%% #🗺️ #🔴 %% [[MA, ORGL]] # ORGL 535 - Listen, Discern, Decide ![[calendar-plus.svg]] <small>May 14, 2022</small> | ![[calendar-clock.svg]] <small>Dec 16, 2022</small> ![[listen.jpg]] Part of the servant-leadership concentration, this course began with a focus on interior and exterior listening. Listening and awareness techniques were then integrated with principles and practices of discernment. Focus shifted from the individual to the group and then to listening, discerning and decision making in organizations and communities. --- ## Objectives & Competencies The purpose of this course was to learn and practice listening and discernment to enhance decision-making at the personal, organizational, and community levels. **Competencies I developed include: - A capacity for listening-first to seek clarity before influence. - A capacity for systems thinking. ## Terms & Concepts - [[servant-leadership]] - [[Silence]] - [[listening]] - [[fortuitous encounters]] - [[discernment]] - [[generative listening]] --- ## Sources Notes on and highlights from research and reading material I've been studying on this subject. #### Books - [[Siddhartha - Hesse 2008]] - [[Fortuitous Encounters - Davis & Spears]] - [[Greenleaf and Servant-Leader Listening - Frick 2011]] - [[On Becoming a Servant-Leader - Frick & Spears 1996]] - [[Listening - Burley-Allen 1995]] - [[Silence - Sardello 2008]] - [[What's Your Decision - Sparough et al. 2010]] #### Articles & Handouts - [[Listening as Goal Directed Activity - Gearhart 2014]] - [[Personal Listening Style Profile - Bodie 2016]] - [[Character and Servant-Leadership - Spears 2022]] - [[Openers - Miller et al. 1983]] - [[Listening Facts - Horsman 2013]] - [[Listening Communication Issues - Horsman]] #### Audio & Video - [[Lincoln - Spielberg 2012]] - [[The art of listening - Krishnamurti 1974]] - [[Peter Senge on Contemplation - Garrison Institute 2010]] - [[Stan Deetz - Reflect on Greenleaf]] --- <small>*Created on:* 2022-05-14</small> <small>*Last modified on:* 2022-12-16</small>