According to Peter Drucker, the various practices that constitute effectiveness can be

learned. Illustrate how you have learned and demonstrated effectiveness in your
organizational role.

Suggested answer

According to Peter F Drucker effectiveness is capability of producing an effect; doing the right
things; setting targets; quantitative measure and does not indicate direction. It is possible only
through hard systematic work and can no longer be taken for granted or neglected.

Effectiveness requires dedication and accepting change. It does not correlate with intelligence
and imagination. Effectiveness is a habit that is a complex of practices and practices can be
learned.

Lecturer/teaching
As a faculty member of a college or university I have to deliver professional lectures for
educating, imparting knowledge and skill. Lecturer facilitates learning and monitors progress.
Lecturing is essentially a form of public communication.

Learning and demonstrating effectiveness

This year I have had the opportunity to read the book The Essential Drucker as part of the
method employed to refine and improve my teaching activities. This book encourages my spirit
of exploration with the determination. The skills and ideas from the book are useful to almost
anyone. Things are not easy to implement, and require lots of practice and discipline, but all that
hard work is exactly why I end up a more effective faculty.

I have learned through observing faculty activities in their environment. Moreover, creating and
maintaining a high performing organizational culture involves learning an students activities
(compromising college effectiveness) via observing the inappropriate activities of others;

exponentially deteriorating the overall effectiveness of an organizational structure. It is an active

process whereby I have gained an understanding of historical, social, cultural and personal
experiences that have contributed to my professional knowledge and practice. Through such
active and deliberate process of critically examining practice, I am challenged and enabled to
undertake the process of self-enquiry to realize desirable and effective practice within an
automatic spiral of personal transformation.

Learning through my surroundings and experience encourages me to become aware of my

thoughts (intellectual) and feelings (affective) which relate to a particular learning experience or
area of my practice. It begins with looking back on a situation, pondering over it, learning from
it and then using the new knowledge to help me in future similar situations. By thinking about
what I am doing and why I am doing, it is what turns my experiences into meaningful learning. I
have used that learning to increase my professional knowledge and skills to the benefit of not
only myself but also to my students.

For example, during any practical classes in the Lab I took various test equipments out from the
Almirah and checked their correctness before set-up of the right equipment. This Lab was
efficient, because I was checking the equipment fast and thoroughly, but it was not being
effective, because checking was a step that was not required at all when taking a practical class.
After reading the book The Essential Drucker; I used rack systems where all the right
equipments are set-up permanently for practical classes. I was able to conduct practical classes
using the right steps and doing it quickly, now Lab is both effective and efficient.

Conclusion

Majority of the students had commented positively on the practical nature of the content of the
course module. Many students were positive about the support and communication that I have
provided. Feedback forms show that students learn the subject within a constructivist
environment and my practice promotes this environment. One of my students received the best
project award in the consecutive semesters. I found that this method had stimulated student
interest and that interest can be attributable to my teaching effectiveness. It also improves my
self-development; organization development; and the fulfillment of modern society.