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Pre Session Activity - Leadership Approaches

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hi everyone and thanks so much for

joining me for our pre-session

work or activity that we're going to be

doing ahead of our time together during

your next leadership coaching session

with me

so today is going to be all about

looking into the different approaches to

school leadership that are most

conducive to staff wellbeing and

exploring who we are as a leader and the

kind of styles or approaches that that

we adopt ourselves

so by now you'll be really familiar with

my six step approach to improving staff

wellbeing and school culture so we've

made our way through now scanning our

school and pinpointing the health and

wellbeing needs of staff and we've

already begun to commence step two which

is to upskill the leaders and staff in

effective ways to promote and improve

staff wellbeing and school culture and

we're going to be continuing with that

throughout this term and through our

next few sessions

all around evolving our leadership it's

really important for us to align a

leadership approach that's more

conducive to staff well-being because

change really does begin with leaders in

fact the most current research is really

advocating for our leaders to evolve and

adapt the way that they lead their schools

schools

this is a great quote that i found

recently school leaders should have

distinct leadership styles in order to

respond to the covert 19 pandemic

so one of the key takeaways for our next

session together is that effective

leaders lead with well-being in mind

adapting their leadership to be

responsive to their staff

so this is the whole premise of a

well-led school it's those school

leaders who put wellbeing first and then

the rest will follow school performance

staff performance student performance

now effective leaders know their beliefs

and their values they understand their

strengths and areas for growth

how these influence their leadership and

impacts on the people that they lead

another great theme emerging in the

research for leaders in education there

is an increasing research evidence

demonstrating a strong connection

between self-awareness and leader effectiveness

effectiveness

so all of the work that we're going to

be doing in our upcoming sessions is

around building self-awareness and

extending that even to an external

self-awareness which we'll explore more

in our upcoming session

so the purpose of this very short video

is to explore these four different

styles and for you to self-reflect and review

review

which leadership style you think you fit into

into

or which is the leadership style that

you would aspire to adopt more in your

professional practice

so we're going to start off with

instructional leadership

so the instructional leader focuses on

improving teaching quality through the

professional development of teachers

often we'll see

instructional leaders having a really

in-depth understanding of pedagogy and

practice themselves

they plan for and facilitate teacher

learning so they're really focused on

the professional learning of their staff

they define their school's mission

they manage the instructional program so

providing those opportunities for their

staff and ensuring that there's continuity

continuity

they promote high expectations for

staff and and teacher performance and

for the students as well

they provide incentives for for teachers

and students to to perform

they evaluate teacher performance

regularly so um

engaging in performance reviews and and

regular goal setting and

and our professional development plans

is a key part of their professional practice

practice

they promote mentoring and coaching for the

the

uh quality of the instructional

leadership or the instructional program

and they focus on accountability from

their staff

so you might like to take a minute now

to pause the video and reflect in your

workbook on the strengths or the

attributes of an instructional leader

that that you currently have

or if you aspire to be more of an

instructional leader what are some of

those things that you can reflect on

that you'd like to work on or embed as

all right next we have strategic

leadership so strategic leadership is

based on long-range planning with an

assessment of current school performance

and it takes the necessary steps to

improve future results so strategic

leaders set the direction of the school

with vision so they're very vision orientated

orientated

they create frameworks interventions and

they allocate resources in order to get

to their their vision and support their

staff to

of course achieve that

they base their decisions on evidence

and research

they draw on data and respond with the

most suitable approach so whether it's

staff training reviewing their policies

and procedures or with a focus on

culture building

strategic leaders are always looking for

ways to improve the school environment

so they have quite a big picture view on

this and they invest in partnerships

across the school community

so you might like to take a minute to

reflect um am i a strategic leader

perhaps you've worked for or are now

working alongside or underneath the

strategic leader

are there qualities here of the

strategic leadership style that you

aspire to

that you would like to focus more on

doing or embedding as part of your

professional practice

take a moment now to pause the video use

your workbook and and fill out some of

those questions under the strategic

leadership section

next we have servant leadership i love

the name of this so um it you know it's

not dedicating ourselves wholly to to

another person or a group of people but

uh in many ways it actually kind of is

alluding to the fact that we're putting

uh other people

either directly in alignment with us or

ahead of us or we're very people focused

so servant leadership places an emphasis

on maintaining high expectations and

helping teachers and students to develop

their skills and

and

improve their performance so the key

word here is around helping teachers and

students so there's that um kind of loop

the alluding to the servant word there

so servant leaders instill the desire

for improvement while maintaining a

focus on both results and relationships

so there's a focus on connection here

servant leaders show characteristics

like listening empathy

empathy

healing awareness persuasion

persuasion conceptualization

conceptualization

foresight stewardship commitment to the

growth of people and building community

servant leaders remove barriers for

teachers they provide resources and open

communication with the entire school community

community

servant leaders share the power in

decision making so they involve the

people who are part of their school community

community

servant leaders motivate and persuade

their school community towards a shared

vision with a focus on the big picture

so this is almost you know moving from

strategic level that kind of step up to

involve more people and help people to

get on board with with their vision

and to support the people in their community

community

so you might like to reflect now on

whether you've worked whether alongside

a servant leader

whether you think you're a servant

leader yourself what are some of those

strengths that you show

as a servant leader

maybe you're thinking oh that sounds

like an awesome leadership approach

there are some qualities in that that i

aspire to move more towards as part of

my leadership journey

so pause the video now using your

workbook to record some of your ideas

and next we have transformational leadership

leadership

so transformational leadership takes a

collaborative approach

empowering staff to have a say in

decision making

it's built off share a shared sense of

purpose and collective goal setting

transformational leadership promotes and

fosters collective innovation and

improvement so as you can see in that

description there's lots of shared

involvement and the collective approach

it's very collaborative so

transformational leaders have high

performance expectations like many of

the other leadership approaches

they develop people with coaching

mentoring and support

there's a focus on building productive relationships

relationships

they also do provide instructional support

support

there's a real emphasis on engaging staff

staff

the transformational leader inspires trust

trust admiration

admiration

loyalty and respect from their followers

they have high

emotional intelligence

they're able to monitor their own emotions

emotions

and to a degree influence the emotions

of others

they energize their teams

and they drive success

let's have a think about it now have you

ever been lucky enough to to work under

the guidance of a transformational leader

leader

do you consider yourself a

transformational leader

what are your strengths

or are you thinking this sounds awesome

what are those attributes or those

skills or what are the elements of that

approach that you'd like to focus on

or work towards in order to evolve your

leadership further

so pause the video now to reflect on

your worksheet so we've explored four

different leadership styles today which

we'll be discussing in our upcoming

session i look forward to reflecting on

these different approaches with you as a

group during our upcoming session so

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