Marcellin College Leadership Day

Marist Leadership Day Introduction

Peppers Resort Moonah Links

Tuesday 19th January, 2016

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Prayer

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Gratitude A film by Louie Schwartzberg

Narration by Br David Steindl Rast OSB

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/nj2ofrX7jAk

Self Introductions

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Self Introductions Perhaps these headings will prompt us

• My name:

• My symbol:

• My goal:

• My God:

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Overview of today’s program

Session 1 Leadership

Session 2 Marist Leadership

Session 3 Teams and Decision Making

Session 4 Shared Reflection

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Survey Results

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2. What do you understand to be the context for our leadership day?

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What are your hopes for our day together?

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What would you like to see take place during the day?

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Session 1 Leadership

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Leaders who inspire me

Names

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5. _________________

Qualities

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What is Leadership?

Tead (1935) defines leadership as ‘the activity of influencing people to cooperate towards some goal which they’ve come to find desirable’ (Bass, 1990, p.13).

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Leadership

‘The leader operates on the emotional and spiritual resources of the organisation, on its values, commitment, and aspirations … leaders often inspire their followers to high levels of achievement by showing them how their work contr ibutes to worthwhi le ends’ (Bennis and Nanus, 1985).

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Not Uniformity but Unity respecting diversity

(Polyhedron)

Every part is respected as a different part

No Yes

(Sphere)

Br Emili: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM6kIFT1gtk

171 Cor 12:4-11

‘Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the discernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.’

Catholic Leadership

Transactional Leaders

• Burns sees transactional leaders as people who ‘approach followers with an eye to exchanging one thing for another: jobs for votes, or subsidies for campaign contributions. Such transactions comprise the bulk of the relationships among leaders and followers, especially in groups, legislatures, and parties’ (Bass, 1990, p.23).

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Transformational Leaders

• Burns believes the transformational leader goes further, ‘seeking to satisfy higher needs, in terms of Maslow’s (1954) need hierarchy, to engage the full person of the follower (Bass, 1990, p.23).

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Maslow’s Theory of Hierarchical Needs

http://www.slideshare.net/sidbarat/maslows-theory-of-hierarchy-of-needs

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Leaders more than Managers

1. Leaders think longer term.

2. Leaders think about the larger organisation.

3. Leaders take their team members beyond the boundaries.

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Leaders more than Managers

4. Leaders emphasise vision, values and the intuitive.

5. Leaders have the political skill to cope with conflicting requirements of multiple constituencies.

6. Leaders think in terms of renewal required by ever-changing reality.

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My natural way of leading

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Session 2 Marist Leadership



The following people display these forms of leadership

• Traditional

• Legalistic

• Charismatic

• Laissez-faire

• Servant

• Transactional

• Transformational

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Marist Leadership

Rarely Sometimes Always

Bureaucratic

Catholic

Charismatic

Instructional

Servant

Traditional

Transactional

Transformational

Our Marist Identity

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1. Identifies with Marcellin Champagnat

2. Acts like Mary

3. Adopts Characteristics

4. Nurtures Community

5. Embraces a Specific Mission

1 Identifies with Marcellin Champagnat

‘The group’s way of living the Gospel was a reflection of the character, values, and spirituality of its leader, Marcellin Champagnat. His spirituality was deeply influenced by his own personality.’ (WFR6)

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Catholic Education

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We keep alive the attitude of Father Champagnat, as did our first Brothers, by giving ourselves whole - heartedly to the task assigned to us … in union with the Church. (C17)

First and foremost every Catholic institution is a place to encounter the living God who in Jesus Christ reveals his transforming love and truth. (Benedict XVI, Address to Catholic Educators in the United States, 2008)

Letter from ParisBelow is an excerpt from Br Augustin’s recently published book on Marcellin Champagnat.

8.3 Leadership from afar

The mere fact that almost all of his letters from Paris are addressed to Brother Franço up to date about all important developments at the Motherhouse, and he had to see to it that Marcellin’s precise instructions and wishes concerning current problems and daily decisions were followed and carried out.

The directions Marcellin gave Brother François were unambiguous:I presume, my very dear Brother, that when I reach home, you will not be satisfied with telling me from memory the different incidents which may have taken place during my absence. It is very important that I be well informed about everything, so that I can continue to govern the house with the help of your advice and that of the other members. It is important that you have written a day by day account, since my departure. Discuss it with Brothers Stanislas, Jean-Marie and the other Brothers who have employment; Brother Bonaventure, a memorandum also about whatconcerns him. I do not mean just the Brothers who are in the house, but even those in the establishments: the requests made, in a word, everything which concerns or should concern the superior of a community.” (185)

This is a very informative passage indeed, showing unmistakably again his great qualitiesas a leader and organiser. On the one hand, he gives unequivocal instructions from his position as the confident superior but, on the other, he very much values collective, even democratic decision-making, specifying the role of those who should be involved (Hendlmeier, 2008, 56-57).

BibliographyHendlmeier, A. (2008). Marcellin Champagnat Saint and Founder of the Little Brothers of Mary A portrait based on his letters. Haaksbergen: Marist Brothers.

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Are you weak enough to become Superior General?

Br Emili: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM6kIFT1gtk

Are we weak enough to allow God to act in our lives?

2. Acts like Mary

Made contemporary by each generation … [Marist spirituality] retains its Marial and apostolic dimensions.

Our task is to incarnate this spirituality in the many cultures and situations in which the Institute finds itself at the moment (WFRp.9).

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The Wedding Feast at Cana

John 2:1-5

On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what concern is that to you and to me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you”.

‘Through her instructions to the servants the mother of Jesus, who at that hour will become the mother of all believers, begins here her role of nurturing faith.’ (Byrne, 2014, p.55)

3. Adopts Characteristics

We are inspired by the home of Nazareth to develop those attitudes that make family spirit a reality: love and forgiveness, support and help, forgetfulness of self, openness to others and joy. This style of relating has become a characteristic of our way of being Marist.

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Marist Education

1. Learning 2. Faith Development 3. Solidarity with the Poor 4. Discerning Leadership 5. Responding Prophetically to the World

McMahon, 2005, pp.3-9 (Article in the folder)

Influence over power

’The University of Melbourne’s Glyn Davis, now the country’s longest-serving vice-chancellor, heads the list. Not because he’s prevailed where others haven’t. Not just because he’s still here. But because Davis is the epitome of influence over power. A man of ideas, Davis’s raison d’etre is conceiving the impossible dream and taking everyone along on the journey to achieve it. Behind the scenes, his influence in unequalled because anyone as intelligent and considered as Davis can only be ignored by a fool’

(The Australian, 13th January, 2016, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/special-features/higher-education-30-most-influential-2016/news-story/32518529239a8924d6da4f29919ca349)

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Buffer’s Ten most Important Values for Today’s World

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4. Nurtures Community

Marists understood their project to be a sharing in Mary's work of bringing Christ-life to birth and being with the Church as it came to be born. It was a work which they hoped would touch every diocese of the world, and would be structured like a multi-branched tree (WFR11).

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Below is an excerpt from Hugh Mackay’s recently published book ‘The Art of Belonging’ (2014, pp.28-29).

‘In cities, towns and suburbs all around the Western world, the same concern is being aired: do we look out for each other as much as we used to? Are neighbourhoods functioning as well as they did in the past?

Some of this might be good old-fashioned nostalgia, but there’s a sufficiently persistent pattern of concern to warrant some investigation. And the starting point is to recognise that the two most common complaints about ‘decline’ in Western societies are inextricably linked. First: Our communities are not functioning as well as they once did. Second: Our shared values are not as clear or strong as they once were; the idea of right and wrong is more slippery than it used to be. How can you separate those two things? The moral sense is, after all, a social sense: we develop our moral codes and systems out of the experience of learning how to get along with other people - first in the family, then in the classroom and the playground, and finally in the wider community. It’s not the values we’re taught that shape our true morality: it’s what works in practice.

Cohesive communities produce coherent moral systems. So communities are not just places where we can belong; they are also places where we learn to tell right from wrong and distinguish good from bad. Communities are our moral teachers and, when they’re working well, they’re also our moral guardians’.

Bibliography Mackay, H. (2016). The Art of Belonging. Sydney: Pan Macmillan.

Community and Morality

Moral Leadership‘I am pleased that you have seen the article on Brother Bill. I realised in my research on his life that what he had done through his botanical work had a far greater good because of his love for God in living out his vocation. I felt that his work should not be hidden under a bushel as it could give light to our world that has lost many of its moral compasses. I felt that it was also timely in the light of Pope Francis Encyclical Laudato Si where we are implored to care for our common home. This Pope’s vision certainly imbued Bro Bill’s work. I can readily find various key paragraphs in the encyclical to explain the significance of Bro Bill’s work. Various people in the botanical world who I shared it with gave me very good feedback about the article.’

Augustine Doronila

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‘I am because we are’ The whole is greater than the part.

The group gives us our identity. We are invited to go beyond our own

boundaries.

Br Emili Turu

Today’s Digital World says People are Self Directed and

Seeking Meaning

Kennedy, C. (2015). Tips to evolve your digital marketing. Retrieved from https://plus.google.com/+marketo/posts 42

Helen Timperley speaks about Professional Conversations

Enablers: Resources, Relationships, Challenge, Processes, Knowledge and

Culture

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5 Specific Mission

Marcellin and his first Brothers saw in … [the Memorare in the snow event] a deeper reality: God's choice of them to share in the same mission that was entrusted to Mary (WFR7).

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Marist School

A Marist School is a centre of learning, of life and of evangelising. As a school, in leads students ‘to learn to know, to be competent, to live together and most especially, to grow as persons’ (ITF, 126).

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Marists Look to the Future

• ‘… we are already experiencing a change in moving towards a global mindset, increasing interculturality and further involving the laity at all levels’ (Olivari).

Leaders of the New Models of Animation, Government and Management Project gather. (2015). Latest news on the site. Retrieved from http://

www.champagnat.org/400.php?a=6&n=3762

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Marist Leaders

1. Communicate life (engaging)

2. Participate in the community (communal)

3. Are theologically attuned (discerning)

4.Focus on the other (servant)

5.Facilitate growth (transformational)

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Session 3 Teams and Decision

Making Marist Leadership Day



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Most of us are members of a Leadership Team

and leaders of another team

Our responsibilities differ in each

Guidelines for Marist Team Members

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2. ___________________________________

3. ___________________________________

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5. ___________________________________

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Guidelines for Team Members

1. We respect each other 2. We support each other 3. We appreciate everyone’s

contribution 4. We’re always professional 5. We operate in a spirit of fun and

friendship 6. We keep it positive 7. We’re a gossip free zone 8. We deal with our disagreements in

private.

Christensen, 2016, pp.40-41

Proposed Marist Decision Making Process

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Marist Decision Making

1. The Leader makes decisions after appropriate discernment.

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2. Everyone affected by a decision is consulted prior to the decision being taken.

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3. Leaders are elected or appointed for fixed terms of office, normally three years

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4. Members change groups from time to time.

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5. Periodically groups come together for assemblies involving all the groups in the organisation.

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Marist Decision Making6. All groups follow the same constitution or charter.

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Marist Decision Making7. The leader of the assembly appoints the group leaders.

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Marist Decision Making8. Complaints can be made to the assembly leader about the group leader, after informing the group leader.

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Marist Decision Making9. All decisions and consultations are documented.

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Marist Decision Making10. Group leaders maintain close contacts with Church authorities.

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Unless the grain of wheat …

Session 4 Shared Reflection



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Marcellin College 2016

A Thriving Marist Community

With whom do I identify in this group?

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Reflection Time

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Our Team’s Marist Leadership Goals

My Hopes

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Our team’s leadership goals for 2016

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My Marist Leadership Goals for 2016

My leadership goals for 2016

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Further Study on Marist Leadership

Location: Marist College, Canberra

Dates: 6-7 August and 27-28 August, 2016

Course: Marist Educational Leadership

Presenter: Br John McMahon

Accreditation: ACU Masters

[email protected] www.mte.org.au

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Contact for Marist Tertiary Programs

• Website: www.mte.org.au

• Blog: www.johnmcmahon.id.au

• Email: [email protected]

• Facebook: www.facebook.com/maristblog

• Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/johnmcmahon

• Twitter: @johnrmcmahon

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Concluding Prayer (Booklet in the folder)



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Our Sources

• Burns, J. (1978). Leadership. New York: Harper & Row

• Burns, J. (2003). Transforming Leadership. London: Atlantic.

• bufferopen. (2015). Retrieved from https://open.buffer.com/buffer-values/

• Christensen, M. (2016). Be a Network Marketing Leader. New York: AMACOM.

• Constitutions and Statutes. (2011). Rome: Marist Brothers of the Schools.

• Estaún, A. (Ed.). (2007). Water from the Rock. Rome: Institute of the Marist Brothers.

• Gardner, J. (1990). On Leadership. New York: The Free Press.

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Our Sources

• Greenleaf, R. (1977). Servant Leadership. Mahwah: Paulist.

•In the Footsteps of Marcellin Champagnat A Vision for Marist Education Today. (1998). Rome: The International Marist Education Commission.

• Kennedy, C. (2015). Tips to evolve your digital marketing. Retrieved from https://plus.google.com/+marketo/posts

• Leaders of the New Models of Animation, Government and Management Project gather. (2015). Latest news on the site. Retrieved from http://www.champagnat.org/400.php?a=6&n=3762

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Our Sources

• Maslow’s Theory of Hierarchy of Needs. (2015). Retrieved from www.slideshare.net/sidbarat/maslows-theory-of-hierarchy-of-needs

• McMahon, J. (2005). Beginnings. Champagnat, 7(1), 3-9.

•Roth, G., & Wittich, C. (Eds.). (1978 [1921]). Max Weber Economy and Society. Berkeley: University of California Press.

• Timperley, H. (2015). Enablers of Effective Professional Conversations. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJrkAENKjzw

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Leadership & Management

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