Leadership in a Transformational Setting

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Leadership in a Transformational Setting

• Raymond J. McNulty, President
• Ray_at_Leadered.com

_at_ray_mcnulty
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The future is not some place we are going to,
but one we are creating. The paths are not
found, but made, and the activity of making them
changes both the maker and the destination.
--John Schaar
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Making a better 20th Century School is not
the answer.
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Reading Risk
Mapping State Proficiency Standards onto NAEP
Scales, IES August 2011
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Reading Risk
Mapping State Proficiency Standards onto NAEP
Scales, IES August 2011
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Math Risk
Mapping State Proficiency Standards onto NAEP
Scales, IES August 2011
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Math Risk
Mapping State Proficiency Standards onto NAEP
Scales, IES August 2011
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Themes

1. Some Key Points
2. Leadership Skills
3. Divergent Skills
4. Four Key Trends
5. Closing Point

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Theme

• Some Key Points

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We have a flawed perspective of always listening
to our best customers They tell us how good the
system is working for them!
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Schools are Improving
School Improvement
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• Schools are Improving

Changing World
School Improvement
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The primary aim of education is not to enable
students to do well in school, but to help them
do well in the lives they lead outside of school.
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College and Career Readiness Defined

• Cognitive strategies Intellectual openness
  inquisitiveness analysis interpretation
  precision and accuracy problem solving and
  reasoning, argumentation, and proof.
• Content knowledge Understanding the structures
  and large organizing concepts of the academic
  disciplines, resting upon strong research and
  writing abilities.
• Academic behaviors Self-management, time
  management, strategic study skills, accurate
  perceptions of ones true performance,
  persistence, ability to utilize study groups,
  self-awareness, self-control, and intentionality.
  
• Contextual skills and knowledge Facility with
  application and financial-aid processes and the
  ability to acculturate to college.

David Conley
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We are getting better at things that do not
matter as much anymore.
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Unless we unlearn some of our traditional
practices, we will never get beyond an
improvement mindset.
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Many of our efforts to transform education look
like the same old system!
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First Different - Then Better
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First practice must change, then results, then
policy.
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Systems are challenged today like never before.
The key challenge that we face is results.
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In an environment driven by results, the best
strategy is to DEVELOP YOUR PEOPLE.

• Broaden the definition of learning in your
• system to include adults.

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The focus must be on the way we work.

• Cooperation is what was valued in the past. It is
  about efficiency You do this and I will do
  that.
• Collaboration is where we should focus. It is
  about shared creation, in which the focus is not
  on the process but on the specific results.

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• Best and Next Practices

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Best practices allow you to do what you are
currently doing a little better.
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Best practices allow you to do what you are
currently doing a little better.

• Next practices increase your organizations
  capability
• to do things it has never done before.

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System
Innovation
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Next Practice
Sustaining Innovation
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Disruptive Innovation
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Expertise (the way we do things around here)
can be a road block to problem solving and to the
development of Next Practices.
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BANKING

• Sears
• IBM
• Xerox

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A Story.

• Not a bad idea, but to earn a grade more than a
  C, the idea has to be viable! (Yale Professor)

• Fredrick Smith
• The idea FedEx

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In the beginners mind there are many
possibilities in the experts mind there are
few.
-Shurnyu Suzuki
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First practice must change, then results, then
policy.
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Current SystemSomething Different
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The HorseThe Automobile
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Henry Ford quote

• If I had asked the public what they wanted,
• they would have said
• a faster horse.

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NEXT PRACTICE THINKING

• The Iterative Process
• Versions
• Create a disciplined, managed space for
  development of new ways to accomplish difficult
  tasks

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Theme

• Leadership Skills

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21st Century Environment

• Leadership today requires a balance of
  traditional skills mixed with innovation skills
• Stability, control and standardization mixed with
  uncertainty, ambiguity and disruptive thinking

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All leaders have problems or situations in front
of them for which there are no answers.
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The skill set to do this is

• Current Leadership works hard to efficiently
  deliver the next thing that should be done given
  the existing system. Current leadership shines at
  converting a vision or goal into actions to
  achieve that vision or goal.

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Delivery Skills

• Analyzing
• Planning
• Detailed Oriented Implementing
• Disciplined Executing

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Innovators seek to fundamentally change the
current model.

• Why accept the status quo?
• Look for new and better ways!
• Steve Jobs, I want to put a ding in the
  universe!

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Discovery Skills

• Questioning
• Observing
• Networking
• Experimenting
• Associational Thinking

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• Are you good at generating innovative ideas?
• Do you know how and where to find innovative
  people in your system?
• Do you know how to train your people to be
  creative and innovative?

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• Delivery Skills
• Analyzing
• Planning
• Detailed Oriented Implementing
• Disciplined Executing

• Discovery Skills
• Questioning
• Observing
• Networking
• Experimenting
• Associational Thinking

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Question Storming

• What is
• What caused.
• Why Why not.
• What if

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Highly Innovative Systems

• In your system is innovation everyones job?
• Is disruption part of your systems innovation
  portfolio?
• Are small project teams central to taking
  innovative ideas to scale?
• Does your system take smart risks in the pursuit
  of innovation?

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Theme

• Closing Point

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The fundamental task of a leader is to develop
confidence in advance of victory, in order to
attract the investments that make victory
possible.
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Leadership in a Transformational Setting

• Raymond J. McNulty, President
• Ray_at_Leadered.com

_at_ray_mcnulty