Having a building leader with the skills that
are beneficial to the building is a great success. No one wants a leader that
has coercive qualities. A leader that demands compliance is a leader that will
have acts of rebellion in a building or district. This type of leadership does
not mesh well with most people and is not beneficial for an educational
learning environment.
As it stands now, I relate more with the authoritative
leader that has a “positive impact on climate performance”. “Authoritative
leaders need to recognize the weaknesses as well as the strengths in their
approach” (Fullan, 2001, p. 39) . This style of leadership works better in an
educational setting. It allows people to feel as if there is direction, and
trust. Teachers and staff want to be able to trust their administrators.
A third leadership
style that I would like to discuss would be an affliative leadership style. I
have said that I believe I am both an authoritative leader as well as an
affliative at times. Which rang very true as I was reading the previously cited
book; “Leading in a Culture of Change”.
It states “Pacesetters and coercers are terrible listeners. Authoritative
leaders are not that good at listening either. Affiliative and democratic
leaders listen too much. This is why leadership is complicated” (Fullan, 2001, p. 42) In self-reflection,
I have stated that I need to work on my listening skills and that I am very
empathetic.
#14
Is middle class disappearing?
The average income among middle class families
shrank by 4.3% between 2009 and 2013
http://time.com/3702002/middle-class-disappearing-states/
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