Transformational Leadership: influence that animates authority

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Transformational Leadershipinfluence that
animates authority

• Bruce Beairsto
• School District No. 38 (Richmond)
• bbeairsto_at_richmond.sd38.bc.ca http//public.sd38.b
  c.ca/bbeairsto/

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Two Ways To Get Things Done
Foresight Intelligence IQ EQ Creativity Initiativ
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Discussion
How do authority and influence interact in the
classroom, in the staffroom, in the district,
and in society?
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Leadership is
an act of influence involving reciprocal
relationships through which members of an
organization or community construct common
meanings, build capacity and thus enhance their
ability to achieve shared goals.
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Leadership is
an act of influence involving reciprocal
relationships through which members of an
organization or community construct common
meanings, build capacity and thus enhance their
ability to achieve shared goals.
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Leadership is
an act of influence involving reciprocal
relationships through which members of an
organization or community construct common
meanings, build capacity and thus enhance their
ability to achieve shared goals.
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Leadership is
an act of influence involving reciprocal
relationships through which members of an
organization or community construct common
meanings, build capacity and thus enhance their
ability to achieve shared goals.
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Leadership is
an act of influence involving reciprocal
relationships through which members of an
organization or community construct common
meanings, build capacity and thus enhance their
ability to achieve shared goals.
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Leadership is
an act of influence involving reciprocal
relationships through which members of an
organization or community construct common
meanings, build capacity and thus enhance their
ability to achieve shared goals.
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Leadership is
an act of influence involving reciprocal
relationships through which members of an
organization or community construct common
meanings, build capacity and thus enhance their
ability to achieve shared goals.
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Discussion
Not the heroic archetype
How is this definition of leadership similar to
and different from others that you have
heard? What would leadership conceived in this
way look like and sound like in practice?
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Pursuing Your Vision
Public Education has a strong moral purpose but
is challenged by complexity, pluralism and
ambiguity. Turning idealized visions into
practical actions requires living with endemic
dilemmas and coping with practical constraints.
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Discussion
Think about improving literacy. What are some of
the complexities, differing points of view and
ambiguities that arise? What can be addressed
through management/authority? What can be
addressed through leadership/influence?
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Leadership is Distributed
Management is centralized. Leadership is widely
distributed. Managers should always be
leaders, but many leaders are not managers. Some
leadership is visible, but much is not.
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Developing Leadership
One way to develop leadership is to develop
leaders. Another is to develop culture. The two
approaches are complementary.
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Developing Leaders
Leadership is a way of being based on a way of
thinking - a worldview enacted. Becoming a leader
involves not merely acquiring skills, but also a
personal transformation of ones worldview.
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Growth and Development
Seek a Pluralistic Worldview
Internalize Mental Model
Assess Results
Adopt New Behaviour
Growth through Training
Informational Learning
Development through Education
Transformational Learning
Psychic Development through Maturation
Self-Transformational Learning
Graphic incorporates ideas from Argyris, Mezirow
and Kegan
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Dimensions of Deep Learning

• Knowledge
• Skills
• Concepts (Mental Models)
• Assumptions
• Beliefs

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Promoters of Deep Learning

• Perceived safety
• Intrinsic motivation
• Desire to understand (not merely know or do)
• Perceived relevance
• Active engagement, making connections
• Sustained attention (especially using multiple
  contexts)
• Learning in a supportive group
• Group norms of curiosity and thoughtfulness

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Discussion
In addition to developing some specific people as
leaders, what can you do to develop a culture of
leadership in which people encourage and support
each other to become more committed and capable?
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Learning Your Own Leadership
Structure your relationship networks carefully to
help you become who you want to be to reinforce
desired values and behaviours, to learn by
observing others whose leadership you admire and
to dwell with important questions. Leadership is
learned, and not by accident.