Moving Your School from
Good to Great
Based on the books:
Learning from the Best
Growing Greatness in the
Christian School
by Gene Frost
Presented by:
Gene Frost, EdD
Head of School
Wheaton Academy
Good to Great
by Jim Collins
Copyright © Wheaton Academy. Copyright © Dr. Eugene A. Frost. All rights reserved.
What does Collins say greatness looks like
and how did I find it at work in good to great
schools?





Level 5 Leadership
First who, then what
Brutal facts
Hedgehog Concept
Flywheel
Copyright © Wheaton Academy. Copyright © Dr. Eugene A. Frost. All rights reserved.
It All Begins with
Leadership
Are you a leader or a manager?
“A student is not above
his teacher nor a servant
above his master.”
Matthew 10:24
Based in part on Jim Collins’ bestselling book, “Good to Great”
(2001)
Copyright  Wheaton Academy. Copyright  Eugene A. Frost. All rights reserved.
good management
(effective & efficient operations)
Need for good management &
leadership
Effective maintenance
Effective growth
Ineffective maintenance
Ineffective growth
Good leadership
(growth & mission accomplishment)
Copyright  Wheaton Academy. Copyright  Eugene A. Frost. All rights reserved.
Level 5 Leadership
Level 5: Level 5 Executive
Professional Will and
Personal Humility
Level 4: Effective Leader
Level 3: Competent Manager
Level 2: Contributing Tem Member
Level 1: Highly Capable Individual
Good to Great, page 20
Copyright  Wheaton Academy. Copyright  Eugene A. Frost. All rights reserved.
Highly Capable Individuals
Makes productive contributions through:
 talent
 knowledge
 skills
 good work habits
Copyright  Wheaton Academy. Copyright  Eugene A. Frost. All rights reserved.
Talent
• What is your God-given talents and how do you
exercise them in a school setting?
Knowledge
• Where and how will you gain knowledge needed to run
a Christian school successfully?
• What is the next thing you need to know?
• What are you reading and what have you learned that
applies to Christian schools?
Skills
• What do you do better than anyone else in your
building?
• What skills do you need to develop?
Work Habits
• Where could you be a better example?
Copyright  Wheaton Academy. Copyright  Eugene A. Frost. All rights reserved.
Contributing Team Member
Contributes individual capabilities to the
achievement of group objectives and works
effectively with others in a group setting.



Do you survey your team? Who? How often?
What have you learned or what do you think you
might learn?
Do your people want you on their team? How do
you know?
Copyright  Wheaton Academy. Copyright  Eugene A. Frost. All rights reserved.
Competent Manager
Organizes people and resources towards the
effective and efficient pursuit of predetermined
objectives.



Are effective, efficient, and repeatable processes
in place?
Are you managing your school to specific goals
and objectives?
What have been the most helpful management
tools you have found?
Copyright  Wheaton Academy. Copyright  Eugene A. Frost. All rights reserved.
Effective Leader
Catalyzes commitment to and vigorous pursuit of a
clear and compelling vision, stimulating higher
performance standards.



What customer surveys (students and parents)
do you use?
How do you use the survey results?
How are you insuring that your teachers and
staff are pursuing your schools vision and the
highest standards of performance?
Copyright  Wheaton Academy. Copyright  Eugene A. Frost. All rights reserved.
Level 5 Executive
Builds enduring greatness through a
paradoxical blend of personal humility and
professional will.
Copyright  Wheaton Academy. Copyright  Eugene A. Frost. All rights reserved.
The Two Sides of Level 5 Leadership
Professional Will
Creates superb results, a clear catalyst in
the transition from good to great
Personal Humility
Demonstrates a compelling modesty,
shunning public adulation; never boastful.
Demonstrates an unwavering resolve to
Acts with quiet, calm determination;
do whatever must be done to produce
relies principally on inspired standards,
the best long-term results, no matter how not inspiring charisma, to motivate.
difficult.
Sets the standard of building and
enduring great company; will settle for
nothing less.
Channels ambition into company, not the
self; sets up successors for even greater
success in the next generation.
Looks in the mirror, not out the window,
to apportion responsibility for poor
results, never blaming other people,
external factors, or bad luck.
Looks out the window, not the mirror, to
apportion credit for the success of the
company – to other people, external
factors, and good luck.
Good to Great, page 36
The Most Critical Job of the Leader
Getting the Right People on the Bus and in the
Right Seats!
“The body is a unit, though it is
made up of many parts; and
though all its parts are many,
they form one body. So it is
with Christ.”
1 Corinthians 12:12
Based in part on Jim Collins’ bestselling
book, “Good to Great” (2001)
Copyright  Wheaton Academy. Copyright  Eugene A. Frost. All rights reserved.
Who Then What
What Program
WhoStaff
Mission Foundation
Copyright ©
Wheaton Academy.
Copyright © Dr.
Eugene A. Frost. All
rights reserved.
Criteria for Who’s on the Bus
1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
6)
7)
Born again believer – credible testimony
Christian character and growing spiritual life
Love for students
Gift of relating to and discipling students
Team player
Gift of teaching
Knowledge and skills to teach required
subject
Copyright  Wheaton Academy. Copyright  Eugene A. Frost. All rights reserved.
Are the right people on your bus?



Do you have clear rubrics? For example:
“teachers must…”
Getting the wrong people off the bus
Getting the right people on the bus
Copyright  Wheaton Academy. Copyright  Eugene A. Frost. All rights reserved.
The Right People in the Right
Seats
Examples –




Eric
Jon
Steve
Jim
Copyright Wheaton Academy. Copyright Eugene A. Frost. All rights reserved.