Session 8 Summary of Group E-portofolio

Summary of Group E-portofolio

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Resource 21

We had classes about scenario planning for an organization or a company, but do you know that scenario planning can also be applied to personal career development? Here is a simple guidance on how to do personal scenario planning:

Session 7 Neo (Hao Qiang)

The scenario planning for NOG

According to GBN, scenario planning has five basic steps:

Stage 1: determine a focal issue or critical decision to ‘anchor’ the process.

Stage 2: identify and analyze the internal and external driving forces after the decision (these drivers are usually categorized into ‘predetermined elements’, those which we have a good idea about how they will play out over time – for example, demographics, and ‘critical uncertainties’, those which we have no real understanding of how they will develop into the future).

Session 6 Neo (Hao Qiang)

Storytelling-Power of analogy

I work in a language training school for three years, and the school hires new teachers every year. Sometimes there is need for new teachers to explain sth highly abstract to their students, and no matter how carefully they prepare their instruction; they will find that students are either bored or confused by the instruction. In such situation, I think an analogy is usually helpful illustrating their ideas and keeping students interested. The following story is what I communicate with them before:

Most language teachers know that reciting passages in foreign language is painful, but highly worthwhile exercise, and students should go through such an experience anyway if they want to improve from the entry level to an intermediate level, but how to make students understand the necessity of reciting? That’s an abstract topic confronted by most language teachers.

Resource 10 Another LO case study

I found it hard to understand thoroughly all the concepts of a learning organization by only one case study of HKU Education department in class, so I read some other research articles after class.
This is a good one that I want to recommend to you: The learning organization ten years on: a case study. The case study object is Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

Resource 9 Apple as an organization that always changes

Apple as an organization that always changes

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Session 5 Neo (Hao Qiang)

Review group workplace case: compare similarities and differences and develop a table evidencing this.

Session 5 Data Collection

This post only aims at listing every group member's survey results from "Learning Organization Survey" to facilitate this session's assignment.


Workplace of Neo (Hao Qiang): New Oriental Technology & Education Group (NOG)

Resources 2: Teachers as Leaders Within Their School Communities

We know that education institution needs to change itself to catch up with the fast changing modern society demands, but what should an education institution do when it faces strong obstacles from its members who stick to old tradition and comfort?
This is the answer from a teacher in such an education institution:
Teachers as Leaders Within Their School Communities

Resource 1: Organizational Assessment

The final assignment for this module is to devise a plan that their organization might follow to assist in development, change and innovation. Without a good understanding of the current state of the organization you are working for, it is nearly impossible to plan for its future. Thus, a careful organization assessment should be carried out before plan development. If you lack relevant knowledge, the following book may offer you some help:

Click here to view its online free version.

Session 4 Neo (Hao Qiang)

Requirement: What Professional Development happens in your workplace? What strategies does your organisation have in place to encourage development, change and innovation?

Professional development (PD) refers to any organizations’ arranged paths for employees to improve their skills to adapt to changes. According to ERIC database, “professional development for teachers” has more specification than the general definition of PD:

"PD for teachers refers to “activity to enhance professional career growth”. Such activities may include individual development, continuing education, and in-service education, as well as curriculum writing, peer collaboration, study groups, and peer coaching or mentoring."

PD is important to most organizations for human resources (HR) are one of their most valuable assets, and PD can help them cultivate and improve the quality of their HR.

Session 3 Neo (Hao Qiang)

Requirement: Develop and articulate ideas for describing leading change in an organization of your choice.

In M. Fullan’s book Leading in a Culture of Change (2001) five core mind-action sets of leadership were described as the collective determinants of an organization’s successful change. The following content will try to apply Fullan’s five variables to analyze my previous workplace-New Oriental Technology & Education Group (NOG).

Session 2 Neo (Hao Qiang)

Requirement: Identify a model of change to help explain change within an organization you have experienced.

The model that my workplace can fit in is the Technology Adoption Model. The following content will cover the background information of my workplace, the analysis of my workplace based on Technology Adoption Model and Diffusion of Innovation Theory.

1. Background Knowledge about my workplace

I worked as an English teacher in the largest language training school in Beijing, which is named New Oriental Technology & Education Group (NOG). It went public in New York Stock Exchange in 2006, and successfully got more than $10 million investment to further its infrastructure construction, human resource reservation, curriculum development and advertisement.

As for the ICT implementation of the whole school, the objective was stated as to “take advantage of the power of ICT to make the information presentation clearer and more attractive”.

Session 1 Neo (Hao Qiang)

Requirement: Report on your present or previous experiences in the workplace. How best would you describe how your organization learns?

1. Background Information about my previous workplace

I worked as an English teacher in the largest language training school in Beijing, which is named New Oriental Technology & Education Group (NOG). Though my workplace is always believed to be an active reformer in education realm of mainland China by its competitors and many Chinese educators and, it still can not be counted as a good learning organization considering mainland’s whole picture of backward education.