Leading Teams

Steve Barkley

Professional Learning Community

Teaching is a Team Sport

Teaching is a

Public Act

Building Professional Capital(Fullan)

Professional capital has three components: human, social, and decisional. Human capital is about the qualities of individuals. Strangely, though, you can't accumulate much human capital by focusing only on the capital of individuals. Human capital must be complemented by social capital—groups working hard in focused and committed ways to bring about substantial improvements. Social capital can raise individual human capital—a good team, school, or system lifts everyone. But, as we often see in sports, higher individual human capital—a few brilliant stars—does not necessarily improve the overall team.

My Work

My Time

Design together

Implement individually

Shared responsibility for student

achievementHelping

each other

Modify Individual Behavior,

Consensus on implementation

Individual

Franchise Team

Vulnerability Trust

Vulnerability ACTION Trust

Wheatley Diagram

Informatio

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Vision

Relatio

nship

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New

CREATIVITY

Experiments

Wheatly, M.J. and M. Kellner-Rogers, A Simpler Way.

Inattention to

RESULTS

Avoidance ofACCOUNTABILITY

Lack ofCOMMITMENT

Fear of CONFLICT

Absence ofTRUST

Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Jossey-Bass), pg.97.

Staying Focused

on Results

Building inAccountability

Establishing the Willingnessto Make Commitments

Learning to Work Through Conflicts

Building Trust Among Members

Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (Jossey-Bass), pg. 97

Organizing GeniusWarren Bennis and

Patricia Ward Biederman

“Groups become great only when everyone in them, leaders and members alike, is free to do his or her absolute best.”

“The best thing a leader can do for a Great Group is to allow its members to discover their greatness.”