, or rotten, wasting away, not open, and leave a bad taste someone else? You need to be ripe, value adding, reflective, open, serving, and with integrity! How one reacts to obstacles, defines their spirit.
Developing self awareness
1)list two adjectives that describe your favorite animal (Giraffe – tall, strong, also polar bear) *how you see yourself
2)List two adjectives that describe your 2nd favorite animal (Kangaroo – courage, fast)
*how others see you
3)List two adjectives to describe the ocean (open, soothing) * how you view life
4)List two adjectives that describe the sky (changing, beautiful) *how you view death
4 areas of self awareness
Values – system, cultural, personal
Learning – style, assimilate, coverage, diverge, accommodate
Attitude towards change – ambiguity, resist, welcome
Interpersonal – how you work internally and externally
Stress Management –
Strategies, enhance resilience, coping mechanisms. Exercise, sleep, avoid, confront, fuel energy towards different things. Create options, connect to soothing environments and items.
“Stress is a crucial, yet neglected aspect of professional life” – Jacqueline Golston 3/22/07
Stressors:Meditation, culture, child care, home, work, technology, noise, leadership
Plan, predict, action, change, pressure, mold, shape, form, squeeze, integrate, communicate. Visible, non visible, approaches, shift of blame vs. change, “pity parties”, lack of cohesion with self and others. “Fish rots from the head”.
Stress Management
Strategies, resilience, coping
Work, life, balance, harmony, family, friends, career, culture, society, money, bills, home, children, success/failure, technology (email, phone, noise)
There are visible and non visible elements of life that distract, cause stress, and impair us!
It’s not the hours you put into something, it’s what you put into the hours. “Fish rots from the head”. Eliminate micromanagement and tunnel vision.
Reinforce and enforce boundaries, eliminate anxiety and fear.
5 types of defense mechanisms
Aggression – harm and pain
Regresion – unaccepted impulses
Repression – exclude desires and impulses
Withdraw – remove
Fixation – obsess, think about contantly
Stressors – conflict, people, change, time, roles, money, control, tasks, environment, expectations, fear
Social, Psychological, Body (Mind, Body, Spirit)
Consequences – immune, mental, unhealthy, lack cohesion, burn out, changes
Coping – action, new environment, proactive, reactive, boundaries, short and long term
Improve stress management – reduction Candace Alexander, Med
Personal operations, perspectives, stress, distress, different responses, different stresses, different people
Therapeutic – exercise, relax, breath, silence, sleep, rest, exertion, release
Mind, Body, Spirit, cohesion, spirit
Displace noise and anxiety
Meditate, breath
Prayer – spirit, discover, peel away the layers of the onion
Relax – learn, enjoy, progressive, muscle relaxation, mind relaxation, form bond, shape, form, breath, stretch, exercise, guide, create
Lemon Test – trust, breath, fragrance, sound, hear, taste, feel, open eyes, focus, see!
Every organ in the body – mind, trust, induce deliciousness
Massage the mind and body, conscious and subconscious, conjugate, congruent, words, talk, experience, pool of memories, tastes, smell, memories
Empowering – guided imagery, illustrations, memory and concentration
Secrets to meditation – mind – connect to conscious + health + psyche
Visualization, Music – Sound – Smell and in the center = relax, experience, feel, mind
Things are more simple than we make them sometimes. We create the things around and in us. Define, wake up, realize, goal setting, voice, verbiage, balance, moments, harmony.
Things to Self Improve –
Utilize goals, take action, no excuses, no shifting of blame, but focus on change
Skills Application
Application plan and education
Problem solving and Conflict management
Managing stressors, teams, self awareness, skill analysis, discussion, listening
Be kind, say thank you, say sorry, my pleasure, add positive words to vocabulary, take pleasure in the simple and daily activities, don’t be the hate you hate, feel, sympathy, get involved, participate, volunteer, provide service, be aware, share, different ships but on same boat! Give compliments, be curious, be true, and have honor/respect. Listen to your tone and voice. What are you standing for and saying? What do you convey with your actions?
Eliminate noise, slow down, build bonds, share, connect, feel and fuel energy towards passions. Align professional and personal goals.
Where a person is at a point in time is not always the address you think they’re at! Ask who, what, when, where, and why! Encourage and support. Provide guidance.
Techniques to destroy self awareness – mental, physical, isolation, humiliation, noise, silence, exclusion, starve them of something.
Strengths and contribute – identity, give purpose and focus, involve, talk with, enjoy and celebrate, match skill stress, rehab with breaking repeated patterns, hypnotherapy, aroma therapy. Divert with thoughts, meaning, purpose, eliminate friction, and reflections. Change, rebuild, rehab, reconcile, clear, concise, consistent, focus, value systems, basis, environment, treatment, pressures, stress, discuss past, and patterns.
Strategically and systematically listen, think, reflect, set goals, set steps to goals, take action on steps, have guidance on challenges, encourage, interact, have humor, take risk, grow, exercise mind, body, and spirit. Change environment and atmosphere. Match life to work, have balance, and harmony.
Individual Management / Networking Interview
Brian Siegel
MGMT 902
Natalie Short, MEd and principal license, Educator, 5/6th grade English
Winton Woods Elementary, also taught at Rockdale in Avondale for 2 years.
Pursuing administrative positions, primarily assistant principal positions
Taught for 7 years
Leadership – self, others, example to children
Responsibilities and Position (Teacher and head teacher)
1)Changes in organization that have occurred, and how handled. What would you have done differently?
Changes – you have to become highly qualified, get masters, prove you can teach subjects through the achievement tests, “HQT” Highly Qualified Teacher. If you’re not “qualified you can’t teach”. No child left behind law changes what one teaches daily. Budgets affect teachers being laid of “riffed”, you get evaluated based on test scores, state mandated testing. Government directly affects organization. Changes would be to increase the 3% - 7% funding comes from government, yet 100% of that is based on what is aligned with the state rules and government the funding should be able to be controlled by the schools and state. Too many mandates from the federal government with small pay. Would appreciate the government leaders to participate more in the schools, perhaps teach for a while to understand. Require leaders who control funds to be more in tune with what’s going on with education , culture, society, and the day to day activities that go on. The way OH public schools are funded are “unconstitutional” by how the taxes are higher due to property such as Indian Hill or somewhere more “astute” get more funding, money is not distributed equally so children get equal treatment.
2)Tech and interpersonal skills/examples:
Tech – Email has become more prevalent. Online services, power point, computer classes, online grading, communication with parents and teachers through email and computers. Accessible 24 hours. It’s become somewhat less personal, but more things are not able to be hidden. The internet is utilized more. The results are obtained more quickly, so testing can be done more efficiently. Grading is easier due to the faster grading. Faster communication, “value added” scores from “algorithms” that determine measures of importance from tests and information that is combined to judge the adequacy of programs and tests. Technology increases to increase faster communication, grading, testing, and growth.
3)Creativity, innovation, and skills measured? Who guides and directs this? Discussions?
Yearly evaluations are determined primarily by the averages of test scores. The way students are performed determine the competency of the teacher. If a school is not testing well, the funding decreases for that location. It creates a cyclical turn over or “riffing”, and roller coaster support, leadership, and budgets. It also relates to how people vote on levies, taxes, charter schools, hire, lay off, performance, the state report card, adequate yearly progress (AYP), state control, and if people change schools/move. The scores have been really affected by school achievement tests. A teacher is deemed “creative and innovative” by the scores. The test is a larger focus than the actual student. Almost like a person that is a “number” in a bureaucracy vs. someone that is a truly unique individual. The classrooms also contain members that are on different learning levels versus combining the higher and lower scoring groups accordingly. The state, congress, governor, and budgets control this, taxpayers, and society. If they don’t believe in the schools performance, they don’t win votes.
4)Diverse?
A larger focus has been placed on diversity. Lower performing students are more frequently the minority groups. The goals of the leaders and teachers is to close the gap between the minority students and increase their position on the “adequate yearly progress”. Teachers are made to detail a plan for these groups, and take action to assist them on the testing. More equality is placed on creating sub groups, pull the sub group, and prove you’re reaching “all children”, “no child left behind”, every student shall pass and have detailed plans for that group or student. A sub group is defined by race and income. It’s almost like affirmative action for students. Uniforms have been mainstream to create similarities between a person of higher and lower income families, and create an environment that is equal. Male, female, race, ethnicity, are complied in sub groups for state funding. Opportunities are created to address the issues of maximizing “adequately yearly progress”. It works if the teachers are motivated to work this system, track with technology, and take a passionate action and involvement in student’s success. Teachers need time and support to make this happen and improve scores. Support and technology assist in this materializing. It’s believed to give every student no matter race or economic background to do whatever it takes to help every child, be equal, and fair. If all schools had the technology, better budgets, and better funding, then it could work better. Also hiring motivated and quality staff, leadership, and teachers would facilitate success. Better tax breaks, things to do to assist educators such as possibly being tax exempt, better access to programs, and allowances for gifts and rewards could improve the process. People with the passion for teaching and education make this process work. Government needs to have the same passion that teachers have when making programs and funding/tax allocation for these programs. They need to put their money where their mouth is. NCLB, no child left behind, but seems government makes things appear good on paper, but then leaves the schools and riffs teachers behinds. As far as staff, there are attempts and meetings behind closed doors to emphasize filling positions that make a better mix of leadership and staff. There are not set policies, but it’s the “unwritten” policy. Hopefully this doesn’t focus on hiring someone less qualified due to background. But, there is a more need for male elementary teachers, minorities have made up a larger portion of hiring the past five years, but this correlates to the student minority population increase, culture, society, and emphasis on diversity. Diversity is important, needed, and emphasized. This relates to how students interact, what they see, how they’re taught, and learning different perspectives from different people.
5)Problems and benefits encounter with diversity?
The benefits are that it’s wonderful for students, but sometimes there can be difficult when you may be a minority staff member. You can feel “outnumbered”, take on more stressors, benefit the students with different perspectives, but with staff it’s a “different ball game”. It’s great if you’re open to it, but not if your team is not open. The people around you need to be open, accepting, diverse, caring, and acknowledge others ideas, work, and opinion no matter ethnicity or background. Humanity can get in the way, peoples upbringing, perspectives, experiences, and quick judgments can impair progression.
6)Diversity training? Describe
It’s discussed in terms of the sub groups and testing, but there has been no “formal” training for diversity or a sensitivity class. It’s a personal and individual thing. There needs to be more development in this area. It’s addressed lightly in terms of situations such as poverty students and minorities, but is’ almost something that’s required, not that everyone believes in it. It’s a group, put in a box, deemed less, requiring more attention, judged based on numbers, and limited by programs. It’s not affirmative action based on ethnicity, but action based on numbers, scores, and the way your categories. Categories are now defined as “MR”, multi racial, and you’d have 100’s of categories if you based your decisions on how you label someone. We’re coming up with better ways to define and take action with students that need more help and testing. A lot of it has to do with the upbringing and individual ideas and thoughts of the teachers too, which is affected by classes and where one is from, but not “trained”, it has to arrive from within.
7)Teams? Who and when use? +’s and –‘s.
There are grade level teams and subject area teams. These are utilized to converse about students and the programs. Enough time needs to be allocated for better lesson plans for the classrooms and students. Time is usually an issue. They’re primarily for teachers to benefit the students. Certified staff only, classified not requires, whoever affects lesson plans are required to be present and involved. So many meetings are required, documented, formats followed, and filed with the school for required union requirements. A lot of grievances are filed when time/hrs for after hours are attempted to be “stretched” out. Have to preface as “not required”, but should be there. So many after school conferences and communication is mandated. The union and contracts define these guidelines, teachers are a union. Created for teachers by teachers.
8)what skills matter most in forming teams and high level positions?
It is based on the ideas and opinions of the principal. The superintendent and school board controls the principals, who controls the teachers. Requirements to be on the school boards are that you have to be 18. It’s more political than anything. Relationships and interacting with people are important factors in forming these types of teams. Leadership, integrity, honesty, budgeting, financial, just like anything a normal boss that needs to lead and manage, how to do both, have a good mix, and good decision making abilities.
9)Skills, attributes, characteristics that enjoy in favorite leaders?
People who empower your staff to move on, displace personal goals and create administrators, people skills that allow to instill qualities and capabilities to progress to the next level. Create an internal dynasty so to speak. Discover the needs of people, listen, take time, interact, support, and guide people on their teaching journey.
10)Conflict management, how handled, process…
You go through the union, file grievances, then to school board, and if action isn’t taken in a manner you want, you can hire an attorney. You can also take minor issues to the principal, discuss with the person you have an issue with, but if it’s serious, the board and union needs to support and direct you. Issues go to the judicial system if it becomes a criminal case and if it goes out of the realms of the school board and union. Union rep, individuals, mediation, meetings, school board, union, and courts are means to solving issues. A book of rules and regulations are created. Just like a business, there is a chain of command, loop holes, politics, people to deal with, boards who can manipulate issues and situations, and ways to go around processes from the beginning of the issue, laws, posting announcements, putting info in paper, dealing with parents, meeting with students, taking to office, punishment, fairness, issues between parents and principal. There are protocols for all these issues, specific rules, and regulations. They must be followed. The school is there to completely support the students first, and other venues get involved depending on the allegation(s).
*goals, how obtained?
Goals are to provide each child with best education possible, for all students, find academic needs, enjoy learning, life skills, be life learners, pay learning forward, enhance quality of life, have energy and integrity, instill inspiration, form path, enjoy journey, be a professor of education to help students get the best teachers who are focused on education vs. summers off and apples on their desks, and help everyone be successful. This is done through continuing to learn, being open, having energy, having passion, practicing what one preaches, professional development, and loving what one does. Having passion, drive, and caring about what you’re doing really reflects on how the students will learn, and if they will be open and have a passion for learning. If you’re excited, they’ll be excited. You have to explain the bigger picture, get involved, and be an integral part of their lives the short time you’re going to be in their lives, and affect it forever. Do the right things for the right reasons, not just to have summers off, not do a 9-5 job, benefit others, not just self, have balance, harmony, and truly enjoy enhancing and providing knowledge, as well as being open to learning yourself. This has been achieved through networking, learning, classes, listening to parents, society, students, colleagues, and gaining credibility through college, masters, principal license, and continually developing ones self and others around them.
Team diagnosis project
Brian Siegel
MGMT 902
Children’s Play Group (after interview with teacher)
Forming, norming, storm, dissolve
Children on a play ground, “project playtime”
Start as smiles and giggles at the start of their freedom on the playground. The world, swing set, and sand box is their oyster. Some assist on sand renovation and innovative castle building and truck relocation. Some throw football, some assist on the swings.
Arguments occur over the next person to have toy, swing, and have a chance to throw the football. Attention is needed, more introvert children remain calms, and to themselves. The extroverts demand attention, the “squeaky wheel gets the grease”, and the demand/receive their way without hesitation. Whatever it takes to maintain the peace from maturing to mayhem. Some children have enough maturity at a young age to share toys, switch on the swings, and share the football.
As adults we aren’t far off from the children. Jealousy of positions and pay, comparisons, and not getting what we want. The toys are just bigger like yahts, expensive cars, larger homes, and other things that create noise. We like our comfort, some are hospitable and share in their sandbox of life, but others clinch to their coach purses and overpriced golf clubs like they fulfill the water and blood your body needs to live. We could learn from watching our own interactions, and those of children. There are many groups we could metaphorically diagnose, define, and document their design, model and interactions of teams. Like Indians, how they form circles, and have community living. They stored and used a JIT system before any six sigma presentation. Monkeys care for their children almost as humans, just without blackberries and the internet. There are many other groups we can learn from. Sports teams need to develop all links, bring along the weakest link, and strengthen their fundamental movements. After their learned, the basics applied and understood, they are shaped and formed into the persona of the movements of individuals, then interaction proceeds to the team. The team then consists of different personas, all acting as one unit. They need to understand, respect, trust, work hard, and interact in an efficient manner to win.
Adults and children resemble each other greatly! We all need to acknowledge, support, interact, engage, and respect each other. The toys and stakes just get larger! More money, jobs become important, and toys go from Tonka to upscale SUV’s, P&L statements, and homes. We need to refocus and regroup sometimes and realize the more important things and picture, which we learn on the playground and from each other.
Project Idea: team interaction
Bonding, creativity, team interaction
1)get in “birthday groups” then fill out cards (fav ice cream, fav quality/attribute of self and leaders, favorite friend/person in life, dream job, doing dream job, stresses, most kind thing someone has done for you, identify with #’s (passwords to 5/3 account if have, ha, for security if want , we’re sharing these! “what do you bring to the fire” fuel or put out? Change? Closed or open? Like Indians! Community/interact/trust/talk
2)form desks in a circle, connecting the whole room, time limit of 1 min 30 sec
3)have basket, put cards in the baskets, mix them up, pass a flashlight around, point at someone to pick one out and read with lights off… share, bond, learn, interact
Overcome barriers, weirdness, obstacles, people, physical/mental barriers, reactions, together, community, groups, circle, karma, creative, analytical, different perspectives/difficult personalities, operations, leadership, environment, steps to processes, choice, delegate, communicate, collaborate, listen, time, manage, call out, single out, feel, enough staff, options, choices, assumptions, materials, noise, lights, guide, directed well, round table, different, apply meaning, pressures, connect, mix, pass or address
Mahala! Thank you in Hawaiian like the alphabet, 12 letters, one symble, simple, yet communicate just as clear as we do, more is not better, more can be less… change systems.
2 Skills analysis:
Admitting failure at Pearl Harbor
US vs. Japan
Resources, listen to signs, communicate, codes, decipher, distraction, interpretations/perceptions, limit, attention, warning signs, listen, left too much decision making ability and action to others, decentral/centralize, lead!, noise, allocate correctly, take lead, take seriously, use channels of communication, plug in, inferences, do not take at face value
*team, use resources, communicate, can’t take at face value
Newspaper –
Create bonds = stronger team due to behavioral psychology, interact, build bonds, communicate, create synergy, energy, build together, interact = success!
TEAM, people core contributions are the most valuable assets (themselves!)
MGMT 902
Journal
Locus of Control
I believe God has granted us with the ability and freedom of choice. We are as limited as we limit ourselves. One needs to take charge, action, and identify what they want out of life, themselves, and their surroundings. We are externally affected by outside factors such as noise, pollution of detrimental words, chaos, finances, bills, job, work, people, friends, spirit, and many others. How we process and accept or reject these external factors is up to us. We have a filter, and can transition meaningless negative issues into meaningful opportunities. We have this ability through action and choice. We choose our action, and how we react. How we react to things defines our identity. I believe in karma, the golden rule, and lemans terms, “what goes around, comes around”. Maybe not immediately, but your subconscious will create a butterfly affect to your life and conscious from your thoughts and actions. Yet another thing we control, our thoughts. Behaviors are reinforced through repeated patterns in our daily lives. I feel perfect practice wins the game, not just practice. If we don’t change the patterns that are detrimental, identify them, utilize our power and gift of choice, we will self implode. We as a person and our ego will be the “next Roman Empire”. If we are depressed, we have the power and responsibility to change, fix, repair, and change this. Address, define, solve, action, reconcile, forgive, assist, help, guide, encourage, support, ourselves and others. Our community needs business, business needs community. Society is affected through many ways. Culture, values, business, focus, agenda, military, war, poverty, good and bad things… if we don’t address these things internally and look at the bigger external picture, we will be aimlessly drifting, and become restless starving souls. What are you starving and restless for? We need to reflect, and think, then take action, it’s our duty to our spirit, mind, and body!
Learning Styles: assimilating, diverging, converging ~ combinations, balance/harmony
I believe we can learn from so many things. Watching how animals interact, puppies play, the values children exhibit in a sandbox or on a recess team, janitor, CEO, parents, peers, volunteering, job, boss, co workers, friends, church, music, tv, books/magazines, movies, and on and on. What we see, pay attention to, listen to, feel, taste, and feel creates tiny chemical reactions to our memory muscle and spirit. We literally are what we eat, sleep, think, act, and feel. We are like a filter, and what we think, feel, and do defines who we are. We can learn through self reflection, interaction, teams, and many other ways. Like it’s our duty to improve and reflect, it’s our duty to learn, and aim for progress. We do this alone, through fellowship/community, or not at all. We learn through observation, our environment, surroundings, feelings, sounds, and many other avenues. Our brain is a muscle that needs stimulation just like benching for larger pectorals, one needs to exercise their heart and mind. They’re muscles, two of the most important, yet exercised less and less through the business world. Love, your heart, and mind, are things that need attention. The style of learning one should devote themselves too, no matter the path or dream, needs to address that!
Values Clarification
What are your values? What shakes your core? If you were an onion, and all your layers were peeled back, what would someone discover about you? What’s at the heart of it all? What do you stand for? Are you here to use the trees for oxygen, or here to utilize your gifts and talents to make a statement? Defining what’s important to you is important. It’s the basis for your being. The actions you take in life are based on your principals of decision making. How do you make decisions? Are the self serving, or better the whole? Does it better yourself, or is it dissipating your soul? Time waits for no person. How do you spend your time? How do you allocate your actions during that time? These are things that need reflected upon, and define your values! If you were the lemon, are you ripe, yellow, add great flavor, or rotten, wasting away, not open, and leave a bad taste someone else? You need to be ripe, value adding, reflective, open, serving, and with integrity! How one reacts to obstacles, defines their spirit.
Developing self awareness
1)list two adjectives that describe your favorite animal (Giraffe – tall, strong, also polar bear) *how you see yourself
2)List two adjectives that describe your 2nd favorite animal (Kangaroo – courage, fast)
*how others see you
3)List two adjectives to describe the ocean (open, soothing) * how you view life
4)List two adjectives that describe the sky (changing, beautiful) *how you view death
4 areas of self awareness
Values – system, cultural, personal
Learning – style, assimilate, coverage, diverge, accommodate
Attitude towards change – ambiguity, resist, welcome
Interpersonal – how you work internally and externally
Stress Management –
Strategies, enhance resilience, coping mechanisms. Exercise, sleep, avoid, confront, fuel energy towards different things. Create options, connect to soothing environments and items.
“Stress is a crucial, yet neglected aspect of professional life” – Jacqueline Golston 3/22/07
Stressors:Meditation, culture, child care, home, work, technology, noise, leadership
Plan, predict, action, change, pressure, mold, shape, form, squeeze, integrate, communicate. Visible, non visible, approaches, shift of blame vs. change, “pity parties”, lack of cohesion with self and others. “Fish rots from the head”.
Stress Management
Strategies, resilience, coping
Work, life, balance, harmony, family, friends, career, culture, society, money, bills, home, children, success/failure, technology (email, phone, noise)
There are visible and non visible elements of life that distract, cause stress, and impair us!
It’s not the hours you put into something, it’s what you put into the hours. “Fish rots from the head”. Eliminate micromanagement and tunnel vision.
Reinforce and enforce boundaries, eliminate anxiety and fear.
5 types of defense mechanisms
Aggression – harm and pain
Regresion – unaccepted impulses
Repression – exclude desires and impulses
Withdraw – remove
Fixation – obsess, think about contantly
Stressors – conflict, people, change, time, roles, money, control, tasks, environment, expectations, fear
Social, Psychological, Body (Mind, Body, Spirit)
Consequences – immune, mental, unhealthy, lack cohesion, burn out, changes
Coping – action, new environment, proactive, reactive, boundaries, short and long term
Improve stress management – reduction Candace Alexander, Med
Personal operations, perspectives, stress, distress, different responses, different stresses, different people
Therapeutic – exercise, relax, breath, silence, sleep, rest, exertion, release
Mind, Body, Spirit, cohesion, spirit
Displace noise and anxiety
Meditate, breath
Prayer – spirit, discover, peel away the layers of the onion
Relax – learn, enjoy, progressive, muscle relaxation, mind relaxation, form bond, shape, form, breath, stretch, exercise, guide, create
Lemon Test – trust, breath, fragrance, sound, hear, taste, feel, open eyes, focus, see!
Every organ in the body – mind, trust, induce deliciousness
Massage the mind and body, conscious and subconscious, conjugate, congruent, words, talk, experience, pool of memories, tastes, smell, memories
Empowering – guided imagery, illustrations, memory and concentration
Secrets to meditation – mind – connect to conscious + health + psyche
Visualization, Music – Sound – Smell and in the center = relax, experience, feel, mind
Things are more simple than we make them sometimes. We create the things around and in us. Define, wake up, realize, goal setting, voice, verbiage, balance, moments, harmony.
Things to Self Improve –
Utilize goals, take action, no excuses, no shifting of blame, but focus on change
Skills Application
Application plan and education
Problem solving and Conflict management
Managing stressors, teams, self awareness, skill analysis, discussion, listening
Be kind, say thank you, say sorry, my pleasure, add positive words to vocabulary, take pleasure in the simple and daily activities, don’t be the hate you hate, feel, sympathy, get involved, participate, volunteer, provide service, be aware, share, different ships but on same boat! Give compliments, be curious, be true, and have honor/respect. Listen to your tone and voice. What are you standing for and saying? What do you convey with your actions?
Eliminate noise, slow down, build bonds, share, connect, feel and fuel energy towards passions. Align professional and personal goals.
Where a person is at a point in time is not always the address you think they’re at! Ask who, what, when, where, and why! Encourage and support. Provide guidance.
Techniques to destroy self awareness – mental, physical, isolation, humiliation, noise, silence, exclusion, starve them of something.
Strengths and contribute – identity, give purpose and focus, involve, talk with, enjoy and celebrate, match skill stress, rehab with breaking repeated patterns, hypnotherapy, aroma therapy. Divert with thoughts, meaning, purpose, eliminate friction, and reflections. Change, rebuild, rehab, reconcile, clear, concise, consistent, focus, value systems, basis, environment, treatment, pressures, stress, discuss past, and patterns.
Strategically and systematically listen, think, reflect, set goals, set steps to goals, take action on steps, have guidance on challenges, encourage, interact, have humor, take risk, grow, exercise mind, body, and spirit. Change environment and atmosphere. Match life to work, have balance, and harmony.
Individual Management / Networking Interview
Brian Siegel
MGMT 902
Natalie Short, MEd and principal license, Educator, 5/6th grade English
Winton Woods Elementary, also taught at Rockdale in Avondale for 2 years.
Pursuing administrative positions, primarily assistant principal positions
Taught for 7 years
Leadership – self, others, example to children
Responsibilities and Position (Teacher and head teacher)
1)Changes in organization that have occurred, and how handled. What would you have done differently?
Changes – you have to become highly qualified, get masters, prove you can teach subjects through the achievement tests, “HQT” Highly Qualified Teacher. If you’re not “qualified you can’t teach”. No child left behind law changes what one teaches daily. Budgets affect teachers being laid of “riffed”, you get evaluated based on test scores, state mandated testing. Government directly affects organization. Changes would be to increase the 3% - 7% funding comes from government, yet 100% of that is based on what is aligned with the state rules and government the funding should be able to be controlled by the schools and state. Too many mandates from the federal government with small pay. Would appreciate the government leaders to participate more in the schools, perhaps teach for a while to understand. Require leaders who control funds to be more in tune with what’s going on with education , culture, society, and the day to day activities that go on. The way OH public schools are funded are “unconstitutional” by how the taxes are higher due to property such as Indian Hill or somewhere more “astute” get more funding, money is not distributed equally so children get equal treatment.
2)Tech and interpersonal skills/examples:
Tech – Email has become more prevalent. Online services, power point, computer classes, online grading, communication with parents and teachers through email and computers. Accessible 24 hours. It’s become somewhat less personal, but more things are not able to be hidden. The internet is utilized more. The results are obtained more quickly, so testing can be done more efficiently. Grading is easier due to the faster grading. Faster communication, “value added” scores from “algorithms” that determine measures of importance from tests and information that is combined to judge the adequacy of programs and tests. Technology increases to increase faster communication, grading, testing, and growth.
3)Creativity, innovation, and skills measured? Who guides and directs this? Discussions?
Yearly evaluations are determined primarily by the averages of test scores. The way students are performed determine the competency of the teacher. If a school is not testing well, the funding decreases for that location. It creates a cyclical turn over or “riffing”, and roller coaster support, leadership, and budgets. It also relates to how people vote on levies, taxes, charter schools, hire, lay off, performance, the state report card, adequate yearly progress (AYP), state control, and if people change schools/move. The scores have been really affected by school achievement tests. A teacher is deemed “creative and innovative” by the scores. The test is a larger focus than the actual student. Almost like a person that is a “number” in a bureaucracy vs. someone that is a truly unique individual. The classrooms also contain members that are on different learning levels versus combining the higher and lower scoring groups accordingly. The state, congress, governor, and budgets control this, taxpayers, and society. If they don’t believe in the schools performance, they don’t win votes.
4)Diverse?
A larger focus has been placed on diversity. Lower performing students are more frequently the minority groups. The goals of the leaders and teachers is to close the gap between the minority students and increase their position on the “adequate yearly progress”. Teachers are made to detail a plan for these groups, and take action to assist them on the testing. More equality is placed on creating sub groups, pull the sub group, and prove you’re reaching “all children”, “no child left behind”, every student shall pass and have detailed plans for that group or student. A sub group is defined by race and income. It’s almost like affirmative action for students. Uniforms have been mainstream to create similarities between a person of higher and lower income families, and create an environment that is equal. Male, female, race, ethnicity, are complied in sub groups for state funding. Opportunities are created to address the issues of maximizing “adequately yearly progress”. It works if the teachers are motivated to work this system, track with technology, and take a passionate action and involvement in student’s success. Teachers need time and support to make this happen and improve scores. Support and technology assist in this materializing. It’s believed to give every student no matter race or economic background to do whatever it takes to help every child, be equal, and fair. If all schools had the technology, better budgets, and better funding, then it could work better. Also hiring motivated and quality staff, leadership, and teachers would facilitate success. Better tax breaks, things to do to assist educators such as possibly being tax exempt, better access to programs, and allowances for gifts and rewards could improve the process. People with the passion for teaching and education make this process work. Government needs to have the same passion that teachers have when making programs and funding/tax allocation for these programs. They need to put their money where their mouth is. NCLB, no child left behind, but seems government makes things appear good on paper, but then leaves the schools and riffs teachers behinds. As far as staff, there are attempts and meetings behind closed doors to emphasize filling positions that make a better mix of leadership and staff. There are not set policies, but it’s the “unwritten” policy. Hopefully this doesn’t focus on hiring someone less qualified due to background. But, there is a more need for male elementary teachers, minorities have made up a larger portion of hiring the past five years, but this correlates to the student minority population increase, culture, society, and emphasis on diversity. Diversity is important, needed, and emphasized. This relates to how students interact, what they see, how they’re taught, and learning different perspectives from different people.
5)Problems and benefits encounter with diversity?
The benefits are that it’s wonderful for students, but sometimes there can be difficult when you may be a minority staff member. You can feel “outnumbered”, take on more stressors, benefit the students with different perspectives, but with staff it’s a “different ball game”. It’s great if you’re open to it, but not if your team is not open. The people around you need to be open, accepting, diverse, caring, and acknowledge others ideas, work, and opinion no matter ethnicity or background. Humanity can get in the way, peoples upbringing, perspectives, experiences, and quick judgments can impair progression.
6)Diversity training? Describe
It’s discussed in terms of the sub groups and testing, but there has been no “formal” training for diversity or a sensitivity class. It’s a personal and individual thing. There needs to be more development in this area. It’s addressed lightly in terms of situations such as poverty students and minorities, but is’ almost something that’s required, not that everyone believes in it. It’s a group, put in a box, deemed less, requiring more attention, judged based on numbers, and limited by programs. It’s not affirmative action based on ethnicity, but action based on numbers, scores, and the way your categories. Categories are now defined as “MR”, multi racial, and you’d have 100’s of categories if you based your decisions on how you label someone. We’re coming up with better ways to define and take action with students that need more help and testing. A lot of it has to do with the upbringing and individual ideas and thoughts of the teachers too, which is affected by classes and where one is from, but not “trained”, it has to arrive from within.
7)Teams? Who and when use? +’s and –‘s.
There are grade level teams and subject area teams. These are utilized to converse about students and the programs. Enough time needs to be allocated for better lesson plans for the classrooms and students. Time is usually an issue. They’re primarily for teachers to benefit the students. Certified staff only, classified not requires, whoever affects lesson plans are required to be present and involved. So many meetings are required, documented, formats followed, and filed with the school for required union requirements. A lot of grievances are filed when time/hrs for after hours are attempted to be “stretched” out. Have to preface as “not required”, but should be there. So many after school conferences and communication is mandated. The union and contracts define these guidelines, teachers are a union. Created for teachers by teachers.
8)what skills matter most in forming teams and high level positions?
It is based on the ideas and opinions of the principal. The superintendent and school board controls the principals, who controls the teachers. Requirements to be on the school boards are that you have to be 18. It’s more political than anything. Relationships and interacting with people are important factors in forming these types of teams. Leadership, integrity, honesty, budgeting, financial, just like anything a normal boss that needs to lead and manage, how to do both, have a good mix, and good decision making abilities.
9)Skills, attributes, characteristics that enjoy in favorite leaders?
People who empower your staff to move on, displace personal goals and create administrators, people skills that allow to instill qualities and capabilities to progress to the next level. Create an internal dynasty so to speak. Discover the needs of people, listen, take time, interact, support, and guide people on their teaching journey.
10)Conflict management, how handled, process…
You go through the union, file grievances, then to school board, and if action isn’t taken in a manner you want, you can hire an attorney. You can also take minor issues to the principal, discuss with the person you have an issue with, but if it’s serious, the board and union needs to support and direct you. Issues go to the judicial system if it becomes a criminal case and if it goes out of the realms of the school board and union. Union rep, individuals, mediation, meetings, school board, union, and courts are means to solving issues. A book of rules and regulations are created. Just like a business, there is a chain of command, loop holes, politics, people to deal with, boards who can manipulate issues and situations, and ways to go around processes from the beginning of the issue, laws, posting announcements, putting info in paper, dealing with parents, meeting with students, taking to office, punishment, fairness, issues between parents and principal. There are protocols for all these issues, specific rules, and regulations. They must be followed. The school is there to completely support the students first, and other venues get involved depending on the allegation(s).
*goals, how obtained?
Goals are to provide each child with best education possible, for all students, find academic needs, enjoy learning, life skills, be life learners, pay learning forward, enhance quality of life, have energy and integrity, instill inspiration, form path, enjoy journey, be a professor of education to help students get the best teachers who are focused on education vs. summers off and apples on their desks, and help everyone be successful. This is done through continuing to learn, being open, having energy, having passion, practicing what one preaches, professional development, and loving what one does. Having passion, drive, and caring about what you’re doing really reflects on how the students will learn, and if they will be open and have a passion for learning. If you’re excited, they’ll be excited. You have to explain the bigger picture, get involved, and be an integral part of their lives the short time you’re going to be in their lives, and affect it forever. Do the right things for the right reasons, not just to have summers off, not do a 9-5 job, benefit others, not just self, have balance, harmony, and truly enjoy enhancing and providing knowledge, as well as being open to learning yourself. This has been achieved through networking, learning, classes, listening to parents, society, students, colleagues, and gaining credibility through college, masters, principal license, and continually developing ones self and others around them.
Team diagnosis project
Brian Siegel
MGMT 902
Children’s Play Group (after interview with teacher)
Forming, norming, storm, dissolve
Children on a play ground, “project playtime”
Start as smiles and giggles at the start of their freedom on the playground. The world, swing set, and sand box is their oyster. Some assist on sand renovation and innovative castle building and truck relocation. Some throw football, some assist on the swings.
Arguments occur over the next person to have toy, swing, and have a chance to throw the football. Attention is needed, more introvert children remain calms, and to themselves. The extroverts demand attention, the “squeaky wheel gets the grease”, and the demand/receive their way without hesitation. Whatever it takes to maintain the peace from maturing to mayhem. Some children have enough maturity at a young age to share toys, switch on the swings, and share the football.
As adults we aren’t far off from the children. Jealousy of positions and pay, comparisons, and not getting what we want. The toys are just bigger like yahts, expensive cars, larger homes, and other things that create noise. We like our comfort, some are hospitable and share in their sandbox of life, but others clinch to their coach purses and overpriced golf clubs like they fulfill the water and blood your body needs to live. We could learn from watching our own interactions, and those of children. There are many groups we could metaphorically diagnose, define, and document their design, model and interactions of teams. Like Indians, how they form circles, and have community living. They stored and used a JIT system before any six sigma presentation. Monkeys care for their children almost as humans, just without blackberries and the internet. There are many other groups we can learn from. Sports teams need to develop all links, bring along the weakest link, and strengthen their fundamental movements. After their learned, the basics applied and understood, they are shaped and formed into the persona of the movements of individuals, then interaction proceeds to the team. The team then consists of different personas, all acting as one unit. They need to understand, respect, trust, work hard, and interact in an efficient manner to win.
Adults and children resemble each other greatly! We all need to acknowledge, support, interact, engage, and respect each other. The toys and stakes just get larger! More money, jobs become important, and toys go from Tonka to upscale SUV’s, P&L statements, and homes. We need to refocus and regroup sometimes and realize the more important things and picture, which we learn on the playground and from each other.
Project Idea: team interaction
Bonding, creativity, team interaction
1)get in “birthday groups” then fill out cards (fav ice cream, fav quality/attribute of self and leaders, favorite friend/person in life, dream job, doing dream job, stresses, most kind thing someone has done for you, identify with #’s (passwords to 5/3 account if have, ha, for security if want , we’re sharing these! “what do you bring to the fire” fuel or put out? Change? Closed or open? Like Indians! Community/interact/trust/talk
2)form desks in a circle, connecting the whole room, time limit of 1 min 30 sec
3)have basket, put cards in the baskets, mix them up, pass a flashlight around, point at someone to pick one out and read with lights off… share, bond, learn, interact
Overcome barriers, weirdness, obstacles, people, physical/mental barriers, reactions, together, community, groups, circle, karma, creative, analytical, different perspectives/difficult personalities, operations, leadership, environment, steps to processes, choice, delegate, communicate, collaborate, listen, time, manage, call out, single out, feel, enough staff, options, choices, assumptions, materials, noise, lights, guide, directed well, round table, different, apply meaning, pressures, connect, mix, pass or address
Mahala! Thank you in Hawaiian like the alphabet, 12 letters, one symble, simple, yet communicate just as clear as we do, more is not better, more can be less… change systems.
2 Skills analysis:
Admitting failure at Pearl Harbor
US vs. Japan
Resources, listen to signs, communicate, codes, decipher, distraction, interpretations/perceptions, limit, attention, warning signs, listen, left too much decision making ability and action to others, decentral/centralize, lead!, noise, allocate correctly, take lead, take seriously, use channels of communication, plug in, inferences, do not take at face value
*team, use resources, communicate, can’t take at face value
Newspaper –
Create bonds = stronger team due to behavioral psychology, interact, build bonds, communicate, create synergy, energy, build together, interact = success!
TEAM, people core contributions are the most valuable assets (themselves!)
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