Christy Chambers, EdD CEC President

 Teachers  Administrators  Gen  Related Services Support Personnel  Parents  Students  Policy Makers  Others

 Defining leadership  Identifying who can be a leader  Remembering who has influenced us  Considering the value of relationships  Examining Head, Heart and Hands theory

 Have you thought about this?  How good are you at this?

KnowledgeRespect Action orientedConfidence Heart Has followers CommunicationVisionary InfluenceManager SupportiveTransformational ListenerFacilitator AccessibleShares leadership HumorEncourager Takes risksRole Model Gets things doneand more……….

Is everyone on your team a leader? Should everyone be a leader? Can everyone become a leader? Why or why not???

Can we lead others before we are leaders in our own lives?

Someone influenced, mentored, taught & showed us the way. How do we influence, mentor & teach others to find their paths? How do we remain the mentor, the teacher in times of cardiac arrest?

Conscious Choice: To care or not to care? Is the old cliché is true? "People don't care how much you know until they know how much you _____."

Unconditional love, support and acceptance: Accepting children Accepting adults

SPIRIT Beliefs FeelingsBehaviors

Intellectual Mind Emotional Mind Spirited/Inspired Mind Using Spirit to Lead Successfully Dr. Sandy Gluckman

We will learn lessons. There are no mistakes, only lessons. A lesson is repeated until learned. Learning lessons does not end. There is no better place than here. What we make of our life is up to us. Our answers lie inside of us. Above all, respect birds for flying and fish for swimming.

What Job descriptions, Contracts How Relationships, Head, Heart & Hands

Leading with Heart Discovering our leadership voice to inspire and commit people to action Leadership is not a role we play – It is who we are. Relationships determine ability to connect to the people that we motivate

Put yourself in __shoes. Do you know what makes them feel good? after hours fitness class flexible schedule-within reason in-house shoulder or foot massages someone who listens without judgment Employees may work for the compensation, but they stay because of the supervisor and environment.

Head+Heart = ? Heart+Hands = ? Hands+Head = ? Head + Heart + Hands = Sustained Success

“You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.”

When team members collide Development trumps discipline Problem-solving scenarios Multiple perspectives What’s working for you

 2 Administrators  Compromised effectiveness  Affecting students and staff  Must work together What can you do? What should you do?

An activity for teams: Create scenarios and identify: ◦ the players ◦ the conflict ◦ alternative solutions from multiple perspectives

 Teachers  Paraprofessionals  Administrators Key to an effective learning experience: -solutions from multiple perspectives

Doing things right versus doing the right things. How do we use our team meetings? nuts and bolts? development? ? Do we model, enable, inspire, challenge, and encourage the heart?

Doing things right versus doing the right things. How do we use team meetings? Do we model, enable, inspire, challenge, and encourage?

Gain trust and respect first Walk the talk And they will come………

Have the courage to acknowledge your own humanness

Go to basics-teach your team how to put spirit in the driver’s seat & ego in the passenger’s seat. Whether spirit or ego is in the driver’s seat can depend upon how safe we feel.

A flame goes out when: We rely on the power of past performance We stay within the comfort zone We will not embrace the present moment Burn-out :when passion for a subject and compassion for a person is out of balance

Confront or Condone If someone isn’t playing by the rules and we don’t confront it, we condone it. If something isn’t going well, address it. Our actions affect climate and credibility, health and stress. It’s all in the HOW.

(Re)defining Leadership: Think, Pair, Share, Follow Up  Do you have the same definition?  Has anything resonated with you?  Any new ideas? “The manager may get things done right. The leader with heart does the right thing for the right reasons.” Chambers, 2008 Beyond the Box, LLC

 Bibliography: recommended reading  Leadership Practices Inventory  Websites  Christy’s Kitchen  Leading with Heart Workbook

Doing things right versus doing the right things. How do we use team meetings? Do we model, enable, inspire, challenge, and encourage?

head knowledge skills hands doer followers heart caring collaborator

Christy Chambers, Ed.D. Beyond the Box, LLC (O) (F)