Week 4 Notes

Week 4 Workshop

About the assignment

- 2 journals per week when doing your assignment 1

- Week 8 is for the peer review. By that time you need have finished 1500-2000 words (at least 10 journals). Need bring your hard copy in week 8.

- You don't have to use all the leadership models to address your leader. Trying two of them is enough.

- Only need paragraphs, no heading is needed. You can mark week 1, week 2 and the like.

Main content

Shared vision is about what your team believes.

A video shows that you will fail to go straight if you are blind - importance of the vision.

What vision does:

- links present to the future

- energizes people and garner commitment

- gives meaning to work

- establishes a standard of excellence

Common themes of vision:

- has broad appeal

- deals with change

- encourages faith and hope

- reflects high ideals

- so on

A metaphor of the hair tie:

vision-tension-curren reality

Why Martin Luther King's speech was effective?