Lindsey Wilson MLSD

Create a reflection blog based on critically thinking about how the Cynefin Framework can benefit your decision-making. Consider the chart on page 7 of the HBR article A Leader's Framework for Decision Making and discuss decision-making in multiple contexts; include two specific examples of decisions in multiple contexts that you have made. Detail the considerations from the various contexts that influenced your decision.  Critically assess the Cynefin Framework and describe 5 ways it can provide an improved context for decision making.            The Cynefin Framework argues that certain contexts call for a different approach to decision making. The Cynefin Framework shows how the one-size-fits-all approach to decision making doesn’t work, and instead provides the decision maker a set of guidelines or rules to follow based off of the context or domain to help make better decisions (Snowden, Boone, 2007). The different domains and their rules are: Simple: sense, cat

Reflect on the role of collaboration and getting to resolution in the process of decision-making. Rarely, if ever, do our decisions affect only ourselves. Consider the importance of getting other stakeholders involved; how can they help you make a better decision for all?                 A stakeholder is an individual or group that a project or decision will effect (Kangas, 2011).   By involving stakeholders in the decision making process I can get a clearer and more detailed picture of my constraints, resources and opportunities available to me. Without involving stakeholders I can only draw a black and white picture. This picture may be worthy of hanging on the wall, but if I had involved the stakeholders I would have a bright colorful picture with more detail that is worthy of an art gallery instead. Stakeholders also help save time and money as well. I remember a friend of mine who had a house built for her. The builder started to make decisions about the layout and design of

As you have read, much of Levine’s work depends upon having a keenly developed ability to listen. Often, we are so busy developing our own stories, we fail to listen actively to that which we are being told, intent only on verbalizing our own personal stories. Think about the last time you “really listened” to someone else and gave them time to “get their story out”. How different was that experience from your normal communications? What did you learn? Record your experiences in this RB. If you are unable to recall such a situation, find a time/place this week to practice active listening and report on that. I was teaching the first grade, and after the first month of school one of my student’s Kayla was frankly driving me crazy. She was extremely intelligent, (almost too smart for her own good) but would fight with other students and she would get angry if she wasn’t picked first when she raised her hand. If she didn’t get what she wanted she would be extremely disruptive during

In the Hoch text, based on Irwin and Baron's discussions on protected Values (pgs.251 ff.), reflect on three of your major protected values, support those values with at least three major beliefs and show the pros and cons of each belief in terms of trade-offs you are willing to make to support or not support that belief. How do these Protected Values potentially affect your own decision making? Do you feel as strongly about them as you did when you began this exercise? Freedom of Speech: Belief/Pro: A protected value for me is freedom of speech. I believe that freedom of speech is a basic human right. People should be able to say what they think and feel without fear of criminal charges, especially with regards to being critical of the government. Con: The first major drawback to freedom of speech is how we have seen misleading, incorrect, emotionally charged information being spread on the internet and social media outlets. This is so prevalent that as a society w