Style Matters: Keys to Effective Division Leadership

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Style Matters Keys to Effective Division
Leadership

• Sue Kirkpatrick
• ISAS Division Heads Meeting
• June 10, 2009

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What Is Leadership?

• Great person theories
• Trait-based theories
• Behavior-based theories
• Situation-based theories
• Relationship theories
• Shared leadership theories
• Transformational leadership theories
• Organizational leadership theories
• Servant leadership theories
• And on and on

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Just a few

• Drucker Foundation Leaders of the Future
• Leaders at all levels
• Change
• Diversity
• Partnering
• Team as core structure
• The Ellis School 4 Fundamentals
• Self-awareness
• Accountability
• Valuing others
• Integrity

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• Warren Bennis 4 Keys of Effective Leadership
• Attention through vision
• Meaning through communication
• Trust through partnering
• Action through modeling
• Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence
• Knowing and managing ones own emotions
• Recognizing emotions in others
• Finding worth and enjoyment in tasks
• Handling relationships
• Being persistent in face of frustration
• Empathizing
• Motivating self without immediate gratification

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As a Division Head

• What do you think interferes most with effective
  leadership?
• What do you think are the biggest challenges to
  effective leadership?

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Communication Styles Inventory

• How do you communicate with others? (style,
  forms, natural inclinations)
• Are your methods as effective as they could be?
• What would make them work better?

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Communication Styles

• 1. Driving..Direct Style
• 2. Expressive..Talkative Style
• 3. Amiable..Sincere Style
• 4. AnalyticalOrganized Style

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What Is Your True Color?

• YES, this is me! Best fit
• I could live with it. Okay fit
• I dont think its me, but I am not adverse to
  it. Marginal fit
• 1 No way, this is NOT me! Poor fit

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What style of leader are you?

• ORANGE
• GOLD
• BLUE
• GREEN

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Show Your True Colors

• It is your groups task to describe a vision for
  the ideal 21st century school.

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True Colors

• JOYS Everyone desires to enjoy life, to find
  its joys. Do we seek the same thing?
• NEEDS Needs are central to the desires we have
  for ourselves. Do we have the same needs?
• STRENGTHS Strengths express the characteristics
  that we instinctively feel are our strongest
  points. Are we naturals at the same things?
• FRUSTRATIONS Frustrations are a part of
  everyday life. Do we perceive them in the same
  way? Do we react to and manage them in the same
  way?

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True Color Codes Performance

• Your new, teacher is ORANGE/GOLD/ BLUE/GREEN.
  How can you, as the supervisor, help the new
  teacher perform at a satisfactory level?

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True Color Codes Student Characteristics

• ORANGE.Active
• GOLD..Structured
• BLUE..Interactive
• GREENIndependent

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Age Matters

• Do you find that your veteran faculty respond to
  things differently than your younger faculty?

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look beyond the individual.

• They had to understand the culture that he or
  she was part of, and who their friends and
  families were, and what town their families came
  from. They had to appreciate the idea that the
  values of the world we inhabit and the people we
  surround ourselves with will have a profound
  effect on who we are.
• Malcolm Gladwell, The Outliers, 2008

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The Multigenerational School

• The War/Greatest (Veterans, Silent Generation,
  G.I.) Born teens to mid 1940s (now 64-94
  years old)
• Hardworking, loyal, submissive, tech-challenged,
  traditional
• The Baby Boomers (Generation Jones) Born after
  WW 2 to 1960 (now 49-63 years old)
• Work-centric, self-worth from job, independent,
  goal-oriented, competitive
• Generation X (Xers, Baby Busters) Born 1961/4
  to 1981/4 (now 25-48 years old)
• Individualistic, technologically-adept, flexible,
  value life/work balance, job is one part of me
• Generation Y (Nexters, Net Generation, Digital
  Natives, Millennial, Trophy) Born early 1980s
  to 2000) (now 9-25 years old)
• Tech-savvy, family-centric, wired social
  communities, culturally tolerant,
  achievement-oriented, peer-oriented,
  attention-craving, job is opportunity to add
  value and contribute
• Generation Z (Digital Natives, New Silent
  Generation) Born mid 1990s through 2000s (now
  1-14 years old)
• Digital natives, family-dependent, wired, social
  communities, socially conscience, team-oriented,
  attention-craving, high degree of influence over
  parents

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Generations Working Together

• Recognize that people bring different strengths,
  interests, joys, and frustrations to their jobs.
  
• Realize that circumstances, upbringing, and
  experiences have an impact on peoples
  expectations, needs, goals, and life chances.
• Understand that we can learn from each other and
  that respect is the key factor in collaborative
  efforts.
• Know that there might be a better way to do
  things.
• Be patient.

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So, here is the BIG question

• You are a GOLD Baby Boomer Division Head who is
  facilitating a conversation between a BLUE
  Generation X Department Head and an ORANGE
  Millennial Generation new teacher about a thorny
  issue with a GREEN Generation X helicopter
  parent. What knowledge and skills will you bring
  to the table, and how will you structure the
  interaction?

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Resources

• Drucker Foundation, Leader to Leader Institute,
  www.leadertoleader.org.
• Ferketish, Jean, Lazar, Maureen. University of
  Pittsburgh, Emerging Leaders Program.
• Gladwell, Malcolm. (2008). The Outliers. New
  York Little, Brown, and Company.
• Goleman, Daniel. (1995). Emotional Intelligence
  Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, New York Bantam
  Books, Inc.
• Howe, Neil, Strauss, William. (2000).
  .Millennials Rising The Next Great Generation.
  New York Vintage Books.
• ISM Update. March April 2006.
• Jukes, Ian. Understanding Digital Kids Teaching
  and Learning in a Digital Landscape. PAIS
  Conference, April 2007.
• Kane, Sally. www.about.com.
• Orem, Donna. NAIS Chief Operating Officer. Trends
  Demographics, PAIS Conference, April 2007.
• Pink, Daniel. www.danpink.com.

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• Sue Kirkpatrick
• 6510 St. Stephens Drive
• Austin, TX 78746
• 512-732-1858 (h)
• 412-877-7709 (c)
• suekirk_at_austin.rr.com
• skirkpatrick_at_sstx.org