Practical traction after a hard hit—field notes and tools for rebuilding without performative positivity
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
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.
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”
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
Today’s organizational behaviour material pushed me into a larger question: when we talk about organizations, are we really talking about systems, or are we still pretending organizations are only built out of policies, managers, customers, and profit? The material on leadership systems, communication, accountability, delivery, performance, and measurement makes one thing clear: an organization is … Continue reading Organizational Behaviour: Systems, Stakeholders, and the Meaning of Work
Hey there, Standing on the Ledge. How are you today? I am feeling kind of blah. Not destroyed. Not in crisis. Not even angry in any clean or useful way. Just blah. Life has taken on that flat, grey, eh quality lately, and I have been trying to figure out why. Part of it may … Continue reading I Lost the Vent in the Work
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