{"id":2266,"date":"2022-08-23T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2022-08-23T16:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T16:05:00","slug":"the-language-we-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/the-language-we-use\/","title":{"rendered":"The Language We Use &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As administrators (and future administrators), we hear a lot about <strong>transformational leadership<\/strong>. But have you ever considered the language you use and the underlying connotations it may suggest?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/corp.smartbrief.com\/original\/2022\/05\/language-of-transformational-leadership?utm_source=brief\" target=\"_blank\">Shepherd&#8217;s article<\/a> (2022) on this topic caused me to take a step back and think more deeply about this issue. And the differentiation he makes between &#8220;complicated&#8221; and &#8220;complex&#8221; problems was especially thought-provoking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feel free to give it a read and see if you don&#8217;t find some interesting takeaways, too! The concepts outlined have the potential to greatly enhance your efforts at team building and school improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As administrators (and future administrators), we hear a lot about transformational leadership. But have you ever considered the language you use and the underlying connotations it may suggest? Shepherd&#8217;s article (2022) on this topic caused me to take a step back and think more deeply about this issue. And the differentiation he makes between &#8220;complicated&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[407,405,233,406,19],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-outdated-language","tag-quintin-shepherd","tag-school-improvement","tag-team-building","tag-transformational-leadership","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2355,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}