A look at 10 helpful hints to working in educational leadership. Many of the 'hints' can be used for anyone in manage.

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2. Leadership in education is no different than leadership in business...
except that it is completely different.
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3. The more authority a leader is willing to share, the more
influential he or she becomes.
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4. Effective leaders awaken the leader within each member of the
organization.
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5. The primary job of the leader is to prepare those who work for
her or him for their next position.
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6. Despite a succession of ever-increasing leadership
responsibilities, I am still a teach; only my students have
changed – from children, to high school students, to teachers, to
principals, and finally to superintendents and network leaders.
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7. The model for adult learning must parallel the model of student
learning, and always does. That is, the way you work with and
develop teachers invariably finds its way into classroom practice.
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8. Conventional wisdom is that teachers talk and learners listen.
However, the most effective teaching and leading can come from
listening; and when the learner is active and talking, she or he
learns more and retains it.
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9. All organizations attract the quality of leadership they are
designed to attract.
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10. As Mas DePree advised in his book “Leadership Is an Art,” good
leaders absorb pain, they don‟t inflict it.
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11. Leadership is not the highest level of moral development or
authority. At times, leaders may find it necessary to balance the
needs of an individual with the greater good of the organization.
Such decisions must be made thoughtfully, and with humility.
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12. There is no textbook, book, law, regulation, policy, procedure,
code of conduct, or tool that can effectively know your
motivation for leadership. Only you can provide that knowledge.
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13. What questions do you have?
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14. „Leadership image‟ created at www.wordle.net
Daniel Boyer, BA, QMed, CDTP
Thank you.