Leadership and Management

Leadership The art of motivating group of people eto act towards achieving a common goal.

Leadership Qualities To lead involves influencing others; Where there are leaders, there are followers; Leaders seem to come to the fore when there is a crisis or special problem, that is when an innovative response is needed; Leaders are people who have a clear idea of what they want to achieve and why.

Essential objectives of leadership helping the organization set a defensible set of directions Influencing members to move in those directions

Basics of successful leadership Setting directions Identifying and articulating a vision Fostering the acceptance of group goals Creating high performance expectations Monitoring organizational performance Promoting effective communication throughout the organization Charting a clear course that everyone understands, establishing high expectations and using data to track progress and performance Providing teachers and others with the necessary support and training to succeed. Ensuring that the entire range of conditions and incentives in districts and schools fully support rather than inhibits teaching and learning. Reference: Leithwood, K. et al. How Leadership influences student learning. CAREI Executive Summary. 2017

Basics of successful leadership Developing people Offering intellectual stimulation Providing individualized support Providing appropriate models of best practice and beliefs considered fundamental to the organization Making the organization work Strengthening organizational culture Modifying organizational structures Building collaborative processes Charting a clear course that everyone understands, establishing high expectations and using data to track progress and performance Providing teachers and others with the necessary support and training to succeed. Ensuring that the entire range of conditions and incentives in districts and schools fully support rather than inhibits teaching and learning. Reference: Leithwood, K. et al. How Leadership influences student learning. CAREI Executive Summary. 2017

Leadership labels Transformational leadership Participative leadership Democratic leadership Strategic leadership Instructional leadership Student-centered leadership Encourages a focus on improving the classroom practices of teachers as the direction for the school Focuses on conditions that may need to be changed if the organization is to improve. The change should come from within. Concerned with how decisions are made about priorities and how to pursue them.

Beyond the basics of successful leadership Leadership effects are usually largest where and when they are needed most. Individual leaders actually behave differently (and productively) depending on the circumstances they are facing and the people with whom they are working We need to develop leaders with large repertoires of practices and capacity to chose from the repertoire as needed, not leaders trained in the delivery of one “ideal” set of practices.

Balanced leadership Effective leadership means more than simply knowing what to do – it’s knowing when, how and why to do it. Effective leaders understand how to balance pushing for change while at the same time, protecting aspects of culture, values and norms worth preserving. Reference: Waters, T; Marzano, R.J., McNulty, Bryan. Balanced Leadership: What 30 years of research Tells us about the effects of Leadership on student achievement. A Working Paper, 2003

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