As the new year started, one of the issues we faced in our school was the bringing together of a new leadership team. Should we be using a traditional leadership model?
Each of us brings our own strengths and ideas to the table. The question is, “how do we bring our collective strengths together to create a leadership model that works best in our current educational climate and is resilient enough to weather the long term?” We recognize that there is a need to collaborate and come up with a democratic approach that works best for our team and our school.
We agree that the right thing to do is to implement a leadership model that is fluid, one that best fits our current situation – a model that recognizes that leadership can be found anywhere in the building… Situational Leadership (Hersey and Blanchard). When do you make the decision to use and/or modify a certain model? We agree that this decision has to be based on context. There needs to be an underlying guiding belief that the model will change over time.
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