Brandy, I love the point that you made about managers needing to take an authoritarian position to ensure that their school/district performs to their utmost potential without having to micromanage every single thing that is occurring. I believe that administrators begin to get beat down and lose their love for their career when trying to accomplish everything on their own. I think that a mark of a good manager is being able to look at certain aspects or tasks and delegate the “smaller” (as we all know that nothing is small or unimportant in education) or less significant tasks to an assistants or other willing and reliable staff members. I also like your statement, as I also made the same in my answer, about leaders leading by example. If the staff sees you working to achieve a certain goal, then they will be more eager to jump in or take initiative to meet the same or different goal. However, I agree for an administrator to be as successful as possible, they need to have a handle on both of these aspects. Your take on the fact that you think that managers need to be able to communicate positively and effectively with the stakeholders in order to ensure their support is great. In addition to the point, I also believe that stakeholders want to see managers communicating effectively with their employees. Because communication can be one of the keys to making the business or in our case the school run like a “well oiled machine”. To be an effective administrator you must address the managerial and leadership aspects of your job. On the managerial side; administrators have subordinates (assistants, teachers, school personnel) that they rely on to make sure the necessary tasks are carried out fully and in a timely manner. As "managers" is it an administrators job to take an authoritarian position to ensure that their school/district is running smoothly without having to micromanage what is being done on a day to day basis. On the leadership side of being an administrator you must lead by example and collaborate with everyone involved (faculty, students, families, community) to achieve certain goals. Being an administrator means taking aspects from the managerial side and the leadership side depending on the situation. It is imperative that effective administrators use various aspects from both sides to be successful. Stakeholders are one of the major key components in schools; without these people the school would not be able to run like a "well-oiled machine". Stakeholders expect administrators to be authoritative and "get the job done". Being a manager means being able to communicate positively and effectively with the stakeholders. Stakeholders also expect administrators to be leaders. School superintendents, principals, assistant principals etc. are the key to a good school and good community. They are expected to lead by example. Stakeholders often do not take well to being told what to do, but would rather be led to achieve the desired goal. Brandy Bruce Graduate Student Ohio University Southern Campus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: < http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/ous-lp-rp13/attachments/20180610/ccd6ab8e/attachment.html >
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