Leadership Through Empowerment

Ray McNulty, PresidentInternational Center for Leadership in Education

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Leadership Through Empowerment

Raymond J. McNulty, President

International Center for Leadership in Education

Why Empowerment?

• Aren’t the leaders trained to do this leadership stuff?

• Don’t complex problems demand a complex set of specialists to solve them?

• I am a teacher, parent, student, community person, business person.. ……I have my role you have yours!

Expertise can sometimes be a road block to problem solving.

Experts see their points as critical to resolution, without

sometimes valuing the thinking of others.

-Shurnyu Suzuki

“In the beginner’s mind there are many

possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.”

Why good spread sheets make bad strategies.

We live in a world obsessed with science, predictability and

control.

If we can’t measure it, it doesn’t count!

We must consider the possibility that if we can’t measure

something, it might be the very most important thing!

Mary Dunn’s kindergarten is a busy place. While she works with John in one corner of the room, Sally spills her paints in another. Sally begins to cry softly. Linda, another student, comes over to Sally, puts her arm around her, and then helps to clean up the paint.

Poll the audience

Principal Arlene Gore always includes a session in her faculty meetings for teachers to raise issues. Today, Chuck Green complains about how the students don’t move along in the hallways between classes. This causes large groups blocking the way, loud rough housing, and potential intimidation for younger students. Arlene asks everyone to take a few minutes to write down why he or she thinks students behave in this way. After sharing in small groups and then in the full group, about six

teachers volunteer to form a team to study the situation. One teacher suggests that one or two of the worst offending students be invited to work with the team. This idea meets with a mixed reaction.

Agenda

• Role of Empowerment

• Self-Knowledge, Vision, Mission

• Relationship Climate

• Courage

• Conflict Resolution

Agenda

• Role of Empowerment

Instruction and Empowerment

Quad D

• Students say, “I got it!”

• Teachers facilitate the learning….

• Students commit it to memory

School leadership is a disposition for taking action.

Quadrant D Leadership is the collaborative responsibility

for taking action.

Quad D Leadership cannot be implemented unless people

are empowered to act.

Developing teachers’ and students’ capacities is

clearly important.

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EmpowermentEmpowerment

VisionVision

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Quad D Leadership FrameworkQuad D Leadership Framework

KNOWLEDGE

A B

DC

AuthoritativeLeadership

Four Quadrants of Leadership

Collaborative Leadership

VisionaryLeadership

Adaptive Leadership

HighLow

Low

High

APPLICATION

KNOWLEDGE

AA BB

DDCC

Four Quadrants of Leadership

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APPLICATION

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Increasing Staff Leadership

Increasing Student Leadership

Quadrant D LeadershipIncreasing from A/C to B/D

• Create and empower leadership teams around groups of students and school functions.

• Facilitate team building activities• Listen and validate ideas from others.• Be open to new possibilities.• Be willing to credit others for success.• Involve and listen to students in school

practices.• Consistently tap and develop future

school leaders

What does empowerment look like at the highest levels?

Talking with kids…

It’s not us against them!

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Empowering the students

Day of Pink: A day to stand against bullying, harassment, and discrimination

Period 1 Day of Pink is a day of action, born when a youth in a high school in Cambridge, Nova Scotia was bullied because he wore a pink shirt to school.

His fellow students decided to stand up to bullying; and hundreds of students came to

school wearing pink to show support for diversity and stopping discrimination.

What do you feel makes you different or unique?

Have you ever felt this puts you at risk for being bullied or harassed?

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Empowering the studentsQuick-Writes: (3-5 minute writings)• Describe a time you have been made fun of or

harassed for being or looking different. How did you deal with it?

• Have you ever teased or made fun of someone for being or looking different, or witnessed someone else doing this and didn’t speak up? Write about why you think you did that, and thinking back, what should you have done?

Quad D leadership is self- maintaining through the

empowerment of everyone, creating leadership density

CULTURE TRUMPS STRATEGY

Sustainability is about the relationship between people, their purpose and their place.

What Works Best to Empower?

• REQUIRE

• MANDATE

• FORCE

• EXCITE

• CREATE PASSION

• MOTIVATE

Quadrant D Leaders function in each

quadrant, continually striving to influence

school stakeholders to spend most of their time in Quadrant D.

AA BB

DDCC

Quad D Leadership Quad D Leadership FrameworkFramework

High

HighLow

Low

8 Key Empowerment Points• Tell me my role, tell me what to do and

give me the rules

• Discipline those who are out of line

• Get me excited

• Don’t forget to praise

• Don’t scare me

• Impress me

• Give me some autonomy

• Set me up to winMelissaRaffoni

Agenda

• Role of Empowerment

• Self-Knowledge, Vision, Mission

Leaders (position type) must know a lot about themselves

before they can empower others.

What are your…

• Beliefs and Values

• Prejudices

• Fears

• Skills

• Weaknesses

When you know yourself, you can begin to embrace a process to establish a mission, vision and

set of values.

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VisionVision

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MISSION

• WHY WE EXIST….

VISION

• WHAT WE WANT TO BE…

VALUES

• HOW WE WILL ACT…

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• Is it ethical?

• Can we afford it?

• Will it improve student performance?

• Will it improve student satisfaction?

• Will it improve staff satisfaction?

• Will it improve stakeholder satisfaction?

Agenda

• Role of Empowerment

• Self-Knowledge, Vision, Mission

• Relationship Climate

Being honest and supportive is empowering to self and others

Respect the empowered people. Things will go wrong. Laugh and

move on.

Agenda

• Role of Empowerment

• Self-Knowledge, Vision, Mission

• Relationship Climate

• Courage

Courage

• Be true to your beliefs.

• Leadership takes heart and stomach.

• If you empower them to lead, then trust them to lead.

Agenda

• Role of Empowerment

• Self Knowledge, Vision, Mission

• Relationship Climate

• Courage

• Conflict Resolution

Conflict Resolution

• Be clear who will have the final say.

• Seek advice, opinions and data.

• Do they need training in consensus and decision making?

What Is Consensus?

Consensus is…

• Finding a proposal acceptable enough that all members can support it .

• No member opposes it.

Is not…

• A unanimous vote – a consensus may not represent everyone’s first priorities.

• A majority vote – in a majority vote, only the majority gets something they are happy with.

• Everyone totally satisfied.

Requires…

• Time• Active participation of all group

members• Skills in communication: listening,

conflict resolution, discussion facilitation

• Creating thinking and open-mindedness

Decision FunnelLay out process and

criteria by which decisions are to be reached.

Embrace the decisions.

1Accept responsibility for decision-making

process.

Participation and acknowledgement

of consensual process.

2

Work on outcome till it feels right. Embrace the

decision.

Listen and discuss participant’s input. Make decision.

3Active

participation. Voice opinions.

Support decision.

Listen to input. Make clear decisions. 4

Voice opinions on time.

Give a direct

command.

5Listen

carefully.

Time

Needed

Commitment

To Decision

Manager/Leader Level Team Member

Should we allow cell phones in school?

How you ask a question is important?

Ask open ended questions rather than yes or no

questions.

Such as, why do you suppose students want to use their cell

phones?

Closing Thought

• Coherent Vision

• Instructional Leadership

• Empowerment

• Goal Focus• Decisions Based on Reliable Data

• Curriculum and Instruction• Professional Development• Fidelity of Implementation

• Trust• Communication• Relationships

Leadership Leverage Points

Leadership Through Empowerment

Raymond J. McNulty, President

International Center for Leadership in Education

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