This document discusses leadership practices that can take principals to the next level of school improvement. It focuses on achieving greatness as a leader through Level 5 leadership concepts described by Jim Collins. Level 5 leadership involves a paradoxical combination of personal humility and strong professional will. The document discusses identifying Level 5 behaviors in video examples and considering how changes in behavior can help principals become Level 5 leaders. It provides definitions and descriptions of Collins' five levels of leadership.

1. Principal Alford & Principal Floyd

2. This session will focus on leadership practices
that take you to the
next level of school improvement
and maximizing principal leadership

3. • “What does it take to step up to the next level?”
• Achieving "Greatness" as a Leader, how does that propel you to the
next level of school improvement?
• How will the Jim Collins’ Level 5 leadership concepts maximize your
principal leadership?
• What changes in your behavior are needed to be a Level 5 leader based
on Jim Collins’ key ideas?
Discover the answers to these
questions

5. The moment you feel the
need to tightly manage
someone, you’ve made a
hiring mistake. The best
people don’t need to be
managed. Guided, taught,
led–yes. But not tightly
managed.”

6. “The purpose of
bureaucracy is to
compensate for
incompetence and lack of
discipline–a problem that
largely goes away if you
have the right people in the
first place.”

7. “We found that for leaders
to make something great,
their ambition has to be for
the greatness of the work
and the company, rather
than for themselves.”

8. “Good is the enemy of
great”

9. Consider the idea that
charisma can be as much a
liability as an asset. Your
strength of personality can
sow the seeds of
problems.”

10. “Before you ask how, ask who”

11. Great leaders aren’t
necessarily charismatic,
they just make good
decisions. “The best results
are achieved through
disciplined thought and
action,” said Jim Collins.

12. Definition: Level 5 Leadership is the
highest stage in a hierarchy of leadership
levels described by Collins ('01). Level
Five Leaders take companies from good
to great by building enduring greatness
through a paradoxical combination of
personal humility and professional will.
L5L is based on the idea that respect
towards people, selflessness by the
leader, and a strong powerful
commitment to achieve results, bring out
the best in subordinates.
The levels described by Collins
are:
L5: Level 5 Executive
L4: Effective Leader
L3: Competent Manager
L2: Contributing Team Member
L1: Highly Capable Individual
Watch the three videos - Using the definition
above
Identify the Level 5 behaviors that are exhibited.
Record your answers sheet provided.

13. Definition: Level 5 Leadership is the
highest stage in a hierarchy of leadership
levels described by Collins ('01). Level
Five Leaders take companies from good
to great by building enduring greatness
through a paradoxical combination of
personal humility and professional will.
L5L is based on the idea that respect
towards people, selflessness by the
leader, and a strong powerful
commitment to achieve results, bring out
the best in subordinates.
The levels described by Collins
are:
L5: Level 5 Executive
L4: Effective Leader
L3: Competent Manager
L2: Contributing Team Member
L1: Highly Capable Individual
Scenarios

14. The highest stage in a hierarchy
of leadership levels described by
Collins ('01). Level Five Leaders
take companies from good to
great by building enduring
greatness through a paradoxical
combination of personal humility
and professional will.
L5L is based on the idea that
respect towards people,
selflessness by the leader, and a
strong powerful commitment to
achieve results, bring out the best
in subordinates.
The levels described by Collins
are:
•L5: Level 5 Executive
•L4: Effective Leader
•L3: Competent Manager
•L2: Contributing Team
Member
•L1: Highly Capable Individual

15. Discussion: An excerpted article from From Good Schools to Great
Schools: What Their Principals Do Well, by Susan Penny Gray and
William A. Streshly, with permission from Corwin Press.
From Good Schools to Great Schools: Next Steps

16. “Good to Great, are you naughty or nice?”

17. WHERE ARE YOU ON YOUR JOURNEY?
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