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Leanne Discussion

Hi everyone, my name is Leanne Southwick and I have been working in admission for SNHU COCE for about 3 years. Previously I have experience in retail in my small hometown. My role is to assist students in the application and enrollment process and validate their goals and dreams while mentoring and being an advocate to my teammates. Especially in the online learning environment and working from home, communication is that much more crucial. This course is going to help me solidify my leadership style, tap into my unknown potential, and really help me be an active leader from my seat. I often say I do not consider myself a leader, but by taking away the knowledge and material from this course, I will be able to have the confidence and motivation to bring my skills to the table. It will be nice to have a course that is specifically dedicated to the role of communication in all aspects. I am set to graduate next spring and many of my MBA classes have touched upon the importance of communication, but it will be nice to invest in a course that really gives me the chance to learn more.

Although I am not too educated on football, I have heard Vince’s name and leadership tactics more than once. His legacy and mindset has been used my management on my team when it came to improving performance or getting out a rut during the workday. Reading the playbook provided a great example of the simplicity of a team and focused around risk management and problem solving with different variables. Essentially, the purpose and end goal of what we are trying to achieve will stay the same, but a big factor of the playbook was how we will react and how we can be successful in different situations. By using this to apply in the business world, the tools and skills are broad enough to apply to a variety of industries and leaders, but also being specific enough to develop a strategy, adapting to certain outcomes, and focusing on execution, scaling, integrating and being robust. By having a plan of strategy, operation, and capital, relationships and skills can be built to have everyone be on the same page and have a common goal.

The power to inspire and to have others follow is a hard skill to have. I feel like this quote can be used in a variety of leadership positions and industries. Having the spirit to be motivated enough to believe in yourself and believe in others is extremely important when you are leading a team. The text talks about instilling trust and building a community where you are able to perform and have permission to be yourself. Establishing credibility as a leader means being vulnerable, having a common goal, instilling trust, and giving everyone permission to be human. Having the hard skills such at competence, management, knowledge and execution can then be blended with the soft skills of intuition, emotional intelligence, and understanding. Having character can tie very closely with having spirit, high trust relationships, ease of communication, and work productivity.

References:

Cardon, P. W. (2021). Chapter 1 : Establishing Credibility. In Business communication: Developing leaders for a networked world. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.

Hoenig, C. (2002). The leader's playbook ; take a page-no, several pages-from this guide to transforming your team. Cio, 16(4), 1-42. Retrieved from https://ezproxy.snhu.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fdocview%2F205972576%3Faccountid%3D3783

Haley Discussion:

Hello class,

My name is Haley; I am pursuing a degree in Higher Education Administration while working at SNHU’s physical campus. I am not sure the exact niche within the industry I’ll pursue, but I have professional experience working within college admissions, registrar, residence life, student activities, and most recently within learner equities and affinities. I am looking forward to delving into the world of effective organizational communication. In previous classes, I’ve had final projects that touched on effective communication strategies, but I am looking forward to dedicating all of my attention to the subject in this course. Effective communication is essential at all levels; whether it be in one-to-one conversations with colleagues or conveying major organizational change, if a leader is unable to impart their message, they will face barriers to success. From misunderstandings to failed projects, lack of effective communication can be disastrous. In my own pursuits, I believe this course will teach me more about barriers to communication, as well as the interplay of audience and communication strategies.

I will admit, football is a sport I know very little about-- so Lombardi is a new figure to me. In reading about his accomplishments and seeing him within the assigned video, it is clear he is an inspiring leader to many. While the leader’s playbook is written from the lens of professional sports, the framework Lombardi utilizes has many transferable applications (Hoenig, 2002). The leader’s playbook dismantles transformational leadership into smaller action-oriented steps like, defining problems, setting goals, gathering data, assessing key performance indicators, motivating teams, defining success, and setting limits (Hoenig, 2002). What I appreciate about Lombardi’s playbook is that it can be applicable to leaders of all levels and projects of various sizes.

In examining Lombardi’s quote, "Leadership is based on a spiritual quality—the power to inspire, the power to inspire others to follow”, I have both praise and feedback. The ability to inspire a shared vision is crucial to the success of any leader (Kouzes & Posner, 2018). As shared by Kouzes and Posner, “(Leaders) envision the future and create an ideal and unique image of what the organization can become. Through their magnetism and persuasion, leaders enlist others in their dreams. They breathe life into their visions and get people to see exciting possibilities for the future.” (2018, p. 12). Equating leadership to a “spiritual” nature, however, is something I disagree with. While leadership is a skill that can never be completely perfected, I do believe it is a muscle that everyone can learn to practice. In Lombardi elevating leaders to such a high status, I think it detracts from the sentiment that leadership can be practiced at all levels of an organization. For a salesperson, leadership may be sharing their new-found tactics with colleagues; for a custodian, leadership could be implementing time-saving tactics throughout the department; for a CEO it may be effectively integrating company-wide changes. While I find a lot of truth in Lombardi’s sentiments, I think this particular quote ignores that organizations are made of many leaders, and that organizations should create environments where employees possess the ability to be leaders in their own realms. Top-down leadership is rarely successful (Cable, 2018). Promoting leadership at all levels encourages a culture whereby continuous growth and innovation are sought (Cable, 2018).

References:

Cable, D. (2018, April 23). How Humble Leadership Really Works. Harvard Business Review. https://hbr.org/2018/04/how-humble-leadership-really-works

Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z. (2018). The student leadership challenge : five practices for becoming an exemplary leader. The Leadership Challenge, A Wiley Brand. Copyright.