1. Presented by Ann McMullan
Leading Change in Challenging Times
FETC Workshop January 26, :00 AM to 10:30 AM Hyatt Regency – Bayhill 20 WiFi – WSFETC PW: FETC2017
Presented by Ann McMullan

2. Leading Change in Challenging Times
You will be invited to collaborate online today. Use whatever digital device you brought with you or the one provided in this workshop.
Choose this network: WSFETC PW: FETC2017

3. Listen Think Share Inspire LEAD Leading Change in Challenging Times
Learning Strategies for Today’s Workshop:
Listen
Think
Share Inspire
LEAD
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4. Focus for Today’s Workshop
Leading Change in Challenging Times
Focus for Today’s Workshop
Examine challenges confronting K-12 education today.
Reflect & collaborate on strategies for leading the changes needed to meet today’s challenges.
Review leadership skills that apply to leaders at any age.

5. What’s On Your List? Leading Change in Challenging Times
What is it you want to know before you leave this session today?
Write you requests on Today’s Meet or

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Survey Participants to learn more about their backgrounds.

8. Sometimes the smartest person in the room… is “THE ROOM”!!
Leading Change in Challenging Times
Sometimes the smartest person in the room… is “THE ROOM”!!
Today, collaboration is the key to success.

9. Meet Your Workshop Colleagues
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Meet Your Workshop Colleagues

10. Introductions Leading Change in Challenging Times 5 minutes
Pick a Partner – Preferably someone you don’t know very well.
Find out: Name; Hometown; #of years working in Education; Role
One unusual fact about you that “Inquiring Minds Want to Know”
Introduce each other to the whole group
5 minutes

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Challenges
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Leadership

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Challenges
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Leadership

13. Jot Down Your Thoughts on My Notes
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Challenges
What challenges are you currently facing in your school or school district?
Your Response Method, Your Choice: Answer Question Online at AnswerGarden.com or
Jot Down Your Thoughts on My Notes
Post your challenges online at or

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Challenges
Change
Leadership

16. Jot Down Your Thoughts on My Notes
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What are some changes that you are facing in your school or school district today?
Changes
Your Response Method, Your Choice: Answer Question Online at padlet.com or
Jot Down Your Thoughts on My Notes
Post the changes you are confronting online at or

17. Is Change Itself One Cause of Our Challenges?
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Is Change Itself One Cause of Our Challenges?

18. Leading Change in Challenging Times
How often is “change” the cause of our challenges? Why is “change” so difficult in certain circumstances?
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Your Turn: Share ideas in a discussion at your table. Why is the process of change very difficult at times? Share your thoughts from the perspectives of either 1) a person who leads change or 2) a person who has to implement changes.

19. Is Change Itself Our Biggest Challenge Today?
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Is Change Itself Our Biggest Challenge Today?

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“The world is not just rapidly changing,” adds Dov Seidman, “it is being dramatically reshaped – it is starting to operate differently” in many realms all at once. “And this reshaping is happening faster than we have yet been able to reshape ourselves, our leadership, our institutions, our societies, and our ethical choices.”
Dov Seidman – CEO of LRN
Thank you for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations By Thomas Friedman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, © 2016

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“Indeed, there is a mismatch between the change in the pace of change and our ability to develop the learning systems, training systems, management systems, social safety nets, and government regulations that would enable citizens to get the most out of these accelerations and cushion their worst impacts. This mismatch, as we will see, is at the center of much of the turmoil roiling politics and society in both developed and developing countries today. It now constitutes probably the most important governance challenge across the globe.”
Thank you for Being Late: An Optimist’s Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations By Thomas Friedman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, © 2016

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Do you see evidence of a “mismatch between the change in the pace of change and our ability to develop the …systems, …that would enable citizens to get the most out of these accelerations and cushion their worst impacts.”
Table Talk

23. Your Task Lead the Change Leading Change in Challenging Times Changes
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Lead the Change

24. Leading Change… Leading Change in Challenging Times Changes

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Quick Table Talks – 5 to 10 Minutes 1. Choose One or Two of These Topics 2 . Discuss how will you implement this concept in leading change at your school:
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Change What Needs Changing…Not What’s Easy
Focus on Strengths
It All Starts with Belief
Let Your Actions Speak
Celebrate Success
Measure Results
Set the Stage for Innovation
Stand With Them, Not Above Them
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Challenges
Change

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One of the most critical requirements for leading change in challenging times is…
VISIONARY
LEADERSHIP

29. Having points in all directions is like having no point at all.
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Visionary Leadership Requires A Common Vision
Leadership
Having points in all directions
is like having no point at all.

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Visionary Leadership Especially for Leading Change Requires A Common Vision

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Process
People
CHANGE
Leadership

33. PROCESS Leading Change in Challenging Times
Many recognized authorities on leading change have cited elements that must be in place in order for the change process to flow successfully.
Leadership
PROCESS
Some of those required elements include:
A well articulated clear vision.
A thorough understanding – by all stakeholders - of the “why, the reasons for making the change.
Effective motivators that will drive those who need to implement the change to take the appropriate actions.
Essential pre-requisite skills by all involved to implement the changes as envisioned.
A well-defined, dynamic action plan that includes target dates, persons responsible…and flexibility to make changes to the plan when needed.

34. PROCESS Leading Change in Challenging Times
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What happens if any one of the 5 elements is missing?
PROCESS
Some of those required elements include:
A well articulated clear vision.
A thorough understanding – by all stakeholders - of the “why, the reasons for making the change.
Effective motivators that will drive those who need to implement the change to take the appropriate actions.
Essential pre-requisite skills by all involved to implement the changes as envisioned.
A well-defined, dynamic action plan that includes target dates, persons responsible…and flexibility to make changes to the plan when needed.

35. Critical Steps for Leading Change
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Critical Steps for Leading Change
PROCESS
Define your goals
Engage your stakeholders
Develop a shared vision and mission
Empower & support other district leaders
Build collective capacity
Assess your readiness

36. What word seems to be missing?
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PEOPLE
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What word seems to be missing?

37. When do you need a leader and when do you need a good manager?
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PEOPLE
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When do you need a leader and when do you need a good manager?
LEAD
MANAGE n

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39. Life Lessons in Leadership
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Life Lessons in Leadership

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Life Lessons in Leadership: The Way of the Wallaby For Leaders Ages 8 to 88
By Ann McMullan & Michael Barrett

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In the fast changing, hyper connected world of the 21st century, it is a given that at some point in your life the opportunity or responsibility of leading others will fall on your shoulders.

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Serving as a leader can start at an early age.
Leadership
Oldest Sibling
Student Leader

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Adults may serve as leaders in a variety of life roles.
Teacher
Parent

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Serving as a leader happens in many professional roles, with many different titles.
Leadership

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1) What leadership roles have you experienced in your youth and/or non-professional life?
2) When have you been asked to take on a leadership role in your professional life?

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It does not matter how you came to be a leader, nor who you are leading. There are basic leadership skills that apply in every leadership scenario.
SERVANT LEADERSHIP The ideas about leadership, as discussed in the book, “Life Lessons in Leadership: The Way of the Wallaby” always fall under the concept of “servant leadership”. True leaders – in any capacity – strive to make those around them successful and in so doing, they “serve”.

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Listen
Learn
Love
Leverage
Luck
Leadership
It does not matter how you came to be a leader, nor who you are leading. There are basic leadership skills that apply in every leadership scenario.
LEAD

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Leadership
It does not matter how you came to be a leader, nor who you are leading. There are basic leadership skills that apply in every leadership scenario.

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“The ability to truly listen – not simply to hear – is a leader’s most important skill. It is through active, engaged listening that a leader begins to understand the realities of what is truly going on with both the people and processes she is leading. Listening has to be followed by appropriate action in order for the leader to maintain legitimacy with others.”
Life Lessons in Leadership: The Way of the Wallaby
It does not matter how you came to be a leader, nor who you are leading. There are basic leadership skills that apply in every leadership scenario.

50. Leading Change in Challenging Times
Leadership
It does not matter how you came to be a leader, nor who you are leading. There are basic leadership skills that apply in every leadership scenario.
In the speech he planned to give in Dallas in November, 1963 President John F Kennedy wrote, “…leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”

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It does not matter how you came to be a leader, nor who you are leading. There are basic leadership skills that apply in every leadership scenario.
Kathy Hurley’s Best Advice EVER!
Network, even when you don’t have to.
Jobs change, people don’t. Do not burn bridges.
Always err on the side of generosity.

52. LEAD Leading Change in Challenging Times Listen Learn Love Leverage
Luck
LEAD
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GOAL OF THE BOOK: Present 5 leadership skill lessons in an entertaining and engaging format so that they are easy to remember. Count them off using five fingers on one hand.

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Mnemonic Action for Leadership Strategies
Stand Up
If You Are Right-Handed, Raise Your Right Hand If You Are Left-Handed, Raise Your Left Hand
Make a Fist
When Told to Do So - Open One Finger at a Time, Starting with Your Thumb
REPEAT THE WORDS I SAY

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Love
Leadership
Learn
Luck
Leverage
Listen

55. “THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP”
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Leadership
With your hand open and up,
reach over and pat your neighbor on the back and say…
“THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP”

56. Leading Change in Challenging Times
Life Lessons in Leadership: The Way of the Wallaby For Leaders Ages 8 to 88
By Ann McMullan & Michael Barrett

57. What are YOUR next steps?
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What are YOUR next steps?
Record Your Thoughts at Today’s Meet: or

58. Some final thoughts from school leaders on leading change…
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Some final thoughts from school leaders on leading change…
Leadership

59. Please Join Me This Afternoon
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Leadership
Please Join Me This Afternoon
Future Ready Schools: Creating Your Vision, Crafting Your Plan Concurrent Session (C504) Thursday, January 26 – 3:20 PM to 4:00 PM Orange County Convention Center – South 330E

60. Thank you for your LEADERSHIP
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Thank you for your LEADERSHIP
Please feel free to contact me if I can be of help.
Ann McMullan

61. Presented by Ann McMullan
Leading Change in Challenging Times
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FETC Workshop #W007 Leading Change in Challenging TImes January 26, :00 AM to 10:30 AM Hyatt Regency – Bayhill 20
Presented by Ann McMullan