Create Effective Leadership Practices: Leadership Team Rating & Reflection Activity
We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order. This is no surprise, given that for most of its written history, leadership has been defined in terms of its control functions.
– Margaret J. Wheatley
INTRO
This activity will help your team reflect on and identify effective leadership practices that will support the elevation and inclusion of stakeholder voices.
What leadership practices are most effective in your work?
When do you prioritize using those practices most often?
OBJECTIVES
- Reflect on how often your leadership team is operating in effective 21st-century leadership roles – visionary, architect, coach, and catalyst – and write down ideas you have for leading more often using this approach.
The below activity is designed for your leadership team after you’ve engaged in this assessment process yourself.
Take several minutes to reflect on your most effective leadership practices.
Reflect on which ones have been most important to you personally, professionally, and to the school as a whole.
Use this reflection tool to determine the leadership roles you are using effectively, and the ones that you need to focus on using more often.
Discuss and work together to agree on a rating as a team. Provide evidence as to whether your school is employing effective leadership practices schoolwide using the following definition and scale:
Effective leadership practices use inclusive, collaborative, decision-making processes; support a culture of continuous improvement; support the development of the school’s conditions and climate for learning; and build instructional capacity.
SCALE
1. Not at all
2. Somewhat
3. For the most part
4. Totally
A score of one reflects that there is little being done intentionally schoolwide. A four would suggest that you have explicit structures and practices schoolwide to support this.
TIPS
- Have your team show their ratings all at once using their fingers (we use the game RO SHAM BO when we work with teams). Then have the team members with the highest and lowest ratings share their thoughts first to get the perspectives that are most different. Then through the discussion, reach a consensus on one rating as a group.
Responses