Discover Your Leadership Potential

Understanding Leadership: Traits, Situational Styles, and Behaviors

• Leadership involves influencing and directing others towards a common goal or vision.
• Leaders provide guidance, inspiration, and motivation to achieve goals.
• Leaders possess the necessary skills and knowledge to make informed decisions and solve problems effectively.
• Administration involves ensuring that a team meets its goals and has all the necessary resources.
• The trait approach to leadership focuses on personal attributes such as physical and personality characteristics, competencies, and values.
• Situational leadership means adapting management style to meet the needs of the team or team members.
• There are four styles of situational leadership: telling, selling, participating, and delegating.
• Directive leadership provides clarity and coordinates work, informing team members of what is expected of them.
• Supportive leadership improves the employee experience by making the lives of employees more pleasant.
• Participative leadership involves employees in the decision-making process.
• Achievement-oriented leadership fosters growth by setting challenging goals and encouraging continuous improvement.
• Leadership behavior is the process by which a person can guide, direct, and influence the work of others to meet specific goals.

Defining the Traits of Teacher Leadership

• Teacher leadership involves inspiring educational change collaboratively.
• Teacher leaders work alongside others and have their eyes on what is possible for all.
• Designated team leaders are not necessarily teacher leaders.
• There are six defining characteristics of teacher leaders: experts, exceptional communicators, change agents, inspirational leaders, trustworthy colleagues, and explorers.
• Teacher leaders share their expertise and acquire more through professional development.
• Teacher leaders prioritize listening and honesty in their communication.
• Teacher leaders initiate successful change and inspire others to do the same.
• Inspirational teacher leaders inspire their colleagues to step up and take risks.
• Trust is essential for teacher leadership and is built through benevolence, competence, honesty, openness, and reliability.
• Teacher leaders are trailblazers who are willing to try new ideas and share their experiences.
• Teacher leaders share their vulnerabilities by being open about their successes and failures.
• Building expertise is essential to becoming a teacher leader.