Leadership Concepts

JiangXi Educational Management Programme Chris Jansen – University of Canterbury

Overview

• Leadership competency models • Leadership vs Management

• The impact of educational leadership on student achievement

Make a list of all the types of leadership you can recall…

Ie: transactional leadership

distributed leadership…

Leadership Literature

Leadership as a concept has been widely studied from multiple professional viewpoints.

• In excess of 3000 studies focusing on leadership Stoghill (1990) • UC Library database has record of 14 international journals with

“Leadership” in the title • Burns (1978, 2003), Kouzes & Posner (2002), Fairholm (1998), Senge

(2004), Covey (2004), Goleman (1996), Bass (1990), Seligman (2004), Buckingham (2001), Senge (2004), Zenger & Folkman (2002), Jung (2003), Jaworski (1996), Collins (2001, 2005), Cammock(2001,2008), etc

Range of Leadership Models; • Transactional, Transformational,

Instructional, Moral, Participative, Situational, Distributed

• Leaders as learners • Personal vs professional

leadership, Servant leadership / Level 5 Leadership, Sustainable Leadership

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Kiwi Leadership for Principals

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The Zenger-Folkman Leadership Tent

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ARACTER

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ACEL Framework (Australian Council of Educational Leadership)

Developing Chinese Leaders in the 21st

Century

“Lessons of experiences – China research project: 2007-2009” Based on interviews with 55 top-level executives from 6 China based companies (state controlled and private) Identified: •Events – key drivers of leadership development, experiences that drive learning and change •Lessons - represent a shift in attitudes, values, knowledge, behaviour or skill level – due to the key developmental events

Which of these leadership events have also been significant in your development as a leader?

What similar lessons have you learnt from these events?

The Role of a Manager

Leadership (Vision & people driven)

Management (Office bound/paper driven)

Professional Technical Work/Service

Plan Organise Control Administer systems Critique Create Order

Vision Meaningful Contribution Values Engage and develop People Create context

Compliance & Status-Quo Efficiency

Commitment, Change & Hi-

Performance

Cammock (2001) The Dance of Leadership

Management and Leadership

What proportion of your time do you spend on leadership vs management roles?

Are you satisfied with that? If not – what change could you initiate?

Student achievement outcomes

Leadership capacity

Organisational capacity

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Compared the impact of transformational and pedagogical leadership on student achievement Transformational leadership: emphasises vision and inspiration, developing relationships Pedagogical/instructional leadership: emphasises the importance of establishing clear educational goals, planning the curriculum, and evaluating teachers and teaching. Findings: Impact of pedagogical leadership to be nearly four times that of transformational leadership.

Focused in on Educational Leadership

Relative impact of 5 leadership dimensions of student outcomes

Related leadership knowledge, skills and dispositions

Pedagogical/Instructional Leadership in action

Which of these leadership factors also impact student achievement in the tertiary sector?

Benefits:

• Engagement, ownership leading to…

…enthusiasm/energy and commitment

• Better solutions – innovation

The Pronoun Test “I” or “We”

“My” or “Our”

“We” or “They”

Daniel Pink – “A whole new mind”

“There's only one thing better than ownership – authorship!

Simon Breakspear , “Talent Magnets”

Adaptive Leadership

Characterised by both; • participative processes ”Surfing the Edge of Chaos’” • collaborate solution finding

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