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LEADR - Leadership with Reflection (English Version)

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    Overview

    What awaits you

    Develop your leadership skills for lively work with groups through guided reflection and preparation.

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    Summary

    How come my event did or did not go well? Develop your leadership skills for working with groups in a lively way through reflection.

    A group can develop synergistic collaboration or remain stuck in passivity. There are many shades in between. The type of leadership plays a major role in the success of a group situation or the group dynamics. The concept of “Theme-Centred Interaction” (TCI) provides answers to the question of how to make lively and participant-oriented teaching, learning, working, and leading successful in different kinds of groups. TCI offers criteria by which various types of teaching events and group sessions can be analyzed and developed. In the LEADR (Leadership with Reflection) project – sponsored by HOOU@HAW – we have developed two TCI-based online guides which enable you to systematically reflect on your leadership actions retrospectively or prepare in advance. After all, we often still mull things over after an event and/or the next one is already in the wings. Therefore it is a good idea to pause and consciously reflect on the past or the upcoming situation. 

    Method 

    It can happen that there is no time to discuss things with a colleague, let alone for personal supervision. These self-reflection tools allow you to answer important questions concerning the factors of your work with a specific group in a structured way and to adjust your future actions accordingly. Use the tools and fill in the free text boxes – writing promotes the process of becoming aware! You can save your result as a text file. If you are interested, you can read more in-depth background texts on the various reflection areas of the tools and get suggestions for further reading.

    Learning objectives

    You will become familiar with the four-factor model of TCI as a tool for reflection, increase your ability and willingness to engage in structured self-reflection, and become more self-assured as a leader for the long haul (improvement of chairpersonship).

    You practise 

    • perceiving your leadership interventions / your leadership actions more consciously and reflecting on them 
    • expanding your perception of the participants by changing your point of view
    • training your perception of the effectiveness of connecting attitude, content, methods and structuring with each other 

    and as a result you will learn to manage future situations more consciously. 

    The more often you use this guide, the more often you will go to the next event with greater inner clarity and notice that conscious reflection has a positive effect. You will experience greater clarity in your own attitude and actions, more unambiguity in your content work, and more lively collaboration within the group. 

    Technical requirements

    The tool is based on H5P and can be used with all browsers on all standard terminals. We recommend using a device with a keyboard to facilitate writing your own texts.

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  • Introduction

    LEADr Preview by Jakob deBoer (CC BY-SA)

    What can you expect?

    A group can develop synergetic cooperation or remain passive. There are many shades in between. The type of leadership plays a major role in the success of a group situation or group dynamics. The concept of ‘Theme-Centred Interaction’ (TCI) offers answers to the question of how lively and participant-oriented teaching, learning, working and leading can succeed in groups of different kinds.

    TCI offers criteria that can be used to analyse and develop courses and group sessions of various kinds. However, there is not always time for a collegial exchange or even personal supervision. With the following self-reflection tools, users can answer important questions about the factors of their work with a particular group in a structured way and adapt their future actions accordingly. Free text fields are filled in within the tools, because writing supports the process of awareness-raising! The result can be saved as a text file. If you are interested, you can read further background texts on the areas of reflection in the tools and follow up further literature references.

    • Introductory video

      Reflection can help you to become better at leading and teaching. The four-factor model of theme-centred interaction can help with this. The following video briefly introduces it.

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  • Reflection with the LEADR Guidelines

    The following tool “Reflection” can assist you when in leading groups – e.g. work groups, school classes, university seminars, youth groups, and much more. It’s a good idea to talk to others who’ve made similar experiences with this, but that’s not always possible. This tool is meant to enable you to also reflect on your own, right after a leadership experience, on what you are dealing with as a leader. In a best-case scenario this will allow you to better understand difficult or particularly successful situations in retrospect and to improve your leadership competence for the next time.

  • Preparation with the LEADR-Guidelines

    The following tool “Preparation” can also assist you when in leading groups. The purpose of this tool is to enable you to clarify in advance what you are dealing with as the leader. In a best-case scenario, this allows you to work with greater flexibility, more situation-specific and in a more process-oriented way. This is your opportunity to continually improve your leadership skills. 



  • Material for the workshops

    In this section you will find some helpful additional materials.
    In the podcast episode, the people involved in the project introduce themselves and give you background information on the development of the tools.
    In the video you will learn who the inventor of theme-centred interaction - Ruth Cohn - is and under what circumstances she developed her ideas. You will also get an insight into a workshop documentation that provides an insight into the development of the tools.

    • Podcast "Leitungskompetenz für lebendiges Arbeiten mit Gruppen" (German). 

      In this episode, Margitta Holler, head of the LEADR project group at HAW Hamburg, and Marc Casper, Humboldt University of Berlin, talk to Nicola Wessinghage about the holistic concept of Theme-Centered Interaction (TCI) and the benefits of the LEADr tool.

    • A path to humanity

      Video introduction to Theme-Centered Interaction according to Ruth Cohn

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    • Photo protocol for the first workshop (German)

  • Closing

    Congratulations!


    You have successfully worked through the learning offer and hopefully were able to learn a lot!