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reflections on higher education, executive coaching, and leadership
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Category: Wellbeing
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What is joy? Joy is a positive affective or emotional state. It is something we can broaden and build (Fredrickson, 2001). The more we notice, practice, and express gratitude for the joy in our lives, the more we feel and experience it. Johnson (2020) suggests that: When we talk about bringing joy into workspaces, it…
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Trusting your inner wisdom in team coaching to navigate conflict and strengthen psychological safety
What is team coaching? Team coaching involves partnering with and walking alongside teams to help them learn together, relate together, reflect together, achieve together, and grow together. Team coaching supports teams in leveraging their collective talents and gifts to achieve goals, strengthen performance, enhance team health, and transform themselves, their team and their organization(s). Traylor et al. (2020)…
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Leadership is tough work. It can feel overwhelming and all-consuming. At times, our work as leaders can take a toll on our happiness and well-being. Reflecting on 2024, I noticed one consistency – more moments of joy in my life. I’ve lived with anxiety and depression since my early 20s. I’ve worked through my mental…
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When I started my work in educational development and teaching and learning in the early 2000s, we talked a lot about the need to shift our focus from teaching to student learning in higher education. Fundamentally, this meant embracing a mindset more focused on what and how students learned rather than the content we taught, or how we would…
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I’ve identified one leadership skill to practice this year. It’s a tough one (maybe the toughest of all!), so I’ve given myself a year to practice and reflect on it, and maybe move one step forward to becoming a more conscious leader and human being. You know that moment between when something happens that triggers…
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What is coaching? The International Coaching Federation defines coaching as: partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. The process of coaching often unlocks previously untapped sources of imagination, productivity and leadership. ICF, nd In practice, coaching involves partnering with people through an emerging…
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Recently, we’ve heard that students and course instructors are reporting feeling overwhelmed. Assessment is often at the centre of these conversations. Jones et al. (2021) acknowledge that assessment practices impact both educator’s and student’s perceptions of their wellbeing. They highlight some common tensions related to challenge, format, weighting, flexibility, and group work. I anticipate more…
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By: Natasha Kenny (Senior Director, Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning) and Patti Dyjur (Educational Development Consultant, Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning) It’s been a tough couple of years for students and educators (Brazeau et al., 2020; Morgan and Simmons, 2021). Over the past few weeks, we’ve increasingly heard from our academic community that students…
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