Leading Organizational Change

During the eight weeks I have learn so many things that will help me in my future as an educator. I feel that I am starting to put the learning process and its many concepts and ideas together and I have begun to see how everything is starting to fit together. This has given me a very satisfying feeling.

 

In our course EDLD 5304 we have been learning the importance of having a clear “WHY” inserted into our thinking about our projects. To produce passion and a sense of urgency in our students, we need to reflect upon, to understand, and to really know the purpose, causes or beliefs that drive us to be successful as educators. At the same time, we need to target the hearts of our students before we address the minds. We had the opportunity to refer to and reflect upon Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning. This taxonomy looks at learning from three domains: cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. This taxonomy and its concepts should be incorporated when we develop learning environments. 

 

For our project, involving the implementation of an e- Portfolio, we defined the milestones to reach, identified vital behaviors according to the Influencer book’s four key strategies, and, finally, we used the six sources of influence to help team members and students change their behaviors. 

 

Additionally, we developed an execution strategy following the 4DX model. We focused on our Wildly Important Goal, defined lag and lead measures, developed a scoreboard to track our successes and created a cadence of accountability, involving creating regular and frequent meetings to focus on our goal and its progress. 

 

Finally, we learned different tools to become self differentiated leaders, capable of addressing the resistance and anxiety that occur when launching new innovations. As educators, it is also crucial to become self-directed individuals who can define boundaries and be in touch with ideas and emotions of others without being dominated by them. Using empathy in conversations and focusing on objectives, and not emotions, are keys to having successful interactions.