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Writing to Reflect: Mindful Leadership in the Face of Change

Powell, Elizabeth A.

BC-0217 | Published March 4, 2007 | 6 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

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"Writing to Reflect" introduces the use of writing as an aid to creative and critical thinking in the context of leading change. The note explains how the process of reflective writing slows thinking and encourages improved skills in sense making, analysis, decision making, and metacognition. Included are ideas on how to get started and 13 writing prompts related to leading change.

1) Introduce writing to reflect as a technique that aids creative and critical thinking. 2) Encourage the use of writing to reflect as an aid to leading change. 3) Provide practical writing prompts that can help the reader get started. 4) Enrich leaders' capacity to be reflexive about themselves, those they lead, and the change process.