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Mind Lab - Week 1 - Leadership - Followership

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LEADERSHIP - Followership “The role of follower can be seen as holding within it potential for both assessing and taking on leadership functions. In addition to directing activity, these include decision making, goal setting, communicating, adjudicating conflict, and otherwise maintaining the enterprise.” Hollander, E.P. (1992). The Essential Interdependence of Leadership and Followership. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 1(2),71-75. Reflection What do you consider a good leader to be like? How did you lead and follow during the collaborative task? A good leader needs to have good interpersonal communication skills. They need to have a good understanding of the subject they are leading. The need to be approachable and willing to discuss. They also need to be willing to muck in and do with everyone else. clear vision and clear focus honesty, integrity and humility a believer in teamwork and collaboration creative and willing to try out new ideas and st

Mind Lab - Week 1 - Digital - What is Knowledge?

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DIGITAL - What is Knowledge? Reflection Wow - What is knowledge - What a big question, and so many different angles with which to view such a question. Making the video was enormous fun. Although the filming and editing we completing by others in the team I learnt about time lapse videoing, how to speed up and slow down the video. Also the importance of framing your shot and making sure that you are working from a particular angle each time (to keep the shot smooth.) Kyle - if you ever see the video please don’t sigh too deeply - just remember that I am learning! So I have set up a new blog to save all my Mind Lab reflections. The main notes and copies of notes given to us on the course are in my Google Drive but the reflections will all be appearing on my blog. Which is public. Although I’m not currently advertising that fact to anyone!! I’m also inviting other members of our little HNPS Mind Lab team to join my blog in the hope that we will be able to upload vi