Leadership Final

The Leadership Ladder

So You want to LeadAPPA Senior Management Conference

September 12th 2009

Workshop Outline

• Leadership - What is it?• Leadership - What do effective leaders do?• Leadership - Tools to further develop leadership

effectiveness• Leadership - Examples of leadership in action

Macro and micro• Leadership - Structures and systems that support change• Leadership - Making it happen?

Could, should and why would one climb?

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea” Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Leadership - No RecipeI often find inspiration about leadership and how to lead in quotes

Leadership - Your story

• Why are you a leader?• How did you become a leader?• What are your beliefs about leadership?• What do you enjoy most about leading?• Where do you want to take your leadership?

Leadership - No recipe

Think of a leader you admire, what do you admire about their leadership?

OR

Think about what gets up your nose about leaders you have been led by?

Jot down your thoughts and ideas

Leadership - What is it?

• You have 25 words only to define leadership

Leadership is …

Let’s Share

Everyone has a narrative that shapes their practice

Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts.John Gardner

Leadership Definition

• Leadership has been described as the “process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task.

• Alan Keith said "Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.”

• A simple definition of leadership is that leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal.

Power of Student Voice

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Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies

and expands a vision of the future.

Edwin Friedman

So what do effective leaders Do?

We have an understanding about what leadership is …

Chat with the person next to you

Role ModelBeing a learner

Walk the talkDo what you say you are going to do

ListenSincerely and intently to all stakeholders

MotivateGive feedback

Build Relationshiptake time to get to know people

ThinkIn all sorts of ways

My Colleagues Thoughts

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Let’s Imagine a leaders world like this …

What do these voices suggest one cling onto?

Leadership Parts

I

WE

IT

Developing self as a leader

Building relationships/ relating to and with the people

Developing strategies, knowledge and understandings to lead effectively

Transformational leadership in action SO WHAT

I

Developing Self ‘I’

Building self awarenessWhat are my preferences, strengths, weaknesses,

What do I need to work harder at? Finding your value add What makes me tick?, Spins my wheels?What do I lose time doing?Open to feedback and learningWhat do people think of me?, How do you actively receive feedback?, Why would I want to be led by you?

“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”John Fitzgerald Kennedy

I

Developing Self ‘I’Being a Role ModelManaging your own wellbeing, work/life balanceUsing tools to help you understand selfMyers Briggs, Hermann Whole brain thinking, 4 P’s

“A great leader's courage to fulfill their vision comes from passion, not position.”John Maxwell

Developing ‘We’Actively builds Community Getting to know people you don’t knowTaking time to build relationship with all stake holdersValues differencesDeveloping Emotional intelligenceBeing congruent in how you act, and what you say and do.Checking on Morale (vote 5)Nurtures Leadership Actively builds leadership capacity in others

I

WE

Developing ‘We’Developing CultureTalk about the hard to talk about stuffSurface ‘How things are done around here’ discover the unspoken rulesDeveloping Norms “Go to the source”It’s about the peopleLove your people“It’s a terrible thing as a leader to look over your shoulder and no one is following”How to communicate effectively to connect with different people(Learning from Hermann)

I

WE

Developing ‘It’Big Picture ThinkingConceptualising the big picture, synthesizing ideasBeing StrategicKnowing where and how to start

Embed and Abandon Future TrendsBeing open to future predictionsChange agentGrow Leadership Knowledge/CapabilityNetworking, Reading, PDFullen calls it leading knowledgeablyDecision Maker

I

WE

IT

Big thinkers are specialists in creating positive, forward-looking, optimistic pictures in their own minds and in the minds of others. David J. Schwartz

Developing ‘It’ Cont.Being Disciplined(1 of Howard Gardner’s 5 Minds) Sticking to your Core Business - Lead LearningViewing with fresh eyesBeing presentBe creativeCreating room for change to happen from the floorCreating an environment and culture of risk takingOpen to Learning ConversationsBuilding capability around having the hard to have conversations

If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy. Miyamoto Mursashi

Walking the talkApplying all elements (I, We, It) of leadership to transform, make a differenceEmbedded in a culture and attitude of continuous improvement

So What …

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.Kenneth Blanchard

Leadership in ActionBig Picture

A big picture examples of leadership in action…

Getting people on board

• Putting all the leadership elements together (I, We, It) - How does one influence and motivate people within the organisation to reach a transformational outcome?

In 2005 it was time to revision The stage was set.

Creating Urgency - Having a valid need to drive change

Creating a Shared Purpose

• Generating a collective direction/shared purpose/vision

• Thinking about the process, being strategic. What are the questions to be answered?

• Ensuring all voices are heard• Creating ownership by thinking through together - ‘done with not

done to’

Tips and TechniquesWhat we have learnt

10/4 Voting strategy - John Edwards

If it’s important - Give it time (recent sports days to release teachers)

Include everyone - support staff, students, parents etc (Do your support staff understand the vision in your school?)

Being Strategic

Big Picture - Where to start?

Unpacked LLL Embed/Abandon

Vision

What does the teaching practice look like?

05

05

Strategic direction

Student profile clarity

Using images/metaphors

Collective

AFL Context PL lead teachers

Student Empowerment 07

Power of student voice

Numeracy PD06

08Unpacked

Community

Split screen thinking

Creating a shared language

09 PL school wide focus

Change influences

Change fundamentals

Our steps

Ahas

Audience Specific

Cross CurricularGoing deep

Change Enablers Keeping it Simple

Vision - Collective direction and purpose

Student Profile- What will the student leave the school being able to do as a result of the vision principles

Teaching Practice – What pedagogical practices are required to ensure that each student will leave after 6 years as the profile outlines

Aligning Practice with Belief

Intentionally Building Culture

Why focus on Culture?

One must understand the culture tounderstand the organization. Building anunderstanding of the complex layers withinan organization is a pre requisite for effectiveand significant change to occur. Stoll andFink reinforce that “careful internal diagnosisand understanding of cultural issues bearsmost fruit” (1996:91)

Defining Norms?

‘Believe it - Achieve it’‘Go to the Source’‘Room to grow’

Creating a shared language for how things are done around here

Meeting protocol’sSide talking is not okBeing late is not ok

You must unite your constituents around a common cause and connect with them as human beings.James Kouzes and Barry Posner

Leadership in ActionSystems Level

What systems and structures are required to enable risk taking, creativity and innovation from the floor?

Leadership Structures

PD Overview

Performance Management

Central Beliefs – We are all learners, Performance

management is maximising both informal and formal opportunities to improve

teacher effectiveness and ultimately raise student outcomes. An Effective

Performance appraisal process is owned by the individual,

evidence is collected to show growth overtime.

Tools/Strategies to support effective Leadership

Some possibilities…

Developing Leadership - Leading Learning

Power of Progressions

Tools to support reflectionAssists in setting rigorous goalsProvides a scaffold to give constructive feedbackHelps Answer

How am I going?Where am I going?Where to next?

Feedback

Feedback loops - Leaders too!Time for dialogue - ‘Open to learning conversations’Leadership buddies

Use of 360 surveys

I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.Ralph Nader

Leadership in Action Some more micro change examples

Implementing student led conferences

Student Led Conferences

Change Process

Outside Expert - Completing her PHD

Asked for teachers interested in trialing

Met to dialogue, question, discuss how we might go about it

Communicated to parents

Captured student, parent and teacher voices before, during and after the process

Gathered evidence - survey monkey

Pilot teachers shared back to the rest of the staff

What did the students think?

Flynn - It’s better than the three way

conferences.  I prefer it more because I can just talk to my Mum

and dad and then they get to talk.

Sophie – I think I’d rather be with Student Led Conferences

because the three way conferences the teacher was usually the one

talking.

Kayla - It’s really fun to have 45 minutes to tell your parents

about your learning.  I feel really happy – it’s really fun.  I liked

showing my Mum the walls, especially

the Topic wall.  I most enjoyed getting

time to talk to my Mum about my

learning.

Emily – Flicking through the pages in

the Star Learning Book and showing where I am up to in my Maths

strategies

Comments from room 4 students

Developing Learning Progressions

A 2009 Strategic Plan Goal is for students to be able to answer the questions

How am I going?Where am I going?Where to next?

The outcome is to provide Stretch for Learners Photos

Life Long Learner

July 05 –What are the qualities of successful self managing learners?

Asked Teachers What LLL looked like?

Collected Video Data of 100student responses

Life Long Learning

Growing Teacher Effectiveness - Creating Clarity

Differentiating Professional Learning

Mentor - Beginning Teacher ProgrammeMentor - New Experienced TeachersCoaching - Experienced RBS Teachers

Time is neutral and does not change things. With courage and initiative, leaders change things.Jesse Jackson

Making it Happen

Being Brave Setting Goals - Backward map plansBeing open and present to opportunities that ariseContinually developing I, We, It of leadership

It’s up to you - the choice is yours …

Do not follow where the path may lead.Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.Harold R. McAlindon

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.John Quincy Adams

“Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.”Max Depree

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