Timing: allow 90 minutes for this activity
First read and make notes on this article:
Vince sets out to be provocative in this article and usefully includes a discussion of emotion in his consideration of power and HRD.
Informed by your reading of this article, now identify:
- a time when you felt powerless at work
- a time when you felt powerful at work.
If you can, try and think about this in relation to an HRD activity. This can be either an activity you were involved in as an HRD practitioner or perhaps when you were a participant in some type of development-focused activity.
For each of these different scenarios draw a mind map of how your experience was related to others and what power relations you experienced. Below an example of a mind map for each scenario is provided in Figures 3.4 and 3.5:
