EDL 522 Human Resources

Welcome to EDL 522. As part of the requirements for this course you will be required to post comments to this blog after every class session. These comments should be a reflection of the readings, lectures, guest speakers, activities, or discussions that occurred during the day.

I hope you enjoy the class and I will do my best to share with you the theoretical and practical lessons that you will need to be a successful school administrator.

Sunday, February 24, 2008

7 Dimensions of a Positive Workplace

I found the activity we did on evaluating the 7 dimensions of the workplace insightful. As we went through this in our groups, we had the opportunity to think about each of the areas and reflect on why we felt the way we did when ranking each area. When Dr. Closen had us show hands as we reviewed it together, it appears most of us were fairly happy with our schools. Some of us commented that the administration is what accounts for the feelings that we have in regards to our buildings. As we begin to enter the administrative world within the next few years, we need to remember these activities and the comments we shared together so we will hopefully create the positive climates many of us are experiencing now.

3 comments:

Kevin Ferry said...

Lisa,
I agree with you 100%. I did this activity for this year and last year and the numbers were signifigantly different. It made me think of how much better I love to work in Avon now.
PS Thanks for the ride home

Jim Wilson said...

I agree on how much a single change in a district can go from a fairly negative workplace to a positive one. We made a change three years ago, and the spectrum was turned upside down towards the positive.

TVallas said...

It made me realize that I work in a pretty good place. I think it is easy to focus on the negatives but the activity made me appreciate my job.