Transcript Personal Effectiveness for school Leaders

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Personal Effectiveness
for School Leaders
Summer School
September 2006
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Course Outcomes
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Exploring Effectiveness
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• Consider the terms
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Personal Effectiveness
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Can you explore with others what these terms
might mean?
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Aristotle
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We are what we
repeatedly do.
Excellence, then,
is not an act, but
a habit.
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Perceptual Theory
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The Problem is sometimes how we see the problem
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Two battleships assigned to the training squadron had been at sea on manoeuvres in heavy
weather for several days. I was serving on the lead battleship and was on watch on the bridge
as night fell. The visibility was poor with patchy fog, so the captain remained on the bridge
keeping an eye on activities.
Shortly after dark, the lookout on the wing of the bridge reported. “light, bearing on the
starboard bow.”
“Is it steady or moving astern?” the captain called out.
Lookout replied, “Steady, captain, which meant we were on a dangerous collision course with
that ship.
The captain then called to the signalman, “Signal that ship: We are on a collision course,
advisable for you to change course 20 degrees.”
Back came a signal, “Advisable for you to change course 20 degrees.”
The captain said, “Send, I’m a captain change course 20 degrees.”
“I’m a seaman second class,” came the reply. “You had better change course 20degrees.”
By that time the captain was furious. He spat out, “Send, I’m a battleship.
Change course 20 degrees.”
Back came the flashing light, “I’m a lighthouse.”
We changed course.
Lighthouse Principles
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Integrity
Honesty
Fairness
Human Dignity
Service
Quality / Excellence
Growth
Tolerance
Encouragement
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The more closely our paradigms (mental maps) are in alignment with these principles, the
more authentic our actions become.
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What’s required to change our Habits?
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Be
Proactive
Begin with
the end in
mind
Habits
First
Things
First
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Response Language
RESPONSE LANGUAGE
REACTIVE
PROACTIVE
There’s nothing I can do.
That’s just the way I am
He makes me angry.
They won’t allow…..
I can’t
I must
If only
Let’s look at our alternatives.
I can choose a different approach.
I control my feelings.
I will choose an appropriate response.
I choose
I prefer
I will.
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Source: Stephen Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
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Circles of Concern and Influence
CIRCLE OF CONCERN
CIRCLE
OF
INFLUENCE
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Source: Stephen Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
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Proactive Model
STIMULUS
FREEDOM
TO
CHOOSE
RESPONSE
INDEPENDENT
WILL
SELF AWARENESS
CONSCIENCE
IMAGINATION
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Can you think of an occasion when you have responded to a
situation in an inappropriate way?
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Four Human Endowments
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• SELF AWARENESS
• CONSCIENCE
• CREATIVE IMAGINATION
• INDEPENDENT WILL
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Begin with the end in Mind
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There is no doubt the use of visualisation is a prominent tool for
sports men and women and for those who seek greater
accomplishment in their lives.
Consider what you wish to accomplish this year and can you
visualise what this might look like?
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The Time Management Matrix
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IMPORTANT
NOT URGENT
NOT IMPORTANT
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URGENT
Source: Stephen Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
The Time Management Matrix
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IMPORTANT
NOT IMPORTANT
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URGENT
NOT URGENT
1. ACTIVITIES
Crises
Pressing Problems
Deadline Driven
Projects
RESULTS
Stress
Burnout
Crises Management
Putting Out Fires
3. ACTIVITIES
Prevention
Relationship Building
Recognising New
Opportunities
Planning; Recreation
RESULTS
Vision
Balance
Discipline
Control
Few Crises
2. ACTIVITIES
Interruptions; Some
Calls
Some Mail; Some Reports
Some Meetings
RESULTS
Short Term Focus
Crises Management
Reputation
Chameleon
Character
Feel Victimised
4. ACTIVITIES
Trivia, Busy Work
Some Mail, Calls
Time Wasters
Pleasant Activities
RESULTS
Lack of Responsibility
Lose Jobs
Dependence of Others
Source: Stephen Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
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Review of Private Victory
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• Take 5-10 minutes to read the summary
statements for the Habits that help to create
private Victory.
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Invitational Education
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Five assumptions are basic to Invitational Education:
1.
People are able, valuable, and responsible and should be
treated accordingly.
2.
Education should be a co-operative, collaborative activity.
3.
People possess untapped potential in all areas of worthwhile
human endeavour.
4.
Process is as important as product.
5.
Human potential can best be realised by creating and
maintaining places, policies, processes, and programmes
specifically designed to invite development, and by people who
are intentionally inviting with themselves and others, personally
and professionally.
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What’s required to change our Habits?
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Think
win/win
Synergize
Habits
Seek first to be
understand
then to be
undertood
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Think win/win
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LOSE/WIN
WIN/WIN
LOSE/LOSE
WIN/LOSE
P
E
O
P
L
E
LOW
OUTCOME
HIGH
Source: Stephen Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Communication involves listening
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You are listening to me when...
You come quietly into my private world and let me be me;
You really try to understand me even if I’m not making much sense;
You grasp my point even when it’s against your own convictions;
You realised that the hour I took from you has left you a bit tired and drained;
You allow me the dignity of making my own decisions even though you think they
might be wrong;
You do not take my problem from me, but allow me to deal with it in my own way;
You do not offer religious solace before I am ready for it;
You give me enough room to discover for myself what is really going on;
You accept my gift of gratitude by telling me how good it makes you feel to know
that you have been helpful.
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Samaritans, South Africa
Communication involves listening
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You are not listening to me when...
You do not care about me;
You say you understand before you know me well enough;
You have an answer for my problem before I’ve finished telling you what my
problem is;
You cut me off before I’ve finished speaking;
You finish my sentence for me;
You feel critical of my vocabulary, grammar or accent;
You are dying to tell me something;
You tell me about your experience, making mine feel unimportant;
You are communicating to someone else in the room;
You refuse my thanks by telling me you haven’t really done anything.
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Samaritans, South Africa
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Habit 7 Sharpen the Saw
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• Sharpening the saw is about constantly
renewing ourselves in the four basic areas of
life: physical, social /emotional, mental and
spiritual. It is the habit that increases our
capacity to live all the other habits of
effectiveness. Habit 7 promotes vision,
renewal and continuous improvement,
safeguards against burnout and entropy, and
puts the organisation on a new upward
growth path. For a family, it increases
personal and family activities such as
establishing traditions that nurture the spirit
of family renewal.
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Habit 7 – Sharpen the Saw
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PHYSICAL
Exercise, Nutrition
Stress Management
MENTAL
Reading, Visualising,
Planning, Writing
SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL
Service, Empathy,
Synergy, Intrinsic Security
SPIRITUAL Value
Clarification &
Commitment, Study
& Mediation
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Evaluation and Travel
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•Thank you for your involvement, for
sharing the gift of who you are.