I've learned so much so far in just the few short weeks. I really read a lot about self-leadership and its affects on your developement. From our reading, Mastering Self-Leadership, I picked up this quote.
“I think the key to self-leadership is being able to get rid of the feeling of helplessness in everything we do.” This quote I would love to make into a poster and hang it everywhere. Today, I came to work feeling like I can conquer this day because I spent so much time getting ahead. This feeling of a loss of helplessness is exactly what I want to get from this class. I want to be able to lead myself first and then bring others behind me.
I'm ready for the journey!
There are many ways to approach leading. One could focus on their team member's weakenesses. In this option the leader may choose to concentrate on how to enhance these weaknesses in their skills. Another approach would be to focus on a person's stregnths. According to Tom Rath, this technique is more efficient and will produce better results. This is for sure a shift in thinking. For many of us, we are used to having our weaknesses being pointed out and may even practice this thought in our own experiences with leading. Focusing on a person's stregnth causes the person to be more confident in their own abilities and leads to depending on other members' skills in the team. This will increase the team's effectiveness and result in better results.
ReplyDeleteIn our quest to find the perfect ingredients for a successful leader, we have explored micro and macro leadership. In leadership, we have a definite chain of command. Hopefully, there is a organized balance of power, where each entity of the organization is a part of the full team. Stakeholders in a school is everybody, from students, parents, teachers, and administration. You can't have one without the other. Honestly, the student could be the most important. If a student isn't on board to learn then learning could be lost forever.
ReplyDeleteI believe this class has has given us many tools thus far for personal leadership. I think at first when we start to teach we may feel a bit helpless, but like anything, "Practice makes perfect!"
ReplyDeletePractice does make perfect! It would be nice if the rules didn't change so much.
DeleteA transformational leader leads with less emphasism on structure and more emphasis on the cultural aspect of the organization. I would lead with more a transformational style. I believe that teachers and the organization of school needs to be lead by how the cultural of the school. Teachers need to teach because they believe in the students not because they are made to teach. When you have a environment where teachers have more control to provide structure based on their own motives instead of how it is expected or directed from administration.
ReplyDeleteThis style will benefit my school because teachers will feel comfortable to teach and that their efforts will be rewarded with progress.
In my building, distributive leadership is definitely used for capacity building. There are many examples of capacity building for our school. So, the principal has given different jobs to different people. As a team, our school is functioning well. For example, the administration seems to be responsible for different aspects of our building. One principal is directly responsible for testing while another is responsible for evaulating teachers. We have a Dean who is responsible for students and their behavior. Just like a person needs all parts of the body in order to be effective, a school needs different people to be responsible for different aspects of the body to be effective.
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