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Leadership in VET
Leadership in VET
To warm up!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjJg9NfTXos&feature=player_detailpage
Leadership in VET
Popular Management and Leadership distinction
To do the things right vs doing the right things.
Makes people cut trees faster vs “the wrong forest!!”
Puts the ladder in the right place and let management climb it
Leadership in VET
The fluid distinction
Manager
• do things right;
• seek control, create and follow the rules;
• focus on how things should be done;
• seek compliance;
• value secrecy;
• use formal authority (hierarchy).
Leader
* do the right things;
* see people as great assets;
* seek commitment;
* focus on outcomes;
* see what could be done and why;
* share information;
* promote networks
Leadership in VET
Do you fit your profile?
12 competence profiles for VET Leaders in the Netherlands
The National Associations Governance Code
40 different traits characteristics demands or competences
Leadership in VET
All we need is……
Visionary
Communicator
Entrepreneural
Result-oriented
Cooperative
Teambuilder
Leadership in VET
And on the side….
Networker
Binding personality
Integrity
Accountable
Experienced in complexity
Sensitive
Inspiring
Leadership in VET
Not very VET specific
Integrity
Authentic
Sensitive
Inspiring
Empathetic
Resultoriented
Must like children…….
Leadership in VET
Will wish lists make the dream come true?
A real human being
What makes the difference
Are wish lists often or not put aside.
“I will take the red one”
Leadership in VET
What is leadership?
Blake and Mouton to Covey
Descriptive or analytical
Nature or Nurture
Inherent or attributive
Contextual or creational
Moral or profesional
Leadership in VET
Leading a professional?
DON’T !!!!!!!!
Mattieu Weggeman
Leadership in VET
What is a professional??
Results of a survey…….
Leadership in VET
What is a professional
1. A soccer player
2. A boxer
3. A physician/surgeon
12 A teacher
Leadership in VET
Requirements for a professional
Permanent Education
Rules of conduct
Profesional conventions and standards
Employer directives
Client power
Leadership in VET
Rules of conduct
Permanent Education
Client power
VET-teacher
Employer directives
Professional conventions
and standards
Professional
Leadership in VET
Leadership in VET
Leading a professional
Requires a professional to lead
So the circles must match the behavior of the professional
Requires a professional manager/leader
So also for them the circles must match the behavior
Leadership in VET
Leading a Professional
Yes!!
But do it professionally and develop and require profesionals in those functions
Leadership in VET
But remember:
We are all amateurs …
life is to short
to become a professional
Charlie Chaplin
Leadership in VET
What does literature say (1)
Blake and Mouton1964
Leadership in VET
What does literature say (2) Know yourself and aim at selfimprovement
Know your trade
Take up responsible tasks and act responsibly
Take good and timely decisions
Give the good example
Know your people and take care of their welfare
Inform your people
Develop a sense of responsibility with your people
Ensure that tasks are well understood, guided and accomplished
Train your people to act like a team
Use all the capacities in the team that are available
Leadership in VET
What does literature say (3) Quinn
IntegratorPeople orientedMentor Stimulator
InnovatorInnovationorientationInnovatorMediator
ControllerControl orientedcoordinator
OperationalProducer Director
High
Flexibility
Low
Internal ExternalOrientation
Leadership in VET
What does literature say (4) Hersey and Blanchard
Support
Country club
Coach
Teamwork
Delegate
Bureaucracy
Tell/ direct
Assembly line
High
SupportiveBehavior
low
High Directive behavior low
WILL
SKILL
Leadership in VET
What does literature say (5) Covey
A good leader helps people to develop their potential and inspires others to do the same
Leadership in VET
8 habits Be proactive
Begin with the goal in mind
Set priorities
Think in win-win terms
Understand first then be understood
Synergy
Continuous improvement
Live from your own force and inspire others to do the same
Leadership in VET
Humor or reality
Scott Adams /Dilbert
Peter Principle
Management by Hypocricy
Freudian Leadership
Voicing leadership
Leadership in VET
Scott Adams
Leaders are people that are being paid to stay away as far from the primary process as possible to ensure that they will not disrupt it”
Leadership in VET
Peter Principle
People get promoted to the point that they have reached a level that they are inadequate for.
Leadership in VET
Management by hypocrisy
Leadership and managemnt primary function is to keep the illusion of control in place.
Once they have demonstrated not to be able to do that they get a lot of money to leave
This is a rational process
Leadership in VET
Freudian Leadership
A good leader is the leader that behaves like the parent I would have liked to have
Leadership in VET
Cooling down: On future Leadership
http://www.ted.com/talks/adora_svitak.html