For the September ELP seminar, the class met at Sabine Hall on the Richland College Campus. The seminar focused on project leadership and featured panelists with backgrounds in both architecture and construction. Our invited guests were Patrick Glenn, a principal with Perkins + Will; Wade Andres, President and CEO of Andres Construction; and Stephen R. Miller, a project manager with Andres Construction.
Pete’s session began with a fun collaborative exercise that helped everyone recall and situate all the analytical models that we’ve studied throughout the year with regard to leadership development. By using the dashboard of an automobile as a metaphor, we broke into groups and related each of the concepts to the instruments and gauges we all utilize in driving our vehicles. The goal was to situate the various analytical models as if they were instruments on a dashboard---where would we place them? How would we use them? How are they connected and interdependent? The dashboard represents self-awareness of the automobile machine in real time; Pete used it as a metaphor because all of the analytical models are tools to better understand ourselves as developing leaders. Each group sketched their automobile dash on the dry erase board and presented their ideas to the class. One group applied the Johari Window model (Open, Hidden, Blind, and Unknown Self) to all components of the dash, while the other groups expanded upon the Farm Gate, Leadership Effectiveness Triangle, and the Dynamics of Competency Model.
Next, Pete presented the product realization model diagram and closed the session with a group discussion where we applied it to the practice of architecture, relating the workflows and processes conveyed in the diagram to the workflows and processes each of us keenly know as practicing architects. We looked at the diagram from the perspective of innovator, bridger and adaptor types to understand where each of these cognitive problem solving styles most naturally fit within the phases of the product realization model.
Nick Richardson
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