1. Unlocking the secrets of how extraordinary leaders
Inspiring Leader
Unlocking the secrets of how extraordinary leaders
MOTIVATE
John Zenger
Joseph Folkman
Scott Edinger

2. Establishing and Managing a Great Expectations Leadership Team
What are the initial steps for organizing?
Who will serve on the GE Team?
What are Team Members’ responsibilities?
How often do GE Team Members meet as a team?
How often does the GE Team communicate with new or all staff members?
What are the benefits of establishing a leadership team?

3. Leadership is based on a spiritual quality, the power to inspire others to follow.
Vince Lombardi

4. Creates the following outcomes:
The Inspiring Leader
Creates the following outcomes:
1. New behaviors and outcomes
2. New attitudes and emotions, such as:
Confidence
Optimism and hope
Initiative
Responsibility
Enthusiasm
Resilience

5. The Inspirational Leader = a leader who can stimulate others to achieve higher levels of performance

6. How to Organize and Manage a Great Expectations Site Leadership Team (Teacher Leader)
Speak with the principal
Discuss benefits/options with principal
Invite the Great Expectations Instructional Coach to assist (optional)

7. Who Serves?
Those persons who have the ability as a leader to inspire those about them.
This becomes the closest to being that all powerful solution.

8. Team Members’ Attributes
The following three attributes are the cornerstone of what it takes to inspire and motivate others.
Role Model
Change Champion
Initiator

9. The most effective leaders were excellent role models.
Simply put, they exemplified what the organization stood for and how it wanted people to behave.

10. How Leaders Become Better Role Models
Lead through example
Maximize exposure
Selectively model behaviors that need to be emphasized in the organization
Seek feedback regarding inconsistencies between a leader’s behavior and the espoused values of the organization

11. Change Champion Persuasion is at the heart of the matter
It’s the results of the change that matter
Recognize those that made it happen and they will do it again

12. The following six leadership behaviors are the specific behaviors it takes to inspire and motivate others. The more of these six behaviors a leader demonstrates, the more their ability to inspire and motivate.
Setting stretch goals
Creating vision and direction
Communicating powerfully
Developing people
Being collaborative and a good team player
Fostering innovation

13. Creating Vision & Direction
The leaders orchestrate a process that creates a concise, compelling, and clear vision for the organization.
GE Team Members introduce themselves to all staff members
GE Team shares the vision and/or site status with staff
GE Team meets with new staff members to discuss the team’s role

14. Strategies Cont’d
This vision combines a strong statement of the guiding principles that shape the organization
with a vivid picture of what it aspires to be in
in the next few years.
GE Team surveys the staff for implementation
needs
GE Team addresses staff needs

15. Strategies Cont’d
Meet with the staff to discuss online resources
Practices, Rationale, Life Principles, Eight
Expectations and other available resources
Great Expectations Connect

16. Strategies Cont’d
3. With this vision clearly stated, a clear line of sight
can now be established between the role of
GE Team Leaders and the individual’s understanding
of Best Practices implementation and site goals.
Strategies:
Create a GE Boot Camp at the beginning of the year or
schedule one per semester (if needed)
Video students demonstrating the seventeen practices to share at staff meetings, with an individual team member or with grade level teams/PLC

17. Strategies Cont’d
Share GEMS weekly (Great Expectations Motivational Strategies)
Post encouraging quotes for staff members
Send complimentary notes
Send notes to say ‘thank you’
Celebrate

18. Initiator
Right or wrong, well executed or not, with or without an effectively managed team, nothing says leader like being the initiator.
The energy and driving force behind any movement requires a catalyst, and in the role of initiator, a leader has the responsibility to “get the ball rolling.”

19. Initiator Decisiveness (increase) Accountability (step up)
3. Risk (calculated)
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20. Benefits of Establishing and Managing a GE Leadership Team
This clarity of direction also resolves questions about what is trivial and what is titanic.
All systems and new initiatives can now be brought into alignment around the vision.
Effective strategies and optimum tactics flow more easily from this clearer vision for the organization.

21. If people are coming to work excited,
If they’re making mistakes freely and fearlessly,
If they’re having fun,
If they’re concentrating on doing things
Then somewhere you have a leader.
Robert Townsend

22. Betty Flurry Great Expectations Instructional Coach