Hapiness: It is a mood, that could change in the people if they are affected by any kind of circunstances, althought they decide to be happy, it is something that a person decide and feel.
Globalization: It is a global process of changes in many aspects such as in a cultural way, in social and some. In ehich everybody are involve and effected by some of the traditions and costumes of other parts of the world.
Leadership: It is a characteristic of a person that helps to manage a group that are interested to reach common goals. It is important the dialogue and to help other people to sol ve a specific problem.
martes, 7 de octubre de 2008
Reading About Leadership
Source: http://www.clad.org.ve/portal/publicaciones-del-clad/revista-clad-reforma-democracia/articulos/035-junio-2006/governance-and-leadership-for-social-change
Governance and Leadership for Social Change
Sonia Ospina
This work presents preliminary results of a national and multi-year research project developed in the United States to explore how leadership for social change happens in grassroots, civil society organizations. The article describes key leadership practices that these organizations use to influence public policies in the name of communities that have been traditionally marginalized from society's participation and distribution processes. These results are used to reflect on the role that civil society organizations play in the general trend towards the emergence of new forms of governance in the context of the United States.
The preliminary results reported offer a perspective on leadership for social change that departs from traditional mental models of effective leadership and that seems more in line with new forms of governance. This perspective questions the idea that social transformation requires heroic leadership from a few individuals in authority positions. Instead, the characteristics of social change leadership discussed invite us to imagine the potential of leadership as something that belongs to the group and that emerges at any level of the organization or social system where common work is being pursued.
This model of leadership seems more appropriate to support and advance new governance practices, where the legitimacy and authority to resolve public problems are distributed horizontally as well as vertically among different social actors, with equal leadership capacity to improve citizens' quality of life. Interestingly, instead of always promoting cooperative relationships between civil society and government, this kind of leadership is characterized by the effective management of a paradoxical relationship that combines confrontation and dialogue within the same strategy.
Governance and Leadership for Social Change
Sonia Ospina
This work presents preliminary results of a national and multi-year research project developed in the United States to explore how leadership for social change happens in grassroots, civil society organizations. The article describes key leadership practices that these organizations use to influence public policies in the name of communities that have been traditionally marginalized from society's participation and distribution processes. These results are used to reflect on the role that civil society organizations play in the general trend towards the emergence of new forms of governance in the context of the United States.
The preliminary results reported offer a perspective on leadership for social change that departs from traditional mental models of effective leadership and that seems more in line with new forms of governance. This perspective questions the idea that social transformation requires heroic leadership from a few individuals in authority positions. Instead, the characteristics of social change leadership discussed invite us to imagine the potential of leadership as something that belongs to the group and that emerges at any level of the organization or social system where common work is being pursued.
This model of leadership seems more appropriate to support and advance new governance practices, where the legitimacy and authority to resolve public problems are distributed horizontally as well as vertically among different social actors, with equal leadership capacity to improve citizens' quality of life. Interestingly, instead of always promoting cooperative relationships between civil society and government, this kind of leadership is characterized by the effective management of a paradoxical relationship that combines confrontation and dialogue within the same strategy.
miércoles, 1 de octubre de 2008
Life skills at school
The school should implement some life skills in the schedule for the students to improve their abilities and weaknesses, and also to be prepared for the future.
A lot of people think students are completely fine and well-trained only teaching them academic subjects. Obviously, this is important because it creates some analitic and logic skills. But it is also important to trained them for the future and for themselves too.
For example, cookery is an that not all the students are interested in , but it is a way to be independent fron their parents , because if , because if the student know how to cook, it is easier to make their own food if nobody`s home , and not only as a child or teenager, thinking in the future , this activity that starts at school help yourself to manage many situations in your independent life and in marry life.
There are others as first aid , that helps you to make the correct things in case of emergency , or classes of drama , help students to be different personas and imporve their abilities and skills personalizing some roles. Also, learning foreign languages, they are very useful to travel and to communicate to the other people.
For the reasons I' ve mentioned above, life skills are important to improve student's abilities and weaknesses , and also to do what they like the most, and help them to have a better future in the real life, in which they have to do things by themselves and learn some others that are important and very useful to live.
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