Leadership learning: leadership practice

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Leadership learning leadership practice

SRELA Leading peopleAugust 2008

• Jeremy HurleyPrincipals Australia

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Four dimensions of religious leadership Paul
Sharkey

• The person of the leader
• The community being led
• The tradition in which the leadership unfolds
• The technical skills and knowledge of leadership

• The person of the leader
• The tradition in which the leadership unfolds
• The community being led
• The technical skills and knowledge of leadership

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The L5 Framethe scope and work of leadership

• Leadership starts from within
• Leadership is about influencing others
• Leadership develops a rich learning environment
• Leadership builds professionalism and management
  capability
• Leadership inspires leadership actions and
  aspirations in others

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About leadership

• Leaders know what needs changing and take
  responsibility and have the capability to
  influence others to create this change. They ask
  themselves What is it about what I am doing that
  is contributing to the current situation?
• The leader is found where the buck stops
• Leaders intentionally challenge the status quo

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Leadership starts from within

• What do you believe about leadership?

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• Leadership inspires

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• Leadership inspires
• Good leadership has moral purpose

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• Leadership inspires
• Good leadership has moral purpose
• Leadership is risky business

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• Leadership inspires
• Good leadership has moral purpose
• Leadership is risky business
• Strong leadership is not the same as good
  leadership

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Leadership starts from within

• What do you believe about leadership?

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Leadership needs a purpose

• In twenty words or less, write down your
  statement of professional responsibility as RE
  leader (ie where the buck stops with you, and for
  which you are accountable).

leading supporting developing enabling building
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1 Leadership starts from within

• Beliefs
• Values
• Integrity
• Knowledge
• Vision
• Responsibility
• Commitment
• Courage
• Resilience
• Humour

What words would you choose?
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• What is your moral purpose, and how do you
  sustain it?
• What do you fear?
• What do you expect of yourself as a leader? What
  are your possibilities?
• Where and how do you draw the line, to offer
  service but avoid martyrdom? How do you stay
  strong?
• What is your bottom line? What are your
  non-negotiables?

What questions would you ask?
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2 Leadership is about influencing others

• Power
• Relationships
• Communication
• Respect
• Trust
• Expectations
• Political savvy
• Advocacy
• Challenge and conflict

What words would you choose?
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3 Leadership develops a rich learning
environment

• Intellect
• Inquiry
• Reflection
• Facilitation
• Teaching
• Openness
• Evidence
• Collaboration
• Dialogue
• Rigour

What words would you choose?
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4 Leadership builds professionalism and
management capability

• Service
• Stewardship
• Ethics
• Accountability
• Productivity
• Performance
• Efficiency
• Professional networks and advocacy

What words would you choose?
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Accountability

• How do you hold yourself accountable?
• How do others hold you accountable?
• How would you
• How do you hold others accountable?

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5 Leadership inspires leadership aspirations and
actions in others

• Encouragement
• Risk
• Opportunities
• Mentoring
• Coaching
• Modelling

What words would you choose?
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A tool to interrogate and cultivate leadership

• Leadership starts from within
• Leadership is about influencing others
• Leadership develops a rich learning environment
• Leadership builds professionalism and management
  capability
• Leadership inspires leadership actions and
  aspirations in others
• Leadership starts from within
• Leadership is about influencing others
• Leadership develops a rich learning environment
• Leadership builds professionalism and management
  capability
• Leadership inspires leadership actions and
  aspirations in others
• Leadership starts from within
• Leadership is about influencing others
• Leadership develops a rich learning environment
• Leadership builds professionalism and management
  capability
• Leadership inspires leadership actions and
  aspirations in others

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Leading professionals to improve practice

• School leaders grow a community of expert
  professional practitioners.
• School leaders believe that how they develop
  their own and others professional practice has a
  direct bearing on the learning outcomes of their
  students.
• School leaders gain commitment from the whole
  community to develop a high performing school.
• School leaders involve others in building school
  capacity.
• School leaders build, support and work with high
  performing teams.
• School leaders use data-guided planning
  processes, to improve their own and others'
  effectiveness.
• School leaders improve their own performance and
  that of all staff through explicit professional
  learning and performance management.
• School leaders value staff members as experts and
  provide appropriate professional direction.

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Keep it simpleKeep it sensibleChallenge the
status quo

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