Catherine

#OUB329 #oustudent #businessmanagement

[Catherine @catswayne]

Degree confirmed. Achieving a first in my final module and graduating with a 2:1 🥳 @OpenUniversity

[Catherine @catswayne]

@Rachel26102010 @OpenUniversity Congratulations 🎉

[Catherine @catswayne]

@OpenUniversity Supporting, flexible, belief

[Catherine @catswayne]

#b329leadershipchallenge @catswayne @Rachelstickland @Oliviamajor
The #housingcrisis is affecting lots of people leaving them homeless or struggling to pay their bills. Take a look @crisis_uk to see how you can help & support people to improve the current crisis.
We must act now!

[Catherine @catswayne]

#OUB329 #wk17reflection @clementOU1 storytelling is a important & powerful tool to frame & convert a message.
5 main ingredients of successful storytelling:
-making the audience care
-take the audience with you
-be intentional
-make the audience like you
-delight the audience

[Catherine @catswayne]

Having several groups involved helps to build the movement on the experience, knowledge, emotion & expertise of the different groups involved. Not everyone will agree in the direction so it’s important that decisions are made democratically as there is more of a vertical logic.

[Catherine @catswayne]

#OUB329 #wk16reflection @clementOU1 in activist leadership it is important to build coalitions of different people & groups which may link separate campaigns and orgs together to work on a movement campaign. This can improve the strength of the movement & gain rapid momentum.

[Catherine @catswayne]

It was interesting to learn about the other less extreme forms of resistance such as disagreement, cynical undermining of management initiatives & mockery.

[Catherine @catswayne]

#OUB329 #wk15reflection @clementOU1 there are many examples that show resistance to leadership & the different ways that resistance is exerted. I always thought as resistance as more extreme organised action like protest marches, strikes & sabotage.

[Catherine @catswayne]

#OUB329 #wk14reflection @clementOU1 when challenges arise it’s important to use three steps of identifying, prioritising & categorising challenges. This may help when facing several challenges at the same time that could be tame, wicked or critical challenges or interlinked.

[Catherine @catswayne]

To keep people engaged two practices can be followed. Firstly, framing and reframing the vision. Secondly staying attended to the vision of success

[Catherine @catswayne]

#OUB329 #wk12reflection @clementOU1 to help achieve positive-sum, win-win outcome or common good it’s important to have a vision of success. A detailed vision that develops overtime, influencing & enabling practical decision making in the collaborative process.

[Catherine @catswayne]

#OUB329 #wk11reflection @clementOU1 #conflict in orgs or society isn’t always negative or from people in a position of power. #constructivedissent challenge hierarchical structures & responsible followers can help positively impact change & innovation in orgs & society

[Catherine @catswayne]

they can see alternative ways of solving problems

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#OUB329 #wk10reflection @clementOU1 people without position of power can still influence #leaders & participate in #leadership in organisations and society. It’s important to build networks & relationships that allow #followers to share leadership, distribute responsibilities as

[Catherine @catswayne]

#OUB329 #wk9reflection @clementOU1 #collaboration #leadership two different types of leadership activity support collaboration & help achieve aims. Facilitative activities undertaken in the spirit of collaboration & manipulative activities perceived as collaborative thuggery

[Catherine @catswayne]

#OUB329 #wk8reflection @clementOU1 #situationalleadership It’s interesting to find out which leadership style I have & which need developing . My focus is to develop the styles I don’t use as much & refine the ability to switch from one style to another depending on the situation

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#OUB329 #wk7reflection @clementOU1 it’s interesting how leadership identity is perceived differently by yourself to how your fellow employees and followers perceive you. I am going to be working on aligning how others perceive my leadership identity to how I perceive myself

[Catherine @catswayne]

#OUB329 #wk5reflection @clementOU1
The inverted pyramid was a useful & helpful tool when writing my blog for the first TMA. It was great to be able to interview someone experiencing some of the concepts & theories from B329 then write about and analyse them in the blog

[Catherine @catswayne]

#OUB329 #wk4reflection @clementOU1 the lily pond metaphor was an interesting topic. How culture is formed, evolves & can be taken for granted. With the three levels of culture; cultural artefact, espoused beliefs and values & basic underlying assumptions which are interrelated