critical habits of transformational leaders …...critical habits = leadership compass • purpose...
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Transformational Leadership Dr. Phil Warrick
Associate Vice President Marzano Research
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Leadership
• Life develops leaders naturally over time.
• Collaboration in leadership can speed up the process.
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Education Leadership
Only those with courage need apply
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Finding Your Leadership Compass
Leadership is about action, not position.
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Transformational Leaders
• Understand leadership as an organizational process, not an individual process.
• Have specific leadership values and habits that inform their actions as a leader.
• Are reflective in their practices and are continually learning from mentors.
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Critical Habits For Transformational Leadership
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Have a purpose bigger than self.
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A Purpose Bigger Than Self: Creating the conditions in which others can be successful.
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School Improvement … Means People Improvement Effective leaders help those they lead feel more capable by___________________.
Leaders of Learning
(DuFour & Marzano, 2011)
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Servant Leadership
Paradox: Through being a servant, a leader grows his or her influence as a leader.
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Servant Leadership Made Easy
• Work in any setting.
• Work with any person or issue.
• Work without complaint.
• Work honestly.
(Heider, The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age, 1985)
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Have a core set of beliefs that guide their decisions.
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Wallace Foundation Study
What actions and behaviors are most associated with high- performing principals?
Establish a vision centered on high student achievement which includes “personal vision.”
What is your personal vision for the school, department, or team you lead?
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Effective Leaders … Establish a common framework of research-based strategies for achieving their identified goals.
Leaders of Learning (DuFour & Marzano, 2011)
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Engage others in critical conversations.
Transformational Leadership
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“Critical Conversations”
• Critical doesn’t mean combative…. • If two people always agree…one of them
isn’t necessary.
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When soul enters the conversation, people will listen.
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High-Performing School Systems Study
In every instance … The first step effective leaders took to improve their systems was to clarify … what was non-negotiable.
Referenced in DuFour & Marzano, Leaders of Learning (2011)
How The World’s Most Improved School Systems Keep Getting Better
(Mourshed, Chijioke, & Barber, 2010)
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Remain centered in times of crisis.
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Sources of Crisis • Manufactured Crisis
– There is a certain level of dysfunction in all organizations.
• Change will almost always cause crisis for someone.
• Human or personal crisis will visit when you least expect it.
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All types of crises have a critical factor in common.
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The Ripple Effect
• The leader’s behavior influences others through a ripple effect.
• Ripple effects work because people influence other people.
• People with power cause bigger ripples.
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Crisis and Opportunity
Times of turmoil provide leaders with an opportunity to emerge with a vision. The greatest opportunities are usually disguised as tough situations.
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Have courage to act when others do not.
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Every now and then you are going to have to plant your feet, stand firm, and make a point about what you believe in.
(Riley, The Winner Within: A Life Plan for Team Players, 1994)
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High Reliability Organizations
• Continually monitor for errors in critical factors of their operation.
• Immediately take action to keep those errors from becoming systemwide failures.
As referenced in Marzano, Warrick, & Simms,
A Handbook for High Reliability Schools (in press)
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Develop their own replacements.
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The Art of Leadership
Develop more leaders and leave a legacy of leadership.
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Effective Leaders …
Recognize that the ability to lead is not the private reserve of a few extraordinary people or those in particular positions of authority.
Leaders of Learning (DuFour & Marzano, 2011)
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“No single person has all the knowledge, skills, and talent to lead a district, improve a school, or meet all the needs of every child in his or her classroom.”
Leaders of Learning (DuFour & Marzano, 2011)
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Collective leadership has more of an influence on learning than any individual source.
The Wallace Study
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• The last full measure of a successful leader….is the number of leaders they have created in their wake.
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Display positivity, hope, and optimism.
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Positivity and Negativity • Both are powerful.
• Both are contagious.
• Gallup study – 65 percent of all employees receive no
recognition in the workplace.
(Rath & Clifton, How Full Is Your Bucket?, 2005)
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Higher Productivity
• Study of workgroups and their positive to negative interactions ratio.
• Organizations with least 3:1 positive to negative interactions had significantly higher productivity.
(Rath & Clifton, How Full Is Your Bucket?, 2005)
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Critical Habits = Leadership Compass
• Purpose bigger than self • Core set of beliefs that guide decisions • Engage others in critical conversations • Remain centered in times of crisis • Have courage to act when others do not • Develop your own replacements • Display positivity, hope, and optimism
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Thank You [email protected]
@pbwarrick