LEADERSHIP BACKGROUND

AND
EXPERIENCE
 LEADERSHIP BACKGROUND AND
EXPERIENCE
 ADLI ALIMI BIN ABDUL RAHMAN is the Secretary of The Parent
and Teacher Association (PTA), the school prefect’s teacher and
the advisor of the Junior Doctor Club.
 I like to use democratic and path-goal leadership styles to
make my lesson a fun lesson. I want my pupils to learn by
themselves and cherries the knowledge they gained.
 But sometimes I were forced to use autocratic leadership style
to make sure my learning objectives were achieved. It is due to
sometime my pupils react over the limit and disturb the
learning process.
LEADERSHIP BACKGROUND AND
EXPERIENCE
 Hartini Ahmad is a pre school teacher at primary
school since 2007.
 The first week, I found difficulties to make sure
children listened with my instruction in the
classroom.
 Then i discovered that i had to take different
approaches to handle the children easily. I used
democratic style.We will enjoy the learning happily in
the class without bounderies.
LEADERSHIP BACKGROUND AND
EXPERIENCE
 I found that children likely enjoy because they exposed
learning at the sametimes when playing together like in
game.
 However, i think i must use autocratic style sometimes. It
helped me in controlling the stuborn children. So, they
quit little bit listen to me and follow my instruction given
to them.
 During the 4 years, I found that leadership style i used in
teaching and learning make me faced with global children
today smoothly, efficiently and effectively which lastly
producing good quality children next day.
LEADERSHIP BACKGROUND AND
EXPERIENCE
 Nurul Atikah bt Noor Azamin, the teachers of School
Prefect and teachers Advisor of Police Cadet for afternoon
session.
 I've always worked with other teachers. In addition, I also
give instructions to the prefect to ensure that the school
disciplinary is committed.
 Therefore, I've been using the system of democracy in
making all solutions. Usually the teachers will discuss
together before making any decision related to school
discipline.
LEADERSHIP BACKGROUND AND
EXPERIENCE
Meanwhile, for police cadets, I also prefer to
adopt a democratic system because I will join
police cadet teacher advisor for the morning
session. Usually we will discuss before a decision
is made because it involves many parties.
LEADERSHIP BACKGROUND AND
EXPERIENCE
Rohani binti Ahmad- involved in co-ordinator of
uniform unit and teacher librarian.
I used democratic style because can invites co
operation among members , discussion, sharing
ideas, views and opinion. Can build creativityof
others, make discussion togethers, two way
communicate reduce conflict and increase work
efficiency
LEADERSHIP BACKGROUND AND
EXPERIENCE
Siti Rozaimah Binti Bakhtiar is a counseling
teacher at Maahad Tahfiz Sains Darul Aman,
Kulim Kedah since 2012.
 Democratic leadership style
sharing and learning from other experiences
 Autocratic leadership style
Making decision
NAME OF OUR LEADERSHIP
PARADIGM
 WHAT IS LEADERSHIP?
It is a process by which one person influences the
thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors of others.
Leaders set a direction for the rest of us; they help
us see what lies ahead; they help us visualize what
we might achieve; they encourage us and inspire us.
D. Quinn Mills , 2005
 WHAT IS LEADERSHIP?
A leader is one or more people who selects, equips,
trains, and influences one or more follower(s) who
have diverse gifts, abilities, and skills and focuses
the follower(s) to the organization’s mission and
objectives causing the follower(s) to willingly and
enthusiastically expend spiritual, emotional, and
physical energy in a concerted coordinated effort to
achieve the organizational mission and objectives.
The Ant Leadership Paradigm is a set of leadership style and
characteristic display by the ants that can be learn by us to
make our organization excel in future.
This paradigm focus on team work and what a small creature
or a small organization can achieve by using the style and
characteristic of the ants.
The aim of this paradigm is to explore the true nature of ants
so that we can benefit from all of the great characteristics of
ants.
 “ONE FOR ALL & ALL FOR ONE”
 The leader is the source of strength in the organization as the
queen ant to its colony. The leader reflect the whole
organizations as he/she is the main policy maker of the
organizations.
 At the same time, the leader must take care their followers as
they are the heart of the organization. There is no leader if
there is no followers. A good leader will take care his/her
follower as they own family.
 The great leader according to our paradigm is the one who is
able to connect tightly with his/her follower and influence
them to achieve the organizational goal. He/she will do it
together with the follower with very great teamwork and
cooperation.
 The life of Ants
 Like all insects, ants have six legs. Each leg has three joints. The legs of
the ant are very strong so they can run very quickly. If a man could run
as fast for his size as an ant can, he could run as fast as a racehorse. Ants
can lift 20 times their own body weight. An ant brain has about 250 000
brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants
has collectively the same size brain as a human.
 The job of the queen is to lay eggs which the worker ants look after.
Worker ants are sterile, they look for food, look after the young, and
defend the nest from unwanted visitors. Ants are clean and tidy insects.
Some worker ants are given the job of taking the rubbish from the nest
and putting it outside in a special rubbish dump! Each colony of ants has
its own smell. In this way, intruders can be recognized immediately. Many
ants such as the common Red species have a sting which they use to
defend their nest.
 The life of Ants
 At night the worker ants move the eggs and larvae deep
into the nest to protect them from the cold. During the
daytime, the worker ants move the eggs and larvae of the
colony to the top of the nest so that they can be warmer. If a
worker ant has found a good source for food, it leaves a trail
of scent so that the other ants in the colony can find the
food. Army Ants are nomadic and they are always moving.
They carry their larvae and their eggs with them in a long
column.
 Shared/Team Leadership Theory
 Each ant is aware of their individual duty and does their part. Ants have
always captured the attention for their hard work and teamwork.
 Ants have learnt how to live together successfully in colonies and survive
in diverse habitat.
 Ants is team workers and work together in order to achieve something
great.
 Ants operate in a team together empowering to achieve more. A line of
ants keenly they diligently follow the ant in front.
 Visionary Leadership Theory
 Ants are driven by purpose. Having a clear long term
objective or goals.
 Ants prepare in their food in summer because they know
that there will be a time when there will be no food to find in
winter time. So they are constantly preparing for a season
which is yet to come upon them.
 Ants do not just eat on the spot even when they see a huge
chicken or sandwich, they try to carry the food to their ant
colony and save up for the rainy days.
 Path-Goal Leadership Theory
 The leader ant sources the food and leads the follower ants
to the food source.
 The leader ants appear to teach and repeatedly nudge the
follower ants.
 Ants are insects that wise, they know when to look for food,
when to rest, in the summer, the ants immediately seek food
and herd foods as much as possible, so that when the
season gone by and they cannot work, they still have a lot of
food reserves.
The effective Principal Attributes in Shared
Leadership
 Shared leadership is commonly thought of as the "serial
emergence" of multiple leaders over the life of a team,
stemming from interactions among team members in
which at least one team member tries to influence other
members or the team.
 Principal should ask the subordinates to work together
as a team and perform team work.
 Principal should focus more on the needs of the
subordinates than their own individual needs.
 The Characteristic of the Principal in
Shared Leadership
Teamwork
 The principal should focus on the team, rather him himself.
 Working for a benefit of self can be detrimental to the overall
performance of the team or the entire organization.
Highly social creatures
 The principal can practise how to make a decision and
communicate the fact that everyone’s opinion counts.
 So that, the principal can facilitates the productive discussion
with the other members.
 The effective Principal Attributes in
Distributed Leadership
 Distributed leadership is the sharing of leadership between
two or more individuals.
 Distributed leadership also primarily concerned with
mobilizing leadership at all levels in the organisation not just
relying on leadership from the top
 Principal needs to perform peer reviews all the time. They
teach each other to work and hold each other accountable
 Principal need to simply place the right teachers in the right
jobs
 The Characteristic of the Principal in
Distributed Leadership
Empowerment
 School administrators cannot be everywhere at one time. Principal distribute
the leadership power between two administrators, while other schools
involve teachers and parents, creating a group where there is no central
leader in charge.

Right person for the right job

 Distributing the leadership allows administrators to focus on a few areas and
really make an impact. They do a better job in a few areas than if they were over
numerous activities, administrative duties, and student and teacher
responsibilities. In return, administrators tend to find their jobs more fulfilling and
feel like they are actually making a difference.
 The effective Principal Attributes in Path-
Goal Leadership
 According to path-goal theory, leaders have a responsibility to
provide their subordinates with the information and support
necessary to achieve the work goals.
 Leaders can engage in behaviours that help subordinates facilitate
goal attainment. For example, principal can providing information
and other resources necessary for the teachers to obtain goals.
 Leaders can engage in behaviours that remove obstacles that
might hinder subordinates' pursuit of their goals. For instance
principal can remove workplace factors that reduce the chances of
goal attainment.
The Characteristic of the Principal in Path-
Goal Leadership
 Have vision and mission
 Principal should see the vision (intent) and agree with the mission and a strategy
that will take the organisation in a needed direction.
 Embedding change
 Embedding change in the organization drives innovation and productivity. So
that, the principal should embrace change to make the school goals achieved.

 Understanding
 Principal must recognize the needs of teachers and try to satisfy these needs through the
workplace, reward people for achieving their goals, help subordinates identify the most
effective paths they need to take to reach their goals, and clear those paths so that
subordinates can reach their goals.
ANT PARADIGM DISTRIBUTION
&
THE KEY PLAYERS
Queen Ants

Queen ants are the founders of all colonies. Once mated, she can stay fertilized for many

years laying millions of eggs. Some queens can lay thousands of eggs each day. They really are

egg laying machines. Queen ants also have the record for the longest living of all insects, ranging

from one to up to thirty years. After nuptial flight, in which winged sexual male and female ants

mate, a future queen faces the harrowing challenge of founding a new colony. As the worker

population increase, the queen’s careful attendance of the brood slackens and her primary role in

the colony becomes egg laying and remaining alive. Rather than standing to defend her only clutch

of brood queens now have a horde of daughters to defend nest, and they retreat from any signs of

danger or disturbance to the nest.

Minor Worker Ants

Minor worker ants, or simply 'workers', are the most common ant found in any colony.

They are also called as carpenter ants. These sterile female ants are the smallest ant, but they do

the most work. Some look after the queen and brood, some forage for food from around the nest,

whilst others maintain and expand the nest. Carpenter ants prefer to establish nests in areas where

wood has been exposed to severe moisture. Carpenter ant build two types of nests; parent colonies

and satellite colonies. Parent colonies consist of a queen, her brood and workers. Satellite colonies

consist of workers, older larvae and pupae. All moisture conditions that the ants found conducive

must be corrected. If treated early, carpenter ants are seldom for serious structural damage to

houses and buildings. However, these ants could cause extreme damage if they continue

undiscovered for extended period. Thus, it is advisable to seek professional help in containing

carpenter ant infestations. Workers can live between a few months and up to five years.
Soldier Ants | Major Workers | Big Heads

Soldier ants are also known as major workers or big heads. They are only present among

certain species that are 'polymorphic'. These sterile female ants are larger and stronger than

typical workers. They protect their colony from large predators and use their strength and large

jaws ormandibles to cut and carry larger objects. In harvester ant species, the soldiers use their

strength to crack open hard seeds.In leaf cutter ant species, the solders cut through the thicker

plants so that the minor workers can carry the clippings back to their nest. Some species

have median workers that are sized between minor and major workers.
Winged Princess | Alate | Virgin Queen

A princess is an unfertilized virgin queen, she has wings present and so is an alate flying

ant. Princesses take to the skies to mate on a warm, humid summers day also known as the nuptial

flight. Once mated, they scurry along the ground to find a suitable nesting place to lay their eggs.

They clip their own wings and use them as a protein source to feed their new family.
Winged Drone | Alate | Male Ant

Drones are the only male ants in a colony. They are born from un-fertilized eggs. Drones

are not like typical ants. They don't do any work in their nests, and they look more like wasps than

ants. They are reproductive winged ants and so are alates. They take to the skies on the same day

as the princesses to mate during the nuptial flight.Once they have mated, they die. Drones will

only survive a few months during the mating season. Their life is short lived, but like all ants, they

play a crucial part in the ant life cycle.

THE HIERACHY OF THE ANT PARADIGM

PRINCIPAL/HEADMASTER
QUEEN

HEAD OF
DEPARTMENTS
WINGED PRINCESS

SENIOR
TEACHERS
WINGED DRONE

TEACHERS

SOLDIERS

MINOR WORKERS
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THE QUEEN-THE PRINCIPAL
Roles of principal are as follows:
1. School leader
2. Student discipline
3. Teacher evaluator
4. Develop, implement, evaluate program
5. Review policies
6. Hiring new teachers
THE WINGED PRINCESS-HEAD OF
DEPARTMENTS
1. Leadership and management
2.Responsible for teaching and students
3.Responsible for research
4.Knowledge transfer
5.People management
6.Financial management
THE WINGED DRONE-SENIOR TEACHERS
1. Respect the head teacher/principal who bears the ultimate
responsibilities for the school
2. Have a good relationship with teams – so that the
communication becomes easy
3. As the medium of the principal and staff
4. As the medium of school and parent
5. Ensure the process of learning in the aspect of curriculum,
co- curriculum and student affairs are vin the right track
6. Aware of the physical environment
7. Aware of the fiscal/fund
8. Keeps things running smoothly
THE SOLDIER-TEACHERS
Roles of teachers are broad
1. Resource provider
2. Instructional specialist
3. Curriculum specialist
4. Classroom supporter
5. Learning facilitator
6. Mentor
7. School leaders
8. Data coach
9. leaner
THE WORKERS-PUPILS

1. Roles of the students including to themselves,

parents, teachers, societies, religions, culture, and
country

2. They should focused to their academic and

ensuring they are success in their learning and
career.
According to Hayes Mizell (2010) professional development is
many types of educational experiences related to an
individual’s work. Doctors, lawyers, educators, accountants,
engineers, and people in a wide variety of professions and
businesses participate in professional development to learn
and apply new knowledge and skills that will improve their
performance on the job. Many fields require members to
participate in ongoing learning approved by the profession,
sometimes as a requirement for keeping their jobs.
Professionals often also voluntarily seek new learning.
The Ants’ Leadership The Ants’ Leadership
Workshop Camp
Focus on the theory of Focus on the
the leadership. application of the
theory.
The first phase The second phase
One day courses Three day camp
In-door activities Out-door activities
Participant : whole Participant : Whole
organizations organizations
The Ants’ Leadership Paradigm let to
understand the important of the teamwork and
cooperation in organizations – the importance
of the leader and the follower in an
organizations.
The amazing characteristics of the ants in
achieving their goals should motivate us to
apply the principal show by the ants in our
organization so we can achieve our
organizational goal with the feeling of
togetherness and no one is leaf behind.