(Linguistics) EXAM STUDY GUIDE RATED A
WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY.
8 elements of action for a change leader
✔✔1. Understand the Nature of the Change
2. Make the Case and Create Urgency
3. Begin with a Vision for Change and Communicate it
4. Create Coherence
5. Understand How Change Affects Others
6. Spread Success
7. Incorporate Change into the School Culture
8. Focus on Personal Leadership
Appreciative Inquiry (AI)
✔✔focuses on finding the best in people and working together to achieve a
jointly constructed and shared purpose, vision, and goal. Discovery, Dream,
Design, and Destiny. AI is suggested to result in transformational change
only if it addresses problems of real concern of staff. Identifying the
negative may not be generational but it may still have a place in the overall
AI and leadership process.
the constructivist principle
✔✔this principle, is to know and understand an organization as a human
construction, as ever changing, and is 'how' one knows an organization
,Principle of simultaneity
✔✔the questions we ask and the changes we make are not separate
moments but are considered to be simultaneous.
Poetic Principle
✔✔we can choose how to perceive situations (glass half full)organization is
much like an emerging book
Anticipatory principle
✔✔Positive questions and reflections stem from positive anticipation of the
future. (Step 2 of AI)
Positive Principle (AI)
✔✔Positive affect, caring, shared meaning, and purpose fuel change
efforts.
Empirical-Rational
✔✔leaders do not have to be coercive; they simply present the necessary
information regarding the desired change
Normative-Re-educative
✔✔Group activities are initiated to bring about changes in the norms of the
group through changes in attitudes, values, skills, and relationships. This
strategy facilitates the desired change being made by the group without the
leader applying strong pressure.
, Power-coercive strategy
✔✔managing strategy that assumes that people will listen to authority
figures & do as they are told to do.
*example- only choosing the path that a manager wants you to follow
eight elements essential for leading sustainable innovation efforts
✔✔Element 1: Public Service with a Moral Purpose
Element 2: Commitment to Changing Context at All Levels
Element 3: Lateral Capacity Building through Networks
Element 4: Intelligent Accountability and Vertical Relationships
Element 5: Deep Learning
Element 6: Dual Commitments to Short-term and Long-term Results
Element 7: Cyclical Energizing
Element 8: The Long Lever of Leadership
educational leadership values
✔✔Common values might include, but are not limited to, honesty,
transparency, flexibility, collaboration, perseverance, and respect for
diversity. Critical connections for future educational leaders should tie in to
a willingness to work as a team in a shared model of leadership.
Transparency and honesty build trust, so members of the organization
understand why decisions are made and how they connect to the overall
mission and vision. Flexibility as change is a constant in education through
technology evolutions and new learning theories to support required
inclusive environments. The essence of perseverance is understanding that
educational leadership is about being able to overcome challenges and
problems that are unique to each individual student.