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Title: How to be a Fireball Leader Without Getting Singed


1
How to be a Fireball Leader Without Getting
Singed
  • Dr. David B. Ross
  • Nova Southeastern University

2
Why Are We Here?
  • Share thoughts to lead a Charter School
  • Unique differences in Charter Schools
  • What are the stressors of leading a Charter
    School
  • What can we do about disruption Prepare possible
    solutions

3
Unique Differences
  • Multi-tasking environment
  • Shortage of personnel
  • doing more with less
  • Parental expectations
  • Public expectations
  • Different needs according to your customer
  • Beginning teacher programs
  • Size of school
  • Training availability like the public district
  • State certification and experience
  • Unions and contracts

4
stressors
  • Unable to do-it-all
  • limited personnel
  • meetings
  • Funding and added expenses
  • mismanagement of funds
  • transportation
  • food service
  • facilities
  • Student Achievement
  • school grade
  • follow ESE/ESOL accommodations (hire outside)
  • Lack of trained personnel (based on public
    districts agreement)
  • Public image
  • Please the Governing Board Authorizers (mission
    and vision)

5
Characteristics of Disruption
  • Ignore issues occurring in your school
  • Poor preparation No agendas
  • Personal agendas
  • cannot have different ideas and direction
  • must be consistent
  • condition the school culture
  • Allow people to fail school fails

6
A Whack On The Side Of The Head
  • Penalty of leadership look at yourself
  • Your leadership style
  • Ability to communicate effectively
  • Ability to organize time
  • Know your limitations
  • do not be afraid to ask
  • you cannot do it alone
  • Situational Leadership
  • Herrmann Brain Dominance

7
Situational leadership
  • A situational leader is one who can adopt
    different leadership styles depending on the
    situation
  • Directing
  • Coaching
  • Encouraging
  • Delegating

8
Herrmann Brain dominance
  • The Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI) is
    a system claimed to measure and describe thinking
    preferences in people, developed by William
    Herrmann
  • Analytical thinking
  • Sequential thinking
  • Interpersonal thinking
  • Imaginative thinking

9
Impact of Thinking Styles
  • BRAIN DOMINANCE
  • Thinking Style Preferences
  • What we pay attention to
  • What we learn best
  • What motivates us
  • How we communicate
  • How we do what we do
  • How we make decisions
  • What we are successful at
  • How we interact with the world

How Brain Dominance Leads to Bottom Line
Outcomes in Business, Learning and Life
10
Whole Brain Model
D
A
Logical Analytical Fact Based Quantitative
Holistic Intuitive Integrating Synthesizing
Interpersonal Feeling Based Kinesthetic Emotional
Organized Sequential Planned Detailed
B
C
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12
Our Personal Share of the Four Selves
Finding the Way
Knowing the Facts
Make it Happen
Dealing with Feelings
13
Do you play well with others
  • Power of influence Sharing the process
  • information
  • expertise
  • referent
  • reward
  • Systems Approach Peter Senge
  • systems bring together or combine to produce a
    result
  • focus on the whole rather than parts
  • the discipline that integrates the others, fusing
    them into a coherent body
  • Theory Fast Ball the Millwright Died

14
Solutions
  • Place emphasis on the students
  • Be proactive and know your effective facilitators
  • Build trust
  • Allow experts to be experts
  • Condition the school culture
  • Run the school like a commercial
  • product, fun, memorable
  • Share power
  • let it go! Do not waste valuable time
  • reward human capital
  • Understand change occurs over time
  • Bad ideas at one time are

15
The beginning
  • Share your thoughts and comments!

16
references
  • Canton, J. (2006). The extreme future The top
    trends that will reshape the world for the next
    5, 10 and 20 years. New York, NY The Penguin
    Group.
  • Cornish, E. (2004). Futuring The exploration of
    the future. Bethesda, MD World Future Society.
  • De Pree, M. (1989). Leadership is an art. New
    York, NY Dell Publishing.
  • Naisbitt, J. (2006). Mind sets. New York, NY
    Harper Collins Publishing.
  • Senge, P. (1990). The fifth discipline The art
    and practice of the learning organization.
    Doubleday.
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