Skills+of+Leadership

**SKILLS OF LEADERSHIP**
We will be using the 4 frames from Bolman and Deal and the 3 from Carter and Curtis (// Visionary Director //) in this session, but we will be layering on the skills suggested by Kouzes in the reading in your notebooks.

§  What are the skills that effective leaders use? §  How does reframing an issue (per Bolman & Deal or Carter & Curtis) expand a leader's vision and power? §  How can a leader attain skills s/he does not currently have, or sharpen ones already identified?
 * FOCUSING QUESTIONS: **

[Book] Bloom, // Leadership in Action // · Chapter 4, ** “Becoming a Facilitative Leader” ** We’ll have less focus on this, so feel free to skim this. [Reader] Carter & Curtis, // Visionary Director // Together, these are long readings. Our suggestion is that you read the section headings and then read the sections that most interest you. · Chapter 4, ** “Your Role of Mentoring and Coaching,” page 115-141 ** · Chapter 5, ** “Your Role of Managing and Overseeing ** [Reader] Kouzes, // Leadership Challenge // A key focus will be here. § Chapter 2, ** “The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership” **. If you are short on time, read beginning on the 7th page (sorry, the numbers are cut off): The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. This may seem familiar to you from our first session – we have a reading from the Kouzes Workbook behind the second tab in your notebooks.
 * TO FOCUS YOUR READING: **

**BUDGET SURVEY**
<<Please do before class and send to Nachama by fax

**ADDITIONAL RESOURCES**
This webpage has links to resources related to budgeting, to salary setting, and other useful information. http://wps.ablongman.com/ab_reno_handbook_1/65/16670/4267620.cw/index.html You might also want to click on the left to see worksheets that accompany the chapter to which this is related. You can also click on the HOME link or the CHAPTER headings to find other resources. The JECC has a copy of the related book in the RMC: Reno, Hilde. //Handbook for Early Childhood Administrators: Directing with a Mission. //Boston, MA: Pearson, 2008.

AN OVERVIEW OF KOUZES' LEADERSHIP SKILLS:
· Modeling the way · Inspiring a shared vision · Challenging the process · Enabling others to act · Encouraging the heart