2. Academic Leadership (Tips on Leading Leaders)
1 min – capture overall concept

3. Common Challenges in Academic Management
High volume of stakeholder’s needs
Business objectives V’s academic objectives
Conflict between departments, ie. Marketing & Academic
Getting staff buy-in for operational change
Getting staff & stakeholders to do what you need, the
way you need it done
Creating a consistent college culture
Finding time to invest in your teams
List my experience
Any others?
Concepts have been useful to me in all these areas

4. Facilitating leadership from your team members1.
Choose Connection 5.
Guide your teams to self-regulate 2.
Develop what is already there
Facilitating
leadership
from your team members
4. Consciously build your culture together 3.
Empower staff toward ownership

5. 1. Choose Connection Every situation, every person, every time
Not humanly possible – when you reflect, go back to that person and acknowledge you were unable to hold your connection with their needs without your own taking over.
Anecdote –?

6. Question your beliefs and behaviours
Know your fears and how you behave when afraid
Active Listening
Empathy
Look to feelings and needs to find win-wins
When in conflict, get closer
Yourself:
What conversations do you dread? Do you hate that moment standing in front of room full of you team resenting their teacher’s meeting? Do you dread that conversation with a teacher about their underperformance? Do you stay awake at night thinking about telling the casual staff member who you know has a sick kid there is no work next week? Or seeing ten students standing outside your door with a badly written petition in their hand...
Try to reframe the opponent as the partner.
Explain Active Listening
Explain Empathy
F & N’s are like bread crumbs

7. Solutions to all leadership problems
hinge on the quality of
your relationships
your communication
and your courage.
Be proactive

8. STOP and INVEST Your strategic priorities and planning Yourself
Yourself – covered
Involve, can seem like work, at first it is, fun creative collaborative work
Use these times to be electric! Facilitate. Hopefully you were a teacher.
One on one’s – time is hard, but so appreciated. I did it with 50 teacher teams
Your one on one communication with your team
Your team meetings

9. 2. Develop what is already there
Introduce the idea of self actualisation

10. ‘People don’t do what you tell them to do,
they only do what they feel engaged with’
Margaret Wheatley
Introduce Margaret Wheatley, born to self-actualise, telling staff the same direction again more passionately.
Really understand your stakeholder. What matters to them? What authentically drives their action? Find a compatible role in your team for their authentic drive. EXAMPLE

11. Story Curiosity Humour Empathy Community
Mafalda example -culture responds to fun, caring, strongly empathetic group, creative appreciation.

12. 3. Empower staff toward ownership

13. Believe in people, support their success
Offer projects that hold meaning
Clear boundaries and intended outcomes
Training wheels
Let go
Check in
Monitor outcomes
Feedback all the way
Eg – If ABILITY English was a person, what are they like?
Keep asking the question ‘who are we?’ in different ways

14. Develop what is already there 3. Empower staff toward ownership 1.
Choose Connection 2.
Develop what is already there 3.
Empower staff toward ownership
4. Consciously build your culture together 5.
Guide your teams to self-regulate

15. 4. Consciously build your culture together

16. Develop an organisational identity together Articulate the identity
Involve all stakeholders
Ensure this identity guides all action
Recruit to that identity
Proactively confront deviation
Eg – If ABILITY English was a person, what are they like?
Keep asking the question ‘who are we?’ in different ways
Know the values – recruit to those values

17. CHAOS ORDER Exercise – order/chaos. Where is your organisation?
Anecdote – Where I try to sustain the organisation, transparency, if not maintained, more penal solution with explanation

18. Exercise – order/chaos. Where is your organisation?
Anecdote – Where I try to sustain the organisation, transparency, if not maintained, more penal solution with explanation

19. teams to self-regulate
5. Guide your
teams to self-regulate
Anecdote – teacher feedback survey

20. Give recognition when the team aligns Confront deviation
Choose connection – curiosity over criticism
Zero tolerance for blame culture
Zero tolerance for ‘us & them’ culture
Build individually and collectively – one on ones, fortnightly meetings, strategy sessions

21. Facilitating leadership from your team members1.
Choose Connection 5.
Guide your teams to self-regulate 2.
Develop what is already there
Facilitating
leadership
from your team members
4. Consciously build your culture together 3.
Empower staff toward ownership

22. Thank you