Help Chat Online.com » involvement http://helpchatonline.com Help Chat Online is where you go when you need to talk and privacy is a concern. Help is here in the form of professional guidance with personal life, financial and career problems. Join our friendly supportive groups to ease your anxiety, anguish and confusion. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:13:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Leadership – Part Six http://helpchatonline.com/archives/90 http://helpchatonline.com/archives/90#comments Sun, 31 Jul 2011 21:54:41 +0000 admin http://helpchatonline.com/?p=90 The Fluid Nature of the Leadership Role

A leader must acknowledge that members of a group become part of the collective leadership, playing in and out of a leading role as individuals with suggestions, complaints, and directing pivotal change within the group dialogue. This may change the role of the named leader into a follower or participant. Leaders are often determined by their family, financial power or acumen, with attendance at select schools that teach the mechanics of leadership. These people become the stewards of process often at the expense of reflection, intervention and paradigm change. Opposing forces are the individuals affected by the laws and cultural manipulations that become the change agents through and because of their lack of initiation into a proscribed atmosphere of “running the shop”.

Historically, students and initiates are the force for shaking status quo management’s strong beliefs. While there exists an incipient level of arrogance in that student group also, the dialogue is usually well informed and fresh. Their arguments and proposals can force reflection into a management.

It is because of the mutating role of a leader within a process group that one must rethink the traditional positivistic methods of leadership. One must start to think of leadership as an umbrella concept containing elements of any good societal or cultural process and system.

Shawn Nichols, MA, CC
doctoral student

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]]> http://helpchatonline.com/archives/90/feed 0 How do we find comfort when the world is a cold place? http://helpchatonline.com/archives/15 http://helpchatonline.com/archives/15#comments Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:34:24 +0000 Mother http://helpchatonline.com/archives/15 You feel ALONE. Many people feel alone. Can this a sign of the times? People may reach out in inappropriate ways or allow themselves to be USED by others who exploit this loneliness. How do we keep ourselves safe?Because each individual is unique, we all tend to feel lonely under different conditions. For example, some of us will feel lonely when we are excluded from group activities, others, when we are deprived of building close one-to-one relationships.

Loneliness means to feel:

  • Excluded from a group.
  • Unloved by those around you.
  • Alienated from your surroundings.
  • There is no one with whom to share your personal concerns and experiences.
  • That you are alone and have no other choice. You find it difficult to make friends and go beyond mere acquaintance.

Courtesy of Student Affairs-University of Buffalo. man on beach FEAR OF BEING ALONE AS FEAR OF NOT BEING ABLE TO CREATE YOUR OWN HAPPINESS ALONE The thought of being all alone in the world is not in itself something to panic about. While some people panic at the thought–others delight at the thought. If you believe that you can take care of your own needs well and be happy even if you are alone, then being alone is nothing to fear. If you believe that you need others to take care of you and “make” you happy, then you are too dependent on others and their absence is something to “panic” about.Courtesy of csulb.edu/~tstevens. [youtube]http://i.ytimg.com/vi/k3tkVoRBSms/default.jpg[/youtube] [youtube]http://i.ytimg.com/vi/bL1EiAyYRVw/default.jpg[/youtube]

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