Post Week 3 Reflection by 11:59 pm Phoenix Time Monday 11/28/11
Post
your reflection for week three by creating a 150-200 word reflective
statement describing how the week’s learning has affected your thought
processes, development, and professional disposition. This statement
should be a forum for you to reflect on your personal learning process,
challenges, moments of discovery, life experiences, readings, and
interactions. Ideally, you will use these statements throughout the
course and the program to document your own development as a scholar,
practitioner, and leader, and to reflect critically on the changes that
occur during this process.
My Response
In this new week, I have thought about how a leader might
show that he/she cares about others and the differences between transactional
and transformational leadership. I
believe that from my own experience and the discussions I have seen from
others, a caring leader demonstrates care by being truthful, being ethical,
listening to others concerns, helping with and directing others towards their goals,
contributing to developing strategies, being gracious and showing humility to
others.
Further, I have learned about some of the differences
between transactional and transformational leadership. A transactional leadership is aimed at
requirement-oriented objectives with an end result of a potential reward while
transformational leadership is aimed at higher learning and critical thinking
to develop progressive and unique ideas to the objectives. There also seems to be a direct connection
between the caring leader and transformational leadership in that the concerns
for the project and the quality of it are important towards meeting the overall
aim of the task.
