A Final Reflection on Leadership

Looking back on my first reflection on leadership, I do not think that too many of my thoughts had changed except for one: my role in project or change management. In my original reflection, I discussed some essential characteristics of a leader, such as caring, competence, and communication. Those are things I would look for in a leader. Being communicative is an essential characteristic for me, especially with recent shifts happening at my work. There are a few new employees and others taking on newer roles, and sometimes there is miscommunication. As Shenigner (2022) pointed out, communication is one of the essential pillars of digital leadership. The last few weeks have shown me the importance of keeping communication open between leaders and employees and among colleagues, which I am working on, and it brings me to reflect on my role in digital leadership. 

In another blog post, I discussed my thoughts on my work role. Initially, I reflected on my role as part of operations rather than on project management (Watt et al., 2014). Throughout the different assignments in this class, I have some characteristics that align with change management and digital leadership. For instance, I am adaptable and flexible when things change that are out of our control, which are traits of an adaptive leader (Khan, 2017). When completing our last assignment for this class, we had to think of a plan to incorporate a technology change. Upon researching and writing the plan for this assignment, I realized I have many ideas for incorporating technology into my organization for educators and children. For instance, when researching e-portfolios in early childhood settings, there were ideas on making portfolios more child-centred (Bedel et al., 2024), which I would like to incorporate. Thus, upon reflection, I have ideas that can benefit my work, and perhaps I have more leadership traits than I initially thought. I aim to continue discussing these ideas and incorporate them into my work one day. 

References 

Bedel, E. F., İnce, S., & Başalev Acar, S. (2024). Voices from the field: Integrating e-portfolios in early childhood education. Education and Information Technologies. 

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-024-12563-9

Khan, N. (2017). Adaptive or transactional leadership in current Higher Education: A brief comparison. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 18(3). https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v18i3.3294

Sheninger, E. (2022, October 29). 7 pillars of Digital leadership. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. https://www.hmhco.com/blog/pillars-of-digital-leadership-in-education

Watt, A. (2014). Project management. BCcampus Open Education Pressbooks. https://opentextbc.ca/projectmanagement/front-matter/introduction-2/