[Ous-lp-rp13] EDAD 6010, Response to Question # 2

[Sylvia, Molly]

Dustin,

I appreciated reading your response because as your examined the traits,
you considered your strengths and weaknesses within each. I alluded to this
in my response, that we possess these traits to varying degrees and your
writing helps me confirm that this is true. I found it interesting that you
mentioned your wife when discussing stress-tolerance. I thought of the same
thing, how I get short with my family and they can easily tell I am
stressed by my tone and one word responses. I respond to stress differently
with my coworkers and believe I may respond differently as an
administrator, too. At work, I hide my stress quite effectively, as these
people are not closest to me and the introvert in me wants to remain
elusive. At work, I try to watch my tone and attempt to respond to others
cautiously, with more patience than I show at home. I wonder if you
experience the same, that your stress exemplifies itself differently at
work than at home.

Your response also reminded me just how beneficial the internship portion
of this program will be in helping us learn the skills of administration.
I'm thankful to work for a principal who is strong in both managerial and
leadership skills. So, I look forward to gleaning from his knowledge and
expertise when it comes to technical and cognitive skills, especially. It
is certainly and ever changing world that will require a lot of on-the-job
training and continued mentorship even after we leave this program. The
question "why" is so pertinent to our work. It falls deeply into the
symbolic perceptual lense, as we look for meaning throughout our managerial
and leadership tasks. The "why" can continue to give us drive and mission
in our work as we struggle with difficult situations, troublesome people,
and the complexity of politics. Additionally, I look forward to utilizing
the relationships we're building in this program to help us with these
skills in the future.

~Molly

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Dustin Tyler <dustin.tyler at ccsd.us> wrote:

> The personality traits are relatively stable dispositions to behave in a
> particular way.  I focused on the most important five traits and zeroed
> in on my specific deficits associated with effective leadership when
> reflecting upon myself.  The five personality traits are self-confidence,
> stress tolerance, emotional maturity, integrity, and extroversion.
>
Self- confidence is defined as a feeling of trust in one's abilities,
> qualities, and judgment.  I have a great amount of self-confidence when I
> am very informed and knowledgeable about a topic.  The area of
> self-confidence that I would like to improve upon is to persist in the face
> of problems and defeats.  My confidence goes up and down during a
> specific problem including one with a defeat. I would like to persevere and
> to transition to acceptance and what I can do better in defeat.
>
> Stress tolerance is the next personality trait which I deal in a variety
> of different ways including the need to have my own “introverted time to
> tolerate the troubles of a day.  At times I get very stresses and I tend
> to show.  My wife tells me I show stress by being very short with one
> word answers and short phrases.  She typically leaves me alone for a bit
> of time understanding what I need to get over the stress.
>
> The last personality trait I am going to focus on is extroversion.  I
> believe in the right situations I can take my introverted self and become
> more extroverted.  It takes certain situations and a level of being
> comfortable to make this happen.  I believe I have already warmed up to
> the cohort and the “feeling out” process has been fairly easy with this
> group.
>
> A different set of traits and skills associated with effective leadership
> is motivational traits which include task and interpersonal needs,
> achievement orientation, power needs, expectations, self-efficacy.  Motivation
> is defined as a set of energetic forces that originate both with as well as
> beyond an individual to initiate work-related behavior and to determine its
> form, direction, intensity, and duration.
>
> The first and only motivational trait that I will focus on is task and
> interpersonal needs as I believe is one of the biggest building blocks for
> relationships.  These people are driven by the task as well as their
> concern for people.  I don’t think that anyone can ever top out but will
> always strive to be better with interpersonal needs.  I have noticed that
> some people view an interpersonal relationship differently than others.  All
> people are different and I am hoping that in the next two years I will get
> better at adapting to people to please individuals the best way I can.
>
> The last subsets of effective leaderships are the skills which include
> technical, interpersonal, and conceptual.  Technical skills are the focal
> point for me.  Technical skills are the bringing of specialized knowledge
> to bear an administrative task.  The skills are going to take a lot of
> experience, a good mentor, and the drive to focus on as many behind the
> scenes items.  While working with my principal I am sure to include
> myself in a bit of everything.  I will need to continue to ask the
> question why, for more understanding of why administrators do what they do.
>
>
> Conceptual or cognitive skills are ever changing but to think logically
> and to work with concepts seems to come fairly easy for me.  My vast
> amount of teaching in three different school districts in a multitude of
> different positions has allowed me to have the ground work for thinking
> logically.
>
> These are the items that I personally feel comfortable with and some
> traits that I perceive will need work over the next two years.
>
>
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*Molly Sylvia*
*7th/8th Grade Social Studies Teacher*
*Jr. High Quiz Bowl Advisor*
*Youth in Government Advisor*
Green High School
4057 Gallia Pike
Franklin Furnace, Ohio 45629
office 740.354.9290 ext. 3212
fax 740.354.9904
*BELIEVE*
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