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- Leadership in Educational Administration – ED 7304
- Dr. Kip Sullivan
- Spring 2004
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- Team Sullivan Mogo
- Jarime Baethge, Secondary Teacher/Coach from Fort Davis, Texas
- Eddie Boggess, Elementary Principal from Wink, Texas
- Ana Carroll, Secondary Teacher from El Paso, Texas
- Cynthia Henderson-Minton, Secondary Teacher from Sanderson, Texas
- Brandy Merrick, Elementary Assistant Principal from Plainview, Texas
- Madge Patterson, Secondary Teacher from Forsan, Texas
- Kellye Riley, Secondary Principal from Monahans, Texas
- Roy Rutledge, Secondary Assistant Principal from Monahans, Texas
- Tracy Tadlock, Graduate Student from Alpine, Texas
- Becky Winters-Baethge, Graduate Student from Alpine, Texas
- Leland Zant, Superintendent from New Home, Texas
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- Teaching is demanding and educators require continuous affirmation,
appreciation, and recognition.
Several issues affect teachers’ teaching, such as stress, lack of
appreciation, isolation, and negativity.
Leaders can do many things to appreciate and celebrate which
creates a happy, effective and self-confident staff.
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- Organize discussion groups to look for solutions to challenges
- When a challenge arises, ask for volunteers to find solutions. Encourage “out of the box” thinking!
- Have a “Whine & Cheese” Party
- Do you have a stressed-out staff going through major changes? Bring everyone together and let them
“whine” with some cheese and drinks.
Whining is okay as long as 95% of the time, after whining is
finished, is spent on solutions!
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- Reward staff in unexpected ways at unexpected times
- Have fun with recognition and be creative. Have a group run into a staff
member’s room with confetti, streamers, horns and snacks when he/she is
deserving. Enjoy the moment!
- Develop a positive relationship with the local media to highlight great
activities in the newspaper and on the local television station.
- We MUST be our own public relations advocate in this business. The media rarely comes to us for good
information so we MUST go to them.
Make the media your friend!
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- Hand out “BONUS BUCKS” for exemplary efforts
- Design a dollar that you hand out to staff for great doings. Once a month they can use their bucks
to bid on items donated by local businesses or staff members. Fun & gag items must be included!
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- “If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his
highest ranking subordinate to his place. For when a chieftain has failed, so
likewise have his subordinate leaders.” ~Attila the Hun
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- Having an opinion or general feeling about something; and/or having a
physical posture, either conscious or unconscious, while interacting
with others. An attitude can be
either positive or negative; however, both have consequences.
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- Positive Attitude
- “A will finds a way.” ~Orison Swett Marden
- A positive attitude helps you and others be more optimistic when times
get tough.
- “Every exit is an entry somewhere.” ~Tom Stoppard
- Leaders who choose to have a positive attitude when times get grim
allow for their followers to have hope and a chance to also become
positive during grim times.
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- Negative Attitude
- “The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
~Oscar Wilde
- When someone is wrapped up in negativity, they tend to forget the
bigger picture.
- “You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because
thorns have roses. ~Ziggy
- Negative attitudes find a way to complain about a situation, while
positive attitudes find a way to compliment the situation.
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- Collaborative decision-making is an inclusive process that involves a
leadership team in a school, which develops or devises a plan of action
that the whole school community can rally behind and follow through to
the end.
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- “If you have the right people, they will be self-motivated.”
- Before there can be collaboration, you must carefully select key people
in the organization to be the leaders of the team.
- “Highly capable individuals make productive contributions through
talents, knowledge, skills and good work habits.”
- The purpose of collaboration is to bring together the strengths of key
people. Weaknesses will be
exposed. The leader must guide
the group to play to the strengths of the team, but not to prey on the
weaknesses of the individuals.
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- “The team will develop a short term and a long term plan.”
- When collaboratively developing the team plan and vision, every good
idea and good plan can always be improved. The leadership team should have
confidence in its plans, and be open-minded enough to accept any improvement
regardless of whose idea it is.
- “Look to promote from within.”
- Through collaboration, leaders set up their successors for even greater
success in the next generation.
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- “A king with chieftains who always agree with him reaps the council of
mediocrity.” ~Attila the Hun
- “Every decision involves some risk.”
- ~Attila the Hun
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- Effective communication is the difference between verbalizing visions
that inspire or expressing concepts that confuse…the difference between building
trust and driving results or instigating chaos and failure…the
difference between being adequately prepared on a subject or just
“winging it”…the difference between intentionally saying what you mean
or unintentionally mis-communicating…the difference between making
expectations clearly known or creating vague prospects…the difference
between being an empathetic, attentive listener or listening with
indifference…effective communication skills make the difference between
being an effective leader or a mediocre one.
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- When you listen, really listen; hear the feelings behind the words.
- When you speak, be clear, be concise, be kind.
- When you set a vision, articulate it.
- When you plan, tell people about it.
- When you delegate, have a dialogue with your people about who does what.
- When you coach, have a conversation about what’s going right and what
needs improvement.
- When you recognize, do so with words (and actions).
- When you motivate, do all of the above to empower and validate your
staff.
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- “The best chieftains develop the ability to ask the right questions at
the right time.” ~Attila the Hun
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- There will be conflicts, whether it be with colleagues, teachers,
parents, or students. Get over
it…_ _it happens! The important
thing is how we handle these situations.
- “What the outcome to your conflict is will have the ripple effect of
your solution.” –M. Poppell
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- Listen…nooo…shhh! Listen to what
is being said!
- “Be approachable, listen to the good and bad news from your huns.”
~Attila the Hun
- Be calm and rational…You cannot make good decisions when you are in a
hurry-up emotional upheaval.
Experience will help with quicker responses, and the first few
will need some thought.
- “Never threaten the security or esteem of another Hun.”
- ~Attila the Hun
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- Keep your shell of calm; for your troops are looking to you to set the
mood.
- Your first instinct is usually the right one.
- If in doubt, ask questions and look for answers. Remember, there is no such thing as a
dumb question.
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- “Your huns may not always be compatible, but they spread discontent if
difficulties are not resolvable.” ~Attila the Hun
- Be Fair…you are always going to be under pressure and scrutinized. Make sure you are looking for the best
solutions to benefit the students.
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- Empower – to give legal or moral power or authority to; authorize;
commission; to warrant
- Delegate – to send with power to act as a representative; to entrust,
commit, or deliver to another’s care; manage; a person appointed and
sent by another or by others with powers to transact business as his or
their representative
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- Manage – to have under control and direct; to govern with address; to
direct or conduct affairs; easily made subservient to one’s views or
design
- Prioritize –the state of being prior to antecedent in time or of
preceding something else; precedence in place or rank
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- When leaders fulfill the role of a manager, they delegate their
priorities through people, thus empowering those people with ownership,
vision, direction, and the desire to reach a goal.
- Leaders are managers with great vision and the ability to empower the
ones that follow.
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- Empowering Delegation – the key of leadership is not treatment of all
followers, but unequal treatment of followers with unequal talents. ~Arabic Proverb
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- Be ENTHUSIASTIC as a leader.
- “You cannot light a fire with a wet match!” ~Unknown
- “Enthusiasm radiates, permeates and immediately captures everyone’s
interest.” ~Paul Meyer
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- Enthusiasm is NOT the same as just being excited. Being enthusiastic about something is
very much like being inspired by a supreme being. One gets excited about going on a roller
coaster. One becomes enthusiastic
about building a roller coaster.
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation and a pinch
of creativity.
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- Enthusiasm will empower you to do just about anything you want, and
most of all it will help you do it exceptionally well. The feeling of enthusiasm has incredible effects on the physical
body as well. Voice, posture,
heart rate and energy, to name a few, are all positively effected when
one is filled with enthusiasm.
Those around you easily detect this enthusiasm. When another finds you enthusiastic
about something, it is difficult for that person not to share some of
your enthusiasm. This is
incredibly important when selling a product, service or idea to
others. With enthusiasm, your
success rate increases phenomenally.
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- Use words, body language and visual aids to share your ideas. Use enthusiasm to share your
feelings. The ability to allow
others to share your passion, even if temporarily, is priceless.
- “You must have a passion to succeed—a passion that drives you to prepare
yourself and your people to excel.” ~Attila the Hun
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- Ethics is the set of principles and rules that govern the actions of an
individual or organization.
- Integrity is the moral soundness to adhere to the ethics of the
organization.
- People in leadership positions proclaim the importance of integrity and
ethics. However, many do not have
the strength of will to make decisions with integrity.
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- To maintain Integrity and Ethics
a leader must:
- Do what you say you will do.
- Treat everyone in the organization equitably.
- Make the right decision, which may or may not be the popular decision.
- Do the right thing even if no one is watching.
- Tell the truth no matter how painful it might be.
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- “Chieftains must never shed the cloak of honor, morality, and
dignity.” ~Attila the Hun
- “Chieftains must hold a profound conviction of duty above all other
ambitions.” ~Attila the Hun
- “Chieftains must understand that the spirit of the law is greater than
its letter.” ~Attila the Hun
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- Effective leaders know the value of lifelong learning and practice
continual professional growth and development.
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- In order to achieve Stephen Covey’s 7th Habit of Highly Effective
People, leaders can “sharpen the saw” by:
- Attending professional development workshops and trainings
- Attending professional conferences and conventions
- Networking with other professional leaders and administrators
- Mentoring those new to leadership/administration
- READ, READ, READ
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- “Teachable skills are for developing Huns. Learnable skills are reserved for
- chieftains.” ~Attila the Hun
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- the need or desire that causes a person to act; a force, stimulus, or
influence; to give incentive or drive to achieve
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- “Motivation through leadership comes from understanding and meeting the
needs of your workers, not coercing them.”
- ~Dr. William Glasser
- “Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you
should have accomplished with your ability.”
- ~John Wooden
- “Motivation is what gets you started.
Habit is what keeps
- you going.” ~Unknown
- “People prefer to follow those who help them, not those
- who intimidate them.” ~C. Gene
Wilkes
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- “If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect
wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long
for the endless immensity of the sea.”
~Antione do Saint-Exupery
- “If people are coming to work excited…if they’re concentrating doing
things, rather than preparing reports and going to meetings—then
somewhere you have leaders.”
- ~Robert Townsend
- “Leadership is doing what is right when no one is watching.” ~George Van Valkenburg
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- Watch your thoughts; they become words.
- Watch your words; they become actions.
- Watch your actions; they become habits.
- Watch your habits; they become character.
- Watch your character; it becomes
- your destiny.
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- “Vision is the bigger picture that motivates employees because they understand how their individual
efforts contribute to the overall dream.”
- NUTS! Southwest Airlines’
Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success
- “If you don’t know where you are going, every road leads to
nowhere.” ~Henry Kissinger
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- “Our vision of the future must build on the strength of the past.
Yet, we must anticipate new challenges and opportunities.”
- ~Attila the Hun
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