This is a specific requirement of this essay required.
Based on a previous essay I have written, we need to write a reflection essay on it based around distributed leadership model (DLM)
before confirmation of order I will need to discuss with writer on the my previous assignment and my diary entries on how these can b help relate to this reflective esssay.
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brief of assignment
Leading Assignment 1B
Assignment 1(b): Reflective Leadership Journal (25%).
This assignment is a reflective assignment that is evidence-based. The evidence will be diary entries that will be used to inform your reflection. Learning to be reflexive is a key skill to develop in the work place as people will be telling you things about yourself. You have to decide how true or untrue they are.
Assignment 1b has two parts: diary entries and the Reflective Journal. The link between the two is that the diary entries will form the evidence, together with your Hero and Zero moments, that you will reflect upon in your Reflective Journal. If you have no diary entries, you can only reflect upon the Hero and Zero moments using the lenses provided by concepts in the course.
Diary entries: No marks – This is the evidence for the Reflection
In week 1, you will decide on how frequently you will make your diary entries. These diary entries can only be viewed by you and teaching staff in the unit. No one else can view them. Diary entries are voluntary. Please number your diary entries.
What are the diary entries about?
Every week, you are expected to complete the required readings and complete the pre-seminar activities as well as the post-seminar activities from the preceding week. Many of the seminars will also have activities. The outcomes of the activities form the evidence to support any conclusion you draw about yourself in the Reflection. The central issue in relation to these diary entries is quality. Of course you can simply answer ‘Yes’ or ‘No’, but the question is ‘Why?” – Why did I get this result? Why did the seminar group react in this way? What assumptions did I make that led to the outcome? How did those assumptions come to be? Why didn’t I do it the other way? Why didn’t I recognise that my classmate would react in that way? Your answers to these questions can, and should be, used as entries. If you find yourself writing “if only… then….” you are going off track.
You will also need to apply the course concepts to the Hero and Zero moments. In relation to the Hero/Zero moments, and for the diaries to be useful, don’t make it about hindsight i.e. “I should have done X, or I should not have been quiet”. The central question here is why did you do X in the first place? Or Why were you quiet in the first place?
Reflection (2,000 words) Due end Saturday, Calendar Week 8; Submit in Word Compatible format; fully referenced (diary entries as well as academic references) please include your name in the file name.
Using Witherspoon’s Practices, use the data from your 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 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.
· Using Witherspoon’s Practices, use the data from your 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.
· Advice on how to incorporate theory in your reflection:
Your Reflection needs to be more than just thinking about your Hero/Zero and diary entries. Your Reflection needs to apply theory to ground your analysis. So the focus is NOT to tell stories, but to ground your stories in theory. The question is why are you relating a particular incident? This incident must be used to illustrate the theory. So instead of saying “X hid in his office for large parts of the day”, say instead “sensemaking is social. This means it requires social interaction. By staying in his office the whole day, X was not interacting with people. Consequently his sensemaking was faulty.”
Now, the example I have given you is in itself incomplete so don’t go round reproducing it as a couple of important parts are left out. However it does demonstrate my point: I start off with theory (Red), explain it (green), then use the story to illustrate the theory (purple); and then conclude (orange)
In short, you need to introduce theory and use stories to illustrate the theory.