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A look at 10 helpful hints to working in educational leadership. Many of the 'hints' can be used for anyone in manage.
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Tools to Leadership
Tools to Leadership
Leadership in education is no different than leadership in business... except that it is completely different.
Tools to Leadership
The more authority a leader is willing to share, the more influential he or she becomes.
Tools to Leadership
Effective leaders awaken the leader within each member of the organization.
Tools to Leadership
The primary job of the leader is to prepare those who work for her or him for their next position.
Tools to Leadership
Despite a succession of ever-increasing leadership responsibilities, I am still a teach; only my students have
changed – from children, to high school students, to teachers, to principals, and finally to superintendents and network leaders.
Tools to Leadership
The model for adult learning must parallel the model of student learning, and always does. That is, the way you work with and
develop teachers invariably finds its way into classroom practice.
Tools to Leadership
Conventional wisdom is that teachers talk and learners listen. However, the most effective teaching and leading can come from
listening; and when the learner is active and talking, she or he learns more and retains it.
Tools to Leadership
All organizations attract the quality of leadership they are designed to attract.
Tools to Leadership
As Mas DePree advised in his book “Leadership Is an Art,” good leaders absorb pain, they don‟t inflict it.
Tools to Leadership
Leadership is not the highest level of moral development or authority. At times, leaders may find it necessary to balance the
needs of an individual with the greater good of the organization. Such decisions must be made thoughtfully, and with humility.
Tools to Leadership
There is no textbook, book, law, regulation, policy, procedure, code of conduct, or tool that can effectively know your
motivation for leadership. Only you can provide that knowledge.
Tools to Leadership What questions do you have?
Thank you. Daniel Boyer, BA, QMed, CDTP
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