Tony, I really enjoyed reading your answer and have a lot of the same opinions and views on leadership. Principals get rewarded in a variety of different ways from managing adequately from all stakeholders on any given day. Although, on a very tiny scale I was able to get some experience with this by being our “head teacher” and having to fulfill some of these obligations for a number of days during the school year. I found that the best days were when the day was not interrupted due to the absence of our principal and things went on as if the principal was present on that day. Poor leadership qualities most certainly wash away the possibility of building goals being reached. One of my favorite movies of all time is Remember the Titans and there is a movie quote in that movie that speaks volumes. The quote is “Attitude Reflects Leadership” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUyESAyELXY. If the attitude of the principal is one of positivity and hopefulness it is going to be reflected by teachers, students, and all stakeholders of a given school. A staff that is divided is detrimental to the entire organization and this could be from failing to be a good leader. As stakeholders hold a principal accountable for the entire school there is no way that the stakeholders will ever trust a system if they feel like the system doesn’t trust them as a parent. Principals get rewarded for effectively utilizing both aspects. Managing adequately ensures that unwanted occurrences are minimized due to things running smoothly. Stakeholders enjoy knowing that their day will not be interrupted or changed due to poor managing. These individuals appreciate consistency in knowing what to expect. However, managing without quality leadership is likely to have negative effects such as few or no building goals being reached, understood, or even created. Individual teachers and departments need to have leadership in order to come together as a single unit for the purpose of creating, understanding, implementing and reaching reasonable goals. Another unwanted effect due to a lack of leadership might be busy days. Good leading brings others together as a focused team which will allow tasks to be managed by those who understand the overall goals and missions of the team. This will alleviate some of time spent by the principal being a manager. Failing to be a good leader intuitively looks bad. Most stakeholders lack respect for a poor leader just because they are in a leader’s position (principal) and are not fulfilling that position. Divisivity with colleagues and community as well as a lack of or misunderstood purpose also are controlled by good leadership. Stakeholders hold the principal accountable if these things aren’t appropriately dealt with. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: < http://listserv.ohio.edu/pipermail/ous-lp-rp13/attachments/20180611/f22d97a5/attachment.html >
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