Monday Moanin Thoughts #138 Focus On Being Effective

Being a leader in todays schools is a difficult challenge. There are mandates, shrinking resources, learning gaps, new supervisors,  and state legislatures to deal with. These challenges can cause you to lose confidence and momentum. Listed below are ten strategies that may be helpful in keeping you on track and improving your effectiveness as a leader. Consider using as many of these as you can and see if they help enhance your performance. In no particular order, here they are :

1. State and restate your vision often.

2. Give consistent, respectful feedback to your students and staff.

3. Focus on teaching and learning.

4. Encourage your staff to participate in Instructional Support Teams. Peer to peer sharing is critical to enhancing practice in classrooms.

5. Fill other’s buckets by improving your communication.

6. Be well planned and in control of your time.

7. Lead by doing, take action.

8. Establish an online community.

9. Find the joy in your job and stay positive.

10. Focus on your strengths.

Quote of the week:

You can’t do it alone. Leadership is not a solo act, it’s a team performance. The winning strategies  will be based upon the “we not “I” philosophy. Collaboration is s social  imperative. Without it people can’t get extraordinary things done in organizations.” Kouzes and Posner, 2003, p.22

Have a great week and keep finding the good stuff.