Leading People

In a culture of change

Agenda

1. Introduction

2. Leadership in schools

2

Leadership 1

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Michiel Adriaenszn de Ruyter

• “And when they told me to hoist te flag of our country on a single ship, and so to go on the sea, I would do that and risk my life for the men of de States General”.

• [Michiel Adriaenszn de Ruyter, 1676]

• M.A. de Ruyter was both a very great leader and a great follower.

• He was able to inspire and motivate his people with a highly innovativeleadershipstyle for that time.

• He was like a father for his crew and made them partaker of his strategies

Nelson Mandela

Who is yourgreat leader?

Christian Leadership

• Psalms 23:

– The Lord is my shepherd.

– He lets me rest, He leads me, He renews, He guides me.

– His rod and his staff protect and comfort me

• Isaiah 53:

– He was led like a lamb to the slaughter

– And as a sheep in silent before the shearers

– He did not open His mouth

Mark 10:45“For even the Son of Man camenot to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Christian identity:

- living in a broken world.- entirely dependent

Christian perspective on leadership

Leadership 2

• Many books, more articles an very many opinions about leadership

• “In Dutch Education we have too much managers and too few school leaders ”

[Meta Krüger, 2010]

• How do school leaders perceive the relationship between data driven and religious based education

Education requires Leadership

• 3 levels of interaction:

– Interaction between

• Teachers and students

• Managers and teachers

• Governance and managers

– All processes are at the service

of the primary process: education

students

teachers

managers

governance

Collective ambition

CollectiveAmbition

• A summary of how leaders and employees thinkabout why they exist, what they hope to accomplishand how they will colaborate to achieve theirambition.

• [Harvard Business Review, december 2011

8 aspects of Leadership

A leader:

1. develops with his employees a collective ambition and update these periodically

2. inspires employees and involves them in the strategy

3. communicate timely and honest, is thoughtfulness and listens, is present

4. is clear about the result and gives feedback

5. acts assertively on to people who aren't (no more longer) good at their job

6. dares to function as a heat shield for the noise of 'top' and 'side'

7. has an authoritative but also serving and humble attitude

8. brings into flow, so that increase knowledge and job satisfaction

“A manager does things right, a leader does the right things”

w.p.poppe@driestar-educatief.nl