We did it!
Whew. The final week of LeaderMOOC is up now. We made the deadline again. We are ending the MOOC with a topic that is the same as the tag line for the entire MOOC: Making It Real! All too often people leave courses with insights and willingness, but then reality happens. In this final week we want to help people get a lasting result on just a few chosen behavior changes (small ones even) for long after LeaderMOOC is over, so we are covering goal setting and how to shape habits.- For goal setting we interviewed a CCL ex-colleague Carrol Connely who has researched neuroscience and in particular advises to use mental contrasting and IF...THEN techniques to get clear about goals and their implementation.
- For the habit shaping topic we included a TEDx talk of BJ Fogg, a Stanford professor specialising in behaviour change and father of the Tiny Habits technique. Habits have components, and the 'trigger' or 'cue' is a vital one.
Co-creation with the Wisdom of the Crowd
What I'm also very proud of is that this week we are trying to create something with the LeaderMOOC participants that made it to the end. In a lot of MOOCs there is a project work and participants individually or in small groups create for example videos or images (if the course is on video editing or photo shooting), a prototype for a mobile app (if the topic is mobile applications), etc. The problem with a topic like leadership or any topic that is in the behavioural space is that it doesn't create a 'digital artifact'. We can't ask people to upload their leadership so we can evaluate and discuss it. But we are doing the next big thing: this week we ask participants to suggest and vote for little habits everyone can do to become a better leader. The idea is that when LeaderMOOC is over we can share the top 5 'little habits' suggestions to become a more effective leader in each of the "fundamental four': self-awareness, influencing, communicating and learning agility.In case you want to join in, here are the links. We are using the free (and based on open source) tool AllOurIdeas.Org.
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In this activity, we will all suggest ideas and vote for other people's ideas on little habits to become more effective leaders in each of the fundamental four categories. You can think of it as items in a checklist people can go over every day or every week. The little habits should be:
- Active: Something we can DO.
- Small: Something small that doesn't take a lot of effort or a lot of time.
- Effective: And of course something that helps us be a better leader.
The format of these little habits is: "Did I do ?". You may also suggest a 'trigger' such as "Did I ".
Here are the links to the 4 brainstorming questions on allourideas.org:
 | What little leadership habits can you develop to be better at ... self-awareness? (eg "Did I adapt my behavior to someone else's personality today?") |
 | What little leadership habit can you develop to be better at ... influencing? (eg "Did I refer two people in my network to one another today?") |
 | What little leadership habit can you develop to be better at ... communicating? (eg "Did I ask someone for feedback today?") |
 | What little leadership habit can you develop to be better at ... learning agility? (eg "Did I reflect on what went well and what I could have done better today?") |
Here is how the allourideas.org platform works:
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Next week I'll share some of the statistics, and in later weeks more on the evaluation of our very first MOOC experience. There is one thing I'm already curious about: since people told us their biggest challenge was time we are leaving all materials accessible until the end of the year for people that enroll before the end of the month. I'm wondering how many activity we'll still see after the MOOC has officially finished.
(So hurry up if you want to have a peek: https://learn.canvas.net/courses/117
Previously:
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