Recipes for Successful Leaders

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Recipes for Successful Leaders

• ED 7304
• Fall Semester

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ED 7304 Class 2004 Fall Semester Delores
Campbell Becky Farrer Lourdes Henry Cheryl
Hoobler Ruben Carrillo Robert Gomez Michael
Hinesly Zana Moore Alex Ochoa Wayne Squires Dan
Webb Lana Seargeant Joshua Tovar
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Recipe for Discipline

• For discipline to be a successful and useful tool
  in public schools, administrators must be versed
  in their districts discipline policy.
• The policy should reflect the community culture
• School board
• School administrators
• Teachers
• Community
• Serves the needs of the local education community
  and is legal

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Discipline

• Who adopts a student code of conduct?
• Chapter 37 of Texas Education Code
• The local board of Trustees
• Recommendation of the district-level of committee

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Ingredients of Discipline

• What should be included in the plan?
• Specifications for circumstances leading to
  removal from school
• Authorization to transfer student to alternative
  education program
• Conditions for which student might be suspended

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Ingredients cont.

• Guidelines specifying the length of time a
  student may be suspended
• Guidelines for punishment of children with
  disabilities
• Guidelines for notifying students parents or
  guardians of violations

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Recipe for Diversity

• Diversity occurs when a company hires people who
  have a broad range of the following
• Backgrounds
• Characteristics
• Qualities

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Ingredients for Diversity

• Respect for differences
• Demonstrate commitment to community relationships
• Accommodation for physical and developmental
  abilities
• Power sharing
• Tolerance of differences
• Focus on innovation and creativity
• Collaborative conflict resolution process
• Diversity education and training

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Application of Diversity

• Begin by having genuine respect for differences
• Commit to improve relationships
• Take actions to accommodate differences
• Be prepared to share the power
• Practice tolerance with each other this will
  bring innovation and creativity
• Conflicts will arise

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Application of Diversity cont.

• If conflicts arise practice conflict resolutions
• When in doubt, add education and training

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Recipe for Communication

• A leader must have the ability to anticipate,
  understand, and respond efficiently
• Communication must flow between administrator,
  staff, and the community

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Ingredients for Communication

• Honesty
• Genuine Concern
• Flexibility
• Openness

• Poise
• Education
• Sympathy
• Multicultural understanding
• Extrovert

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Application of Communication (Examples or
Suggestions)

• Use e-mail to communicate to employees and staff
• Select appropriate department level coordinators
• Employee and staff meetings need to occur at
  least once a month (PTA/PTO and board meetings)
• Maintain good rapport with community through
  newsletters

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Tips for Effective Communication

• Watch your language (be careful not to offend)
• Follow through (do what you say you will do)
• Be truthful
• Be an active listener
• Manage conflict
• Respond dont react

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Tips for Communication, cont.

• Give feedback
• Invite participation
• Keep your team up-to-date
• Connect personally with employees

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Recipe for Staff Development

• Staff development is high-quality learning
• Ingredients
• Identifying needs and characteristics of
  participant learners
• Identifying program characteristics of purpose,
  structure, content, process, and follow-up
• Identifying organizational characteristics that
  contribute to effective staff development

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Application of Staff Development

• Information transferparticipants receive
  information about new approaches, techniques, or
  requirements
• Skill acquisitionwhen participants are taught a
  particular way to do something
• Behavior changewhen new information and/or
  skills are taught with expectations that
  participants will apply the new learning and
  change their behaviors

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Recipe for Mentoring

• Mentoring is a tool that organizations can use to
  nurture and grow their people
• Mentees observe, question, and explore while
  mentors demonstrate, explain, and model

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Ingredients for Mentoring

• Mentor who is motivated, willing to invest time
  and energy, and has excellent communication
  skills
• Mentee who is committed to expanding his/her
  capabilities, receptive to new ways of learning,
  and trying new ideas
• An environment conducive to the mentor/ mentee
  relationship

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Application for Mentoring

• Orientation time used to get to know each
  other, build trust, and develop expectations
• This stage will lay the foundation for a strong
  and beneficial relationship

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Application for Mentoring cont.

• Cultivation the most rewarding time for both
  mentor and mentee
• Mutual trust has developed giving the mentee
  confidence to challenge the mentors ideas and
  visa versa

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Mentoring cont.

• Separation the relationship begins to draw apart
  after a year or two
• The mentor, at this stage, should step back from
  the formal relationship and discuss with the
  mentee how they wish to continue their
  relationship

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Mentoring cont.

• Refining the relationship at this point both
  parties can regard one another as equals
• They continue to have some form of interaction,
  although it is now on a more casual basis

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Pitfalls

• Mismatch between mentor and mentee
• When one or both members feel uneasy with the
  other
• Unrealistic expectations
• Mentee expects or demands too much from mentor
• Expectations need to be clearly defined from the
  beginning
• Confidentiality breaches
• Mentor must be trustworthy and able to keep
  confidence

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Benefits of Mentoring Relationship

• For Mentor
• Increased motivation
• Challenge
• New insights and perspectives
• An opportunity for self-development
• Build self-esteem and job satisfaction
• Opportunity to positively influence next
  generation
• Peer recognition
• Opportunity to improve communication

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Benefits of Mentoring cont.

• For Mentee
• A non-threatening learning opportunity
• Improved self-confidence
• Developing business expertise and technical
  knowledge
• Support and reassurance

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Recipe for Morale

• The general level of confidence and optimism felt
  by a person, or group of people, especially as it
  affects discipline and willingness
• Everybody needs to feel like somebody.Anonymous
  
• There is no limit to what can be accomplished if
  it doesnt matter who gets the credit.Ralph
  Waldo Emerson

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Ingredients for Morale

• Ingredients
• Motivation
• Communication
• Trust
• Cheerleading
• Integrity
• Praise
• Culture of partnership

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Application of Morale

• Combine the above ingredients throughout the
  entire building
• Liberally spread throughout the hallways
• Add more of any ingredients as needed

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Recipe for Motivation

• Motivation is giving desire or incentive to work
  and do your best
• Two types of motivators
• Intrinsic motivators internal rewards
• Extrinsic motivators tangible rewards

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Ingredients for Motivation

• Ingredients
• Positive attitude
• Recognition for good work
• Notes of thanks
• Small tokens of appreciation
• Humor and appropriate play
• Positive feedback and verbal praise

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Motivation cont.

• An effective leader mixes all these ingredients
  together to create a positive, happy, and fun
  work environment
• Ingredients can be adjusted as needed to keep a
  good balance

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Recipe for Leadership

• Showing others the direction to follow
• Getting somewhere first and setting an example
• Believing in something other than self and work
  as a member of a team

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Recipe for Leadership cont.

• Involves hard work, and leaders must stick to
  promises made
• Have focus and assist in establishing clear goals
• Goals must remain at the forefront of all
  operations
• Be willing to actively challenge the status quo
• Inspire and lead others to new and challenging
  innovations
• Adapt a behavior that adjusts to the needs of the
  current situation, yet be comfortable with
  dissent

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Ingredients for Leadership

• Trust
• Patience
• Flexibility
• Ability to live with ambiguity
• Self-mastery
• Stewardship
• Visioning
• Persuasive communication
• Responding with understanding

• Empowerment
• Empathetic listening
• Open communication
• Guidance
• Excitement
• Reflection
• Discipline
• Service
• Willingness to ask for help
• Encouragement
• Channeling of action

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Application of Leadership

• The most important aspect of this recipe is to
  measure what really counts
• Be a coach not a dictator
• Explain the purpose and importance of what you
  are trying to teach, and explain the process to
  be used
• Show others how it is done

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Application of Leadership cont.

• Watch carefully as the person practices the
  process, and provide immediate and specific
  feedback
• Always express confidence in the persons ability
  to be successful at the task, and agree on
  follow-up actions

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Leadership

• Take all ingredients and adjust as needed
• Allow people to learn from successes rather than
  from failures
• People need direction, knowledge, skills,
  resources, and support
• It is hard to preach people into changing their
  behavior
• Work to develop confidence

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Leadership cont.

• Remember that changing behavior takes time
• There is absolutely no substitute for practice
  with feedback
• Leadership involves allowing others to practice
• Watching someone else practice does not do it

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Conclusion of Leadership

• If the ingredients are not the right consistency,
  do not be afraid to offer a guiding hand and open
  doors to clear the way.
• Help assess performance to enhance ability.
• Do not control too much, but do not abandon that
  control.
• Leadership involves being able to make decisions
  that others are not able to make.

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The Ten Commandments of a Good Leader

• Believe in something other than yourself
• Listen to others
• Work in a team never be a loner
• Be considerate of a different opinion
• Stand for what you believe even when criticized
• Be a peacemaker above all
• Be patient with other people, even though they do
  not see things your way
• Stick to the promises you make
• Work hard as a leader
• Most important. Thank people for what they do
  for you even though you may not receive thanks

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References

• http//ideapractices.org General Reference for
  IDEA
• http//ideapractices.org/law/brief/brief05.php -
  Questions and
• Answers site for federal discipline laws for
  special populations.
• http.www.tasb.org/policy/discipline/chapter37_clea
  n.pdf Texas
• Education Code Chapter 37 Discipline

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References cont.

• Nelson, J., et. al. (2000). Positive Discipline
  in the Classroom, Revised 3rd Edition
  Developing Mutual Respect, Cooperation,
• and Responsibility in Your Classroom. New
  York Prima Lifestyles
• Marshal, M. (2001). Discipline Without Stress
  Punishments or Rewards How Teachers and Parents
  Promote Responsibility
• Learning. Kansas City Piper Press

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References cont.

• National Staff Development Council www.nsdc.org
  
• Association for Curriculum and Supervision
  Development www.ascd.org
• Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
  www.nwrel.org
• Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors
  Association (TEPSA) www.tepsa.org

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References cont.

• Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA)
  www.tasanet.org
• University of Texas Dana Center
  www.utdanacenter.org
• Dunleavy, James. Mentorship A Matter of
  Professional Responsibility. PT Magazine of
  Physical Therapy. March 2004
• Hairston, Carolyn J. Mentorship. Reporter,
  March 200, Vol. 27 Issue, p31, 2p

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References cont.

• Mathis, Robert L John H. Jackson. 2000. Human
  Resource Management.
• Atilla the Hun
• The Leadership Pill
• Who Moved My Cheese?
• FISH by Stephen C. Lundin, Ph.D., Harry Paul, and
  John Christensen

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References cont.

• http//www.educationworld.com/a_admin/admin/admin2
  89.shtml
• http//www.ericdigest.org/pre921/motivating.htm
• Byham, W.C. Ph.D. (1992). Zapp! in education. New
  York Fawcett Columbine.
• Sanborn, M. High impact leadership how to be
  more than a manager. Boulder
• CareerTrack Publications.

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References cont.

• Waters, T., Marzano, R.J., McNulty, B. (2003).
  Balanced leadership what 30 years of research
  tells us about the effect of leadership on
  student achievement. http// www.mcrel.org/topics
  /productDetail.asp?topicsID7produc
•  Managing Diversity--The Courage to Lead by Elsie
  Y. Cross
• The Origins of Cultural Differences and Their
  Impact on Management