Successful leadership focuses on developing others and achieving long-term results through engagement and skills development, while effective leadership focuses more on short-term task completion through close supervision. As a leader, decision-making methods include autocratic, persuasive, consultative, and co-determinate approaches. The decision-making process involves defining the situation, identifying alternatives, assessing alternatives, selecting the best option, securing acceptance, implementing, and evaluating the decision.

1. Question no 1: Define successful leadership and
describe the differences between
successful leadership and
effective leadership.
Question no 33 :As a leader what method will you
choose to make a good decision

2. Define successful leadership
 Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “A good
leader inspires people to have confidence
in the leader, a great leader inspires
people to have confidence in
themselves.”
 It turns out, the skills and talents
necessary to guide your team in the
right direction can be simple, and
anyone with the determination can
develop them.

4. Successful leadership
 If you look at the diagram above you will
see that a successful leaders will usually
be able to achieve a satisfactory level of
achievement – at least in the short term –
by focusing on each task and making sure
that they are completed.
 They often achieve these results by
making sure that the job gets done
through close supervision, and even
completing the job themselves

5.  To achieve this it will necessitate their
always being close by in order to keep
people on task.
 The problem with this is it only works in
the short term and so the long term
results will depend upon a series of short
term achievements.

6. Effective leadership
 Conversely effective leadership will lead to
better performance and greater results in
the long term.
 This is achieved by the leaders focusing
primarily on the development of others in
their attitudes, feelings and commitment
to their goals by increasing their levels of
engagement and task skills.

7.  This certainly takes more time from the
leader up front, which is one of the major
reasons
constantly hear why managers don’t do this.
 But in the long term it means that everyone
is skilled and committed to their job.
 The leader does not have to be around to
make sure that things are done properly and
can effectively delegate job where
appropriate.

8.  In the long term this provides leaders
with more time to fulfill their leadership
responsibilities effectively and long term
sustainability of results can be achieved.

9. Question 33
 Taking and implementing decisions are two
important roles in the management of an
effective school. Leader’s decision are crucial to
the achievement of education goals and the
implementation need participation from teacher
and support staff. The quality of decisions taken
reflects the leader’s effectiveness( Lunenburg
and Ornstein 2004)
 Activities such as planning, organizing, directing,
coordinating, monitoring, controlling, and
evaluating all involve a certain degree of decision
making. Decision must be transparent and
consistent with reality( Everard et al. 2004)

10. There are four type of decision
making (Everard et al 2004)
 Autocratic – the leader will make the decision without
consulting other and they are expected to accept the
decision once the decision has been made
 Persuasive the leader will initially make the decision,
and following that will persuade other to accept the
decision
 Consultative – the leader seeks views from other
before making the decision.
 Co-determinate – decision taken based on consensus
or majority vote.

11. The Decision Making Process
 Regardless of the types of decision made,
there are several steps that can be followed
(Gorton and Alston 2009, 36)
Step 1: Define the situation
Step 2: identify the alternative
Step 3: Assess the alternative
Step 4: Select the best possible alternative
Step 5: Secure acceptance of the decision
Step 6: Implement the decision
Step 7: Evaluate the decision

12.  Hoy and Miskel (2005) describe decision making as a
dynamic process that is required to solve organizational
problem. They propose five different model of decision
making. The model are
 The classical model which uses a strategy to maximize goal
achievement
 The administrative model which is viewed as a pragmatic
decision making strategy. This approach is normally chosen
because an administrator does not have all the capacity to
optimize decision making
 The incremental model which approaches decision making
by comparing and reducing the numbers of alternatives.

13. Thank you….
 The mixed scanning model which is considered
as a adaptive strategy focusing on board ends
and tentative means of decisions. This approach
combines the best of the incremental and the
administrative approaches in decision making.
 The garbage can model which is considered as a
non rational decision making strategy that views
a good decision as one that match the problem
with a solution because organizations are
characterized by problematic preferences,
ambiguity, and decision relies on chance that on
rationality