This document discusses various ways to develop leadership skills. It emphasizes that leadership skills are developed through frequent practice in a safe environment with clear objectives and constructive feedback. Some specific suggestions made include practicing leadership skills at Toastmasters, developing confidence and communication abilities, taking on both traditional and emerging leadership roles, and having a purposeful approach with support structures in place. The document also references additional resources on developing teacher leadership.

1. Developing
Leadership
LIB 604 Libraries in the School Curriculum
Spring 2013

2. How can you develop leaders?
What’s the best way to get to Carnegie Hall?
– Practice!
– Practice!
– Practice!

3. Where Can You Develop Leadership Skills?
 Skills Develop through Frequent Practice – in a Safe Place
 Clear Task Objectives and Careful Observation are Key
to Supportive Evaluations
 Constructive Feedback Benefits the Individual and the
Group
 Clear and Sincere Feedback is a Motivator
 Evaluating to Generate Supportive Feedback is Useful
Everyday
 Build Your Leadership Skills at Toastmasters

4. How to Develop Leadership Skill with 2Cs
1. Develop Leadership Skill - Confidence
– Confidence here is about building the trust in people
that you can lead to the group’s end objective. That
confidence is built when they know you have
capability of carrying the responsibility of a leader,
and the skills and competencies that can lead them to
that end result.
• Develop Leadership Skill – A Criterion for Success in Your
Career

5. How to Develop Leadership Skill with 2Cs
2. Develop Leadership Skill - Communication
– When you develop leadership skill early,
especially on communication – you win trust
from the people in your unit. It helps them
understand what is the overall objective, and
it helps them understand how they are part of
the bigger picture that helps achieve the
corporate goals.
• Develop Leadership Skill – A Criterion for Success
in Your Career

6. A video on developing leadership skills

7. Another video

8. Developing Teachers’ Leadership Skills
Just do it!
– Whether taking on traditional or emerging
roles, a major characteristic of teacher leaders
is that they often teach full- or part-time and
then assume other responsibilities. An
additional characteristic is that they have
generally learned the new role just by doing it.
• ERIC Digest. Author: Gehrke, Nathalie.
Publication Date: 1991-04-00
A pdf version of the original microfiche is
available here.

9. Steps to teacher leadership
But do it with purpose!
– Teacher leadership requires active steps to be taken
to constitute leadership teams and provide teachers
with leadership roles. A culture of trust and
collaboration is essential, as is a shared vision of
where the school needs to go, clear line management
structures and strong leadership development
programmes. In the developed and emergent teacher
leadership schools, barriers to teacher leadership
were mainly external to the school. In the school we
described as exhibiting restricted teacher leadership,
internal factors were also key barriers.
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10. Interesting metaphor

11. So, how to develop leadership in the school?

12. “10 Easy
Leadership Ideas
to Help School
Librarians
Become Leaders
on Their
Campuses”