Leading with Heart in Times of Cardiac

ArrestChristy Chambers, EdD

CEC President

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

Who’s here?

Defining leadership

Identifying who can be a leader

Remembering who has influenced us

Considering the value of relationships

Examining Head, Heart and Hands theory

Leading with Heart in Times of Cardiac Arrest

Have you thought about this?

How good are you at this?

Approach

How do you define leadership?

Knowledge RespectAction oriented ConfidenceHeart Has followersCommunicationVisionaryInfluence ManagerSupportive TransformationalListener FacilitatorAccessible Shares leadershipHumor EncouragerTakes risks Role ModelGets things done and more……….

How do you define leadership?

Is everyone on your team a leader?

Should everyone be a leader?

Can everyone become a leader?

Why or why not???

Can everyone lead?

Johnny the Bagger

Can we lead others before we are leaders in our own

lives?

Can/Should Everyone Be a Leader?

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?

I am who taught me

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 _____."

Caring

Unconditional love, support and acceptance:

Accepting children Accepting adults

Caring

SPIRIT

Beliefs

Feelings

Behaviors

Spirit: A Vital Ingredient

Intellectual Mind

Emotional Mind

Spirited/Inspired Mind

Using Spirit to Lead SuccessfullyDr. Sandy Gluckman

IQ v EQ v SQ

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.

Rules for Being Human

WhatJob descriptions, Contracts

How Relationships, Head, Heart &

Hands

Relationships

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 classflexible schedule-within reasonin-house shoulder or foot massagessomeone who listens without judgment

Employees may work for the compensation, but they stay because of the supervisor and environment.

Think with Your Heart

Head+Heart = ?Heart+Hands = ?Hands+Head = ?

Head + Heart + Hands = Sustained Success

Head, Heart and Hands

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

Aim for the Heart: by Tom Mathews

When team members collide

Development trumps discipline

Problem-solving scenarios

Multiple perspectives

What’s working for you

Increasing the Leadership Quotient of Your Teams

2 Administrators Compromised effectiveness Affecting students and staff Must work together

What can you do? What should you do?

Team Relationship Scenario:When team members collide

An activity for teams:Create scenarios and identify:

◦the players◦the conflict◦alternative solutions from multiple perspectives

Problem Solving Scenarios

TeachersParaprofessionalsAdministrators

Key to an effective learning experience:

-solutions from multiple perspectives

Problem Solving Scenarios

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?

Recipes for Heart Healthy Teams

Doing things right versus doing the right things.

How do we use team meetings?

Do we model, enable, inspire, challenge, and encourage?

Investing in Development

Gain trust and respect firstWalk the talkAnd they will come………

New Team Leaders Beware:

Build Trust

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.

Spirit-A Core Leadership Competence

A flame goes out when:

We rely on the power of past performanceWe stay within the comfort zoneWe will not embrace the present moment

Burn-out :when passion for a subject and compassion for a person is out of balance

What Hurts Motivation?

Confront or CondoneIf 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.

The Heart of the Matter

“By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever

harmed his stomach.”

Winston Churchill

(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

Leading with Head, Heart and Hands: Tools and Resources

Doing things right versus doing the right things.

How do we use team meetings?

Do we model, enable, inspire, challenge, and encourage?

Investing in Development

head• knowledge• skills

hands• doer• followers

heart• caring• collaborator

Being the best we can be!

Christy Chambers, Ed.D.Beyond the Box, LLC

Beyondthebox.christy@gmail.com815-363-9329 (O)815-425-2758 (F)

www.leaderswithheart.com

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