Personnel administration is about relationships

Class objectives

• To focus on Thomas Hoerr's (2005) four components of leadership and relationships.
• Applying these four components to an observation and reflection in the field.

Assignments

• Introduction and Chapter 1, The Art of School Leadership
• Read Its About the People, Its Not About the Coffee
• Discuss Field Activity #1

Field activity #1

Notes

• 1. Include the name of your peer reviewer (other cohort member).
• 2. Instruct your peer reviewer to submit their review by the deadline (i.e., the face-to-face meeting following the assignment).
• 3. A hard copy of your assignment (in Word) due to the instructor the following face-to-face class session. Your peer reviewer has the same deadline.
• 4. NO LATE field activites accepted from either cohort member or peer reviewer.
• 5. As with all of our field activities/assignments, confidentiality is critical. No names of administrators, teachers, or staff from the field.
• 6. Each of the five field assignments must be peer reviewed by five separate reviewers.

It's not about the coffee

It's Not About the Coffee: Leadership Principles from a Life at Starbucks. Its About the People - All the People . Howard Behar, former President, Starbucks International. Click Here

The art of school leadership

In Thomas Hoerr's The Art of School Leadership we read the following:

Good leaders change organizations; great leaders change people. People are at the heart of any organization, particularly a school, and it is only through changing people - nurturing and challenging them, helping them grow and develop, creating a culture in which they all learn - that an organization can flourish. Leadership is about relationships.

Leaders increase a group's productivity by helping everyone in the group become more effective. Whatever the task or goal, a great leader helps everyone improve. A leader begins by setting the vision but doesn't stop there. A leader listens,understands, motivates, reinforces, and makes the tough decisions. A leader passesout praise when things go well and takes responsibility and picks up the peices when things fall apart. Leadership is about relationships.