Take Time to Reflect

I encourage everyone to take some time to reflect on their past month of work and look at your actions and your words and determine if you have been LEADING or MANAGING. True leadership is such an important element to the success of a school, business, home, etc. Your work will contain elements of management, but in the absence of leadership, managing work will maintain status quo and ensure things happen as they always have. If you want fundamental change and improvement, you need both leadership and elements of management.  There is a difference between leadership and management. Leadership entails establishing a clear vision, sharing that vision with others so that they will follow willingly, and providing the information, knowledge and methods to realize that vision. Management is a set of principles relating to the functions of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling, and the applications of these principles in harnessing physical, financial, human and informational resources efficiently and effectively to achieve organizational goals. 

As the leader of your campus, ask yourself these two questions:

1. What is the vision or direction I am setting for my school?

2. How am I spearheading that vision or direction?