Practical traction after a hard hit—field notes and tools for rebuilding without performative positivity
A Standing on the Ledge reflection translating MGT2382 team and organizational behaviour material into a practical SOTL lens: before blaming people under pressure, check the structure, norms, trust, authority, and conditions around them.
Posted at a later date than the dates listed in this reflection. Phase lens: Phase 3 — rebuild systems, with Phase 0 warning-light implications and Phase 1 implications whenever people are making decisions under pressure. Source note: This rewritten entry expands the May 18–19 team-dynamics reflection into a broader organizational behaviour reflection. It keeps the … Continue reading Week 1 MGT2382 learning journal
posted at later date than dates listed in reflection Groups, Teams, Organic Teams, Team Dynamics, Trust, Norms, and Decision-Making Under Pressure Category suggestion: MGT2382 Learning Journal / Field Lab: Learning Journals Phase lens: Phase 3 - rebuild systems, with Phase 0 warning-light implications and Phase 1 implications whenever people are making decisions under pressure. Source … Continue reading MGT2382 Learning Journal – May 18-19, 2026
A crisis wants a dramatic answer. The field rule is simpler: do not make life-sized decisions while the alarm is still ringing.
When life takes a hard hit, the first job is not to solve the entire future. The first job is to stabilize the next 72 hours without making the wound worse.
One of the risks of doing public learning journals is that the course material can start to get heavy. Definitions. Models. Terms. Categories. Textbook language. All of that can be useful. But Standing on the Ledge was not built to become a textbook. It was built from the rubble. So the question is not only, … Continue reading The Team Is Not the Word “Team”
This post is adapted from my final learning journal for Communication & Conflict Management. I am sharing it here because the course did not stay inside the classroom for me. It connected directly to Standing on the Ledge: collapse recovery, crisis management, boundaries, communication under pressure, and the systems that shape conflict before anyone says … Continue reading What Communication & Conflict Management Taught Me About Collapse, Systems, and Boundaries
Some people may wonder why I am posting my learning journal publicly for my organizational behaviour course. Fair question. Honestly, it is something I probably should have done with my Communication and Conflict Management course as well. I did keep a learning journal for that course, but I never really posted it publicly. Right now, … Continue reading Why I’m Publishing My Learning Journal in Public
MGT2382 Organizational Behaviour Learning Journal Today’s organizational behaviour reading focused on teams: what they are, why they exist, and how different types of teams function inside an organization. At first glance, a team sounds simple. Put people together, give them a goal, and call them a team. But organizational behaviour is more precise than that. … Continue reading What are Teams?
Reader’s Moment: Maybe you have a dream you keep circling. Not because it is foolish. Not because it is impossible. Not because you are lazy, broken, or incapable. Maybe you keep circling it because the dream still feels safer than the first real step. You can imagine the book. You can imagine the business. You … Continue reading The Dream Does Not Become Real Until You Give It Conditions
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