Welcome to
Key Leadership Elements
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Ethical leadership
Communication
Interpersonal skills
Personnel management
Strategies to support leadership development
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Leaders need to understand themselves
and where they are coming from, before
they can understand and influence other
people.
Do they know their ‘moral compass’ and
their ‘true north’ and how others view
them in the workplace?
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Leaders? In what way?
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Can one person or
event really have a
significant influence
on people and on the
systems in which
they work?
Can one person
really make a
difference?
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New Leadership
What works best today?
20th Century leadership had a focus on power and control. You had to
work your way to the top and then have command and authority. There
is now a much stronger focus on relationships and teamwork.
Emotional intelligence is critical to good leadership in today’s world.
Talent is
much
The pyramid hierarchy – it still
exists, but not as much.
recognised and rewarded
faster.
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Meeting the Leadership Challenge
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Your stories and experiences
Sacred Cows
Change Processes
Emotional Intelligence
Resilience
Tenacity
Commitment
Engagement
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I can’t hear what you say, who
you are is too loud.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Understanding influence for leaders at all levels pg 200
Leaders are so visible –
they need to walk the talk and be
consistent, or others will turn off very
quickly.
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Reflection
Spend a few minutes thinking through and discussing
the following:
What happens in your workplace that supports or
gets in the way of:
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Collegiality
Job satisfaction
Professional development
Strategic planning
Strong leadership
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Two metaphors for leadership…
The
Buffalo
Scenario
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As a whole school community you have
developed your long-term strategic
directions, you have developed an agreed
vision and set of values and generally you
are pleased with the way the school is
operating. However a small number of staff
members are actively resisting the direction
the school is moving towards. As a leader
how do you manage this situation?
The Geese
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The Pareto Principle
Do these examples seem to ring true to you?
Personal Values and Balance
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The
Principle
states
approximately
80% of
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complaints
come
from
20% of parents
resources are often tied up in 20% of the project or
20%
of students
cause
80%
of we
rubbish
in the
population.
In the
same
way
can find
80%yard
of our
energy
is devoted
to 20%come
of all from
the work
should
be
80%
of canteen
purchases
20%we
of the
menu
attending to.
20% of your teaching delivers 80% of the learning
80% of behaviour problems involve 20% of the students
• The Pareto Principle applies to our private lives as well.
Where is your energy going? Is there an effective balance
in your family and home life?
• What needs to change in order to bring about change??
Change isn’t easy!
Firstly, you need to be aware of why change is needed.
Then there is the initiation stage, where you set up the
foundation for the change process.
Time to start building!
Time for reflection – take a breath. Is it working? Is
some tweaking necessary?
All finished and looking good? What if there’s a
storm?
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Sacred Cows (or…the way we do things around
here)
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Levels of Change
Changing knowledge can be achieved
reasonably quickly.
Changing individual behaviours takes time
and patience and is far more complex.
More complex still is changing group
behaviours. This is the greatest challenge
in bringing about organisational change for
improvement.
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey,
Simon & Schuster 1992.
Who influenced you?
• Who has had the strongest
influence on you?
• Jot down
– Was their influence positive or
negative?
– Was their influence based on
• who they were?
• how they were?
• what they did?
3 – 2 – 1 Discussion Summary Sheet
Think about the discussion and write down:
Choose three interesting points
Identify two new challenges
What is one unanswered question?
Topics for further development
HOMEWORK
Read the article
“Winning at Change”
by John P. Kotter 1998.
• Find three points that resonated with you.
• Be prepared, in a small group, to share one of
these for three minutes saying why this was
so.
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I've learned that people
will forget what you said,
people will forget
what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou American Poet b 1928
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Jenni-Marie Gorman
Ph: 82721399
[email protected]
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Useful References and
Acknowledgments
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Understanding Influence for Leaders at all Levels
– Management Today Series, Australian Institute of Management. McGraw-Hill Australia 2005
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The Articulate Executive – Learn to Look, Act and Sound Like a Leader
Granville N Toogood. McCraw-Hill 1996
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Fierce Conversations – Achieving Success in Work and in Life, One Conversation at
a Time.
Susan Scott. Piatkus 2002
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The 8th Habit – From Effectiveness to Greatness.
Stephen R. Covey. Free Press 2004
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Leading in a Culture of Change
Michael Fullan. Jossey-Bass 2001
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Mark McCrindle - McCrindle Research
www.mccrindle.com.au
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Thank you DECS South Australian Centre for Leaders
in Education 2005 -2009 - for lots of ideas, slides and activities
And anyone else I may have forgotten!