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INSTRUCTIONAL LEADER ORGANIZATION LEADER EXEMPLAR

Date: __________________________________
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 Module 1A
Day 2
Session No. 4
THE SCHOOL
HEAD AS A
LEADER
_______________________
Facilitator

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PROGRAM:
 TERMINAL OBJECTIVE:

▪ define leadership in the context of

a School Head

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 ENABLING OBJECTIVES:
▪ Identify the five exemplary leadership practices
▪ Assess oneself in terms of the challenges of leadership
via the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) tool

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 Suggestion No. 1:
▪ Slides 5 and 6 shall be deleted

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 LEADERSHIP ICON (Subject for Removal)

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. NELSON MANDELA

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LEADERSHIP ICON (Subject for Removal)

AUNG SAN SUU KYI MIRIAM DEFENSOR-SANTIAGO

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 Brainstorm
❖ Identify 5 specific
examples of leadership
challenges you have
encountered as school
head.
❖Why do you consider
these challenges?

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 Suggestion No. 2

Change the Guide Questions in Slide10.

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1. What is your operational definition of Leadership?
What are its characteristics?

2. As a leader, how do you influence others?

3. How is your influence impact the following:

- Self
- Family
- Community
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The Challenges of Leadership

VIDEO

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 The Leadership Challenge
(Kouzes & Posner, 1987)

How leaders get extraordinary things done in

organizations

How leaders turn challenging

opportunities into remarkable ones
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Qualities Admired by Constituents
(Kouzes & Posner, 1987)

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Qualities Admired by Constituents
(Kouzes & Posner, 1987)

Honest
“Is that person truthful? Ethical? Principled?
Of high integrity? Do they have character?”

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Qualities Admired by Constituents
(Kouzes & Posner, 1987)

Competent

“To enlist in another’s cause, we must

believe that they know what they are doing…
If we doubt the leader’s abilities, we are
unlikely to enlist in the crusade.”

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Qualities Admired by Constituents
(Kouzes & Posner, 1987)

Forward-looking
“What will the company look like, feel like, be
like when it arrives at its goal in six months
or six years? Tell us in rich detail so… we
know when we have arrived.”

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Qualities Admired by Constituents
(Kouzes & Posner, 1987)

Inspiring

“If a leader displays no passion for a

cause, why should others?”

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Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership
(Kouzes & Posner, 1987)

Images sourced from http://www.studentleadershipchallenge.com

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 Five Practices of Exemplary
Leadership
(Kouzes & Posner, 1987)

❖ Set the example -

behave in ways
consistent to shared
values
❖ Achieve small wins -
build commitment to
action
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 Five Practices of Exemplary
Leadership
(Kouzes & Posner, 1987)

❖ Foster collaboration -
promote cooperative goals
and mutual trust
❖ Strengthen others - share
power, provide choice,
develop competence, and
offer visible support

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Leader-Member Exchange (LMX)
Theory (Graen & Uhl-Bien, 1995)
in-group

out-group

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 Leader-Member Exchange
(LMX) Theory (Graen & Uhl-Bien, 1995)
Happens when a new member joins the team.
Role-taking Projects are assigned and skills are gauged.

New members begin to work on their projects.

Role-making
Sorting into in-group and out-group begins.

Leader-member relationships begin to solidify.

Routinization In-group works to build more trust; out-group
begins to distrust or resent the leader.

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Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership
(Kouzes & Posner, 1987)

• Recognize contributions to
success - link rewards with
performance
• Celebrate accomplishments
- value the victories

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Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership
(Kouzes & Posner, 1987)

❖ Envision the future - imagine

uplifting and ennobling ends
❖ Enlist others - attract people
to a shared vision by
appealing to their values,
interests, hopes, and dreams

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 Five Practices of Exemplary
Leadership
(Kouzes & Posner, 1987)

❖ Search for opportunities

- confront and change the
status quo
❖ Experiment and take
risks - learn from both
mistakes and successes

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Leadership Practices Inventory
(Kouzes & Posner, 1998)

SELF-ASSESSMENT

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 Suggestive Readings

1. Position
The 5 Levels of 2. Permission
Leadership by 3. Production
John Maxwell 4. People Development
5. Pinnacle

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 Reflection Paper
Based on my LPI results…
• My strongest area is…...
• I can use this to respond to the
challenge…....
• My weakest area is......
• When I strenthen this, this will
enable me to meet this
challenge.......
• I will therefore......
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"The greatest leader is not necessarily the
one who does the greatest things. He is
the one that gets the people to do the
greatest things." 
Ronald Reagan

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