Marian College Leadership Team 2009

Leadership and Change:Leadership Team Roles for 2009

Lawrie Drysdale

Leadership

• Think of a leader you most admire.

• List the personal qualities that characterise this leader

Knowing Your Role in the Show

Map of the Tube in London

Map of Hong Kong Underground

Understanding Your Role

• Your role is a foundation or grounding for what is required.

• It shows how you fit into the organisation.

• It helps define your work relationship with your employer.

• It indicates what is expected.

Knowing where you are

Mapping your organisation

• Map your organisation– Show how you see the organisation– Show where you fit into the organisation

Understanding your role

• Outline the tensions and issues of your role

Perceived Tensions in the role• Being a meat-in-the-

sandwich

• Acting as gatekeeper

• Having to do a balancing act with people and priorities

Role tensions

• Hands tied

• Being out on a limb

• Walking a fine line

Taking a risk

• Stepping outside

• Defending : ideas, the school, teachers, students, principal

• Acting as a referee

Taking risks

• Jumping through flames for staff

• Jumping off the deep end

• Pulling in different directions

Key questions

• What does the organisation want you to do? • What are your responsibilities?• What do you need in order to do the job (skills,

qualifications, resources)?• What are the expected results? Outcomes• How will you know if you have succeeded?• How can you measure your achievements?

Making the best of your role as Team Leader

• Developing your leadership role

• Making a difference

• Having an impact

• Enhancing your skills

Goals• What are your goals for your

role?• short term? long term?• How do they fit in with the

school’s goals?• How are you going to share

your goals with your team?• How can your team members

also develop goals?

Guiding conceptions of leadership

Leadership actions in the five key areas

Area 1

Area 2Area 3

Area 4

Area 5

CEO Leadership Framework

CEO Leadership Framework

• leadership • management

Leaders or managers?

Is leadership different to management?

Leaders or Managers ?

Leadership– setting a direction

– aligning people

– motivating

Leaders or Managers?

Management– planning and budgeting

– organising and staffing

– controlling and problem solving

Making the role

• ...we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it – but we must sail, and not drift, not lie at anchor.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Dare to be different

Total Role Concept Role Concept

Total Role Concept

Core Role

Expected Role

Augmented Role

Potential Role More

Tangible than Intangible

Management

More Intangible than Tangible

Leadership

Leadership Style

B. Leadership Role dominates

A. Management Role Dominates

generic

expected

potential

augmented

Challenge

Let the role dominateyou

You dominate the role

Taking responsibility

• People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.

–George Bernard Shaw

• You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do

Henry Ford

Building relationship

• Knowing yourself – self leadership

• Before you lead others you must lead yourself

Roles

• What is my role?

• What are my goals (long and short)

• How am I going to achieve them?

Creating a vision

• Create a vision for your role

• What do you need to get there?

Managing up

• Set your own goals- and do self assessment

• Ask for feedback