Night Numbers: Money Triage Without Shame

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Money pressure gets louder in the dark. Night Numbers turns financial panic back into a page you can work with.

When Personality Meets Pressure: A Bridge Between Conflict and Organizational Behavior

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A learning-journal bridge between conflict styles, the Five-Factor Model, and the way personality shows up under pressure inside organizations.

MGT2382 Organizational Behaviour: Week 2 Learning Journal

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Effective Communication Is More Than Sending a Message This week’s Organizational Behaviour reading focused on communication, and the more I worked through it, the more I realized that communication is not simply “person A sends a message and person B receives it.” That is the simple version. The real version is messier. Effective communication happens … Continue reading MGT2382 Organizational Behaviour: Week 2 Learning Journal →

Before Blaming the Person, Check the Conditions

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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.

Week 1 MGT2382 learning journal

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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 →

MGT2382 Learning Journal – May 18-19, 2026

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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 →

No Big Decisions While the Alarm Is Still Ringing

A crisis wants a dramatic answer. The field rule is simpler: do not make life-sized decisions while the alarm is still ringing.

The First 72 Hours: Stop the Bleed Before You Solve Your Life

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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.

The Team Is Not the Word “Team”

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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” →

What Communication & Conflict Management Taught Me About Collapse, Systems, and Boundaries

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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 →