ORGL 600 - Foundations of Leadership

My Course experience

As the first course in the program, ORGL 600 was about self discovery for me. Moving through the content, we were asking four questions of ourselves: What don’t I want, What do I want, What does this require of me, & how does this shape who I am becoming? Additionally, learning the five frames gave me a lens in order to see my own embeddedness as a leader and how to move into a more transcendent space.

Course Takeaways

  • Leadership Philosophy

    One of my favorite parts of this course was the fact that right from the beginning we are asked to write a philosophy of leadership. While it is a helpful exercise in that moment, it provides a beautiful window into the leadership growth I have experienced after the completion of the ORGL program.

  • Self-Reflection

    The four questions the modules of this course were built around were very formative for me as I started on this leadership journey.

    • What do I not want?

    • What do I want?

    • What will it require of me?

    • How will it shape who I am becoming?

    These four questions and the self-reflection birthed out of them helped me define certain leadership desires that I carried through the entire program.

  • The Five Frames

    The learning of the five frames and the concepts of embeddeness versus transcendence helped me understand the ways I had become embedded in my own leadership. This understanding helped me see the ways that I was viewing leadership challenges from a embedded posture in a certain frame versus a position of “Logos” where I was able to see all perspectives.

Artifact

Featured Reading

Written Narrative on The Five Frames

Assignment Prompt: In a written narrative (5-7 pages), describe an organizational problem from the perspectives of the five frames described in the book Heraclitean Fire: Rational, Human, Systems, Political, and Cultural. Next, use concepts from Freire’s book and the journal articles you and others read during Module One to describe how the five different perspectives can create a dysfunctional workplace. Finally, use concepts from Palmer’s book to describe leadership actions that would deal effectively with this dysfunction.

Click here to view the Artifact

 

Pedagogy of the Oppresed

By Paulo Freire