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© Timothy D. Kanold

PLC 2012 Institute Living in the FLOW of your PLC

Leadership Life! The reality is that on most days your leadership work exhausts you. You are trying really hard… Your true leadership work, is to train in the disciplines that will enable you to lead well, and that will transform who you are as a PLC school leader.

Timothy D. Kanold tkanold.blogspot.com Twitter.com/#tkanold


“Be, Know, Do!”

When did you decide that you wanted to BE a leader, teacher and an influencer of other adults?


PLC Leadership Disciplines:

  A set of actions you intentionally practice, through continuous training, to improve your ability to lead.

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1 Vision

2 Action

3 Plusing

4 Energy

5 Inspiring


Discipline of Service and Sharing

Better at …


Discipline of Reflection and Balance

Better at …

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Is Your Positive and High Energy Relational Intelligence Important?

Kouzes and Posner (2006)

The single best predictor of career success…

Is the quality of your relationship with your very first supervisor



Rath and Conchie (2008)

Weaknesses: 9%

Strengths: 73%

Full Engagement



Pheffer and Sutton (2008)

75% report the worse aspect of the job is their

Immediate supervisor…



Pheffer and Sutton (2008)

Poor relational leaders will drive motivated workers out of the profession, or even worse cause them to withhold discretionary effort…


Discipline of Service and Sharing

The leadership work of…


Is Your Positive High Relational Energy Important?

 Daniel Goleman… You are to foster a relational capacity

among the various adults in your sphere, recognizing when it is low,

and if so, providing immediate feedback for improvement.

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You and I are wired up to connect with others…

Nourishing relationships have a beneficial impact on our health, while toxic ones can act like slow poison to our bodies” (p. 5).


You and I are wired up to connect with others…

“how we connect with others has unimagined significance…. In effect, being chronically hurt and angered, or being emotionally nourished by someone we spend time with daily over the course of years can refashion our brain” (p. 11).


Improving Your Relational Intelligence

  On page 1 – rate yourself 1-10 on the Four factors of emotional intelligence

  When you are ready, let’s do a “Feet Meet and Greet”!

…choose one of these and discuss how you might improve…


FLOW

The best moments of our lives are not the passive receptive, relaxing times –

although such experiences can be enjoyable. The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind are stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult

and worthwhile. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi


The Flow Channel


The Flow Channel

Place a mark (label the mark) for each grade level or course based learning team in your school or district that you lead or are a part of…

Identify all Teams that fall in each category – T1- T4.

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PLC FLOW Strategies (Backside of the Flow Chart)

 1. Establish Clear goals: Are expectations and goals attainable? Do they align appropriately with the skill set and abilities of the team?


PLC FLOW Strategies

 2. Limited number of goals: Is there a high degree of team concentration on a limited number of tasks?


PLC FLOW Strategies

  3. Direct and immediate feedback: How will the team receive feedback on what is working and not working - successes and failures - during the course of implementing team required tasks? Does the team have a “Formative Way” to adjust their work on the task actions throughout the school year?


PLC FLOW Strategies

 4. Balance: How will the Team leader measure the teams’ ability or knowledge and skill level against the challenge level of the task? How is this issue monitored throughout the school year?


PLC FLOW Strategies

 5. Autonomy: Does the team have a sense of personal control over how to perform the task or activity? The activity must become intrinsically rewarding, in order to create an effortlessness of action by the team.


Moving Teams into the FLOW Channel…

 Using your team FLOW diagnostic chart…

  Identify Your 2012-2013 actions that might help to improve a teams’ position along the FLOW Channel…

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Is Your Positive High Relational Energy Important?


Discipline of Reflection and Balance

Better at …


The Art of Full Engagement in Your Work…

Are you in an energy crisis?

Faulty assumption thinking…

“The because I can syndrome”…


Living the Quadrant I and II Life!

Read Section III Highlight what connects for you…

Use a “First Word- Last Word” to shoulder partner share…


Negative Energy

Low Energy

High Energy

Positive Energy

Quadrant I High Positive Helpful Hopeful Joyful Connected Confident

Quadrant IV Low Negative Depressed Exhausted Burned Out Hopeless Defeated

Quadrant III High Negative Angry Fearful Anxious Defensive Resentful

Quadrant II Low Positive Reflective Serene Relaxed Tranquil Peaceful

Full Engagement and in the FLOW ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈


Signs I am drifting into Quadrant III

  Constant impatience – lots of physical tension

  Relationships lack depth – weak connections with family and friends

  Lack of passion – undermines persistence and commitment

  Lack of time – constantly late and unable to keep up with tasks

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Avoiding Quadrants III and IV 1) Hang out with exceptionally inspiring

people 2)  Participate in events that are

exceptionally inspiring to me 3)  Pay attention to my physical disciplines and how I multi-task


Avoiding Quadrants III and IV The Red Queen Effect… “it takes all the

running you can do to stay in the same place”


Avoiding Quadrants III and IV 4) Pay attention to my working

environment 5) Have an inspiring recreation outside

of my work world


Too much time in QI or QIII will send you into Q IV!

  Your legacy goal to be your best as a teacher and leader is internal balance – being fully engaged in Quadrant I while strategically engaging in Quadrant II activity…

And only YOU can know what this is for you…


The Stakes Are High

Failure to create a culture of reflection and internal balance will leave too many members of the PLC stranded in Quadrants III and IV…

They will be ineffective in their jobs, they will be difficult to be around, they will be toxic to the improvement of the school as a whole… —and no one will notice


Living in the Flow of your PLC Leadership Life!

The reality is that on most days your leadership work exhausts you. You are trying really hard… Your true leadership work, is to train in the disciplines that will enable you to lead well, and that will transform who you are as a PLC school leader.

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