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Reflexive Learning

The purpose of this journal is to encourage personal reflection on the concepts and issues covered in the resource materials and to help you apply them to your own situation and to your personal leadership journey. Your personal journal is one of the ways of ensuring this course of study has impact and meaning for you and is not just a theoretical examination of leadership.

Activity - Your Readiness for Change

The aim of this activity is to encourage you to think about your own readiness to change. The relevance to leading change is that if you are generally willing to accept appropriate changes and adapt yourself, you are more likely to be able to lead other people through change with authenticity and enthusiasm.

Record your scores for:

Resourcefulness:

Optimism:

Adventurousness:

Passion/Drive:

Adaptability:

Confidence:

Tolerance for Ambiguity:

Which are your highest and lowest scoring factors?

What are the implications for you when you are part of a change process that you are not leading?

What are the implications for you in taking responsibility for initiating and leading change?

Skim through the Part 4 (pages 177 to 236) of the Boonstra e-book on cultural change:
Boonstra, J. (2012). Cultural change and leadership in organizations : A practical guide to successful organizational change. New York: Wiley.

Identify some specific skills, techniques or interventions that could specifically help you in leading others through change. Briefly describe the most useful interventions that you could personally take:

Activity - Reflection on a Change Process that You Have Experienced

Identify a significant change process in an organisation that you have personally experienced. If you have experience more that one major change, it would be useful to select one that generally worked well, producing a positive outcome and one that produced a less satisfactory outcome.

Try to identify the factors that contributed to the success of or problems with the change processes and record them here and in your online reflexive journal.

Look at the simple diagnostic tool below. Does this help you identify what worked well and what may have been neglected or missing in your examples?

What have your learned from this reflection on your actual change experiences and the application of the diagnostic model for complex change?

What recommendations would you make to yourself as a leader (or future leader) about organisational change?

Attachment:- Reflexive Learning Journal.rar