Day 1 of Year Three Residency
The reason I started this blog in the first place was to chronicle my journey through the Management and Organizational Leadership doctoral program at the University of Phoenix. Today is the first day of my Year Three Residency – an on-the-ground class in Phoenix, AZ. The rest of my program is done exclusively online.
Our first assignment was to develop a “concise leadership statement” about our leadership style. This had to be prepared prior to our arrival in class. From that “concise leadership statement” we were to develop a one-sentence statement about our leadership style. Here is mine:
As a Servant Leader, I work to Empower those I work with to move beyond their current skill set and achieve greater things together than they could have achieved on their own.
I am told that this will change over the next five days as this class proceeds. We are also being asked to adjust how we ask questions of presenters. We are to start our questions with the phrase “I heard you say this…” paraphrase what was said and then ask the question. This is done to show that we were actively listening during the presentation. Our instructor has said that this is a very effective way to ask questions, get clarification for statements made during the presentation, and provide feedback and feedforward which is a new concept to me. More on that later as I learn more about it.
