Comments for Leadership Asia http://leadershipasia.wordpress.com Thoughts about leadership challenges across Asia Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:09:53 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Coaching, Questioning, and Learning by Shaun Killian http://leadershipasia.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/coaching-questioning-and-learning/#comment-14 Shaun Killian Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:09:53 +0000 http://leadershipasia.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/coaching-questioning-and-learning/#comment-14 Hello Mark Thanks for your post. It has got me thinking on a tangent about specifity-generalisability of case studies in leadership development. I note a growing trend in the leadership development literature regarding the use of 'popular culture' case studies. The issues in popular culture are more genric than industry or organisation specific case studies, yet the by very nature case studies are more specific than articulating motherhood statements or theories. Back to the topic - Perhaps asking participants to imagine themselves one week from now and tell a chronological story of what they have done differently. The story genre brings out details that explanatory or descriptive genre do not. On a final note I have created a non-commercial website for those interested in leadership development - a field I am passionate about and you may wish to have a look http://www.learning-to-lead.org Hello Mark

Thanks for your post. It has got me thinking on a tangent about specifity-generalisability of case studies in leadership development.

I note a growing trend in the leadership development literature regarding the use of ‘popular culture’ case studies. The issues in popular culture are more genric than industry or organisation specific case studies, yet the by very nature case studies are more specific than articulating motherhood statements or theories.

Back to the topic – Perhaps asking participants to imagine themselves one week from now and tell a chronological story of what they have done differently. The story genre brings out details that explanatory or descriptive genre do not.

On a final note I have created a non-commercial website for those interested in leadership development – a field I am passionate about and you may wish to have a look http://www.learning-to-lead.org

]]> Comment on Podcast for Training–Thought Leadership at PR Junction by Jon Hoel http://leadershipasia.wordpress.com/2007/10/06/podcast-for-training-thought-leadership-at-pr-junction/#comment-13 Jon Hoel Sat, 06 Oct 2007 09:57:33 +0000 http://leadershipasia.wordpress.com/2007/10/06/podcast-for-training-thought-leadership-at-pr-junction/#comment-13 Michael, Admittedly, I am hopelessly biased, but great interview with Anders! Michael,
Admittedly, I am hopelessly biased, but great interview with Anders!

]]> Comment on Coaching, Questioning, and Learning by communicateasia http://leadershipasia.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/coaching-questioning-and-learning/#comment-12 communicateasia Fri, 05 Oct 2007 00:42:31 +0000 http://leadershipasia.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/coaching-questioning-and-learning/#comment-12 Thank you, Mark. I have been headed in this direction for a while, ever since discovering that case method learning is truly new to many people in Asia. Here, my executive participants often come out of an education system that cast learners into a passive role with exams at the mid-term and end. Now, ten or more years after exiting university, they are being asked to draw upon their life experience, identify parallels, and extract personally significant learning points without ever having any real experience with this type of learning. I must find a better set of questions to guide them, and a better way of delivering those questions, so that everyone can take away something useful for the day. The question now is how to do this? Thank you for sharing. Let's keep thinking about this. Thank you, Mark. I have been headed in this direction for a while, ever since discovering that case method learning is truly new to many people in Asia. Here, my executive participants often come out of an education system that cast learners into a passive role with exams at the mid-term and end. Now, ten or more years after exiting university, they are being asked to draw upon their life experience, identify parallels, and extract personally significant learning points without ever having any real experience with this type of learning.

I must find a better set of questions to guide them, and a better way of delivering those questions, so that everyone can take away something useful for the day.

The question now is how to do this?

Thank you for sharing. Let’s keep thinking about this.

]]> Comment on Coaching, Questioning, and Learning by markwilcox http://leadershipasia.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/coaching-questioning-and-learning/#comment-11 markwilcox Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:40:52 +0000 http://leadershipasia.wordpress.com/2007/10/04/coaching-questioning-and-learning/#comment-11 I think you have hit on a critical question for people involved in facilitating learning. Its a question of garbage in, garbage out and we sometime ( self included) use what we think is a smart enquiry to be disappointed with the result. I fully agree, to get a focused response, something that has elicited some reflection, we need to craft our questions better. You've made me think - thanks I think you have hit on a critical question for people involved in facilitating learning. Its a question of garbage in, garbage out and we sometime ( self included) use what we think is a smart enquiry to be disappointed with the result. I fully agree, to get a focused response, something that has elicited some reflection, we need to craft our questions better.

You’ve made me think – thanks

]]> Comment on Welcome to LeadershipAsia by Dawn Dekle http://leadershipasia.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/welcome-to-leadershipasia/#comment-3 Dawn Dekle Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:43:47 +0000 http://leadershipasia.wordpress.com/2007/04/13/welcome-to-leadershipasia/#comment-3 Michael, I loved reading your insights about Cairo and your experiences with your program. I was in particular struck by your comments about having conversations. I wanted to share something we've been discussing here, "fierce conversations". Kind of trendy, but also food for thought. Here is the website: http://www.fierceinc.com/ Looking forward to hearing more! Dawn Michael,

I loved reading your insights about Cairo and your experiences with your program. I was in particular struck by your comments about having conversations. I wanted to share something we’ve been discussing here, “fierce conversations”. Kind of trendy, but also food for thought. Here is the website:
http://www.fierceinc.com/

Looking forward to hearing more!
Dawn

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