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Setting Leadership Priorities
What’s Necessary, What’s Nice, and What’s Got to Go


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Leadership | Organizational Tools

October 2005 | 128 pages | Corwin

Dig out from your desk and discover a refreshing new world of school leadership!

Do you find yourself so busy digging a ditch with a spoon that you don't have time to go back to the tool shed and fetch a shovel? Are your in-box and daily schedule at maximum capacity? Does it seem impossible to include those extras that would make your job more enjoyable and satisfying? Conquering overload is a constant challenge for 21st-century school administrators. This book breathes fresh air into the often murky world of priority management.

Setting Leadership Priorities teaches busy professionals how to distinguish between information, activities, and situations that must be retained, those that might be refined, and many that should be relinquished. Drawing on more than twenty years of experience as a teacher and administrator, Lovely understands that reducing frustration and overload helps administrators by:

  • Increasing retention rates and improving success on the job
  • Allowing them to redistribute leadership by delegating
  • Creating balance in their daily lives and in their long-term professional journey

When the emergencies outnumber the victories and you can't see the door over your towering in-box, it's time to reshuffle your priorities and let clarity emerge. 


 
Preface
 
Acknowledgments
 
About the Author
 
1. The Information Invasion
Global Communication: Friend or Foe?

 
Overshooting the Mark

 
California’s Billion-Dollar Experiment

 
Learning to Set Limits

 
Conclusion: Turn Off the Spigot

 
 
2. Teaching Leaders to Let Go
Beef Up Communication

 
“Selective Abandonment” at Work

 
Make Room for the Essentials

 
It Takes Courage to Say No

 
Conclusion: Hope Is on the Way

 
 
3. Business As Unusual
Getting Into Gear

 
Building Organizational Fitness

 
Deposit Time in the Bank

 
The Battle of Blind Accumulation

 
Stop the Madness

 
Conclusion: Don’t Catch the Ball Every Time It’s Thrown

 
 
4. The Power of One, the Impact of Many
Loading the Bus With the Right People

 
P(3) = Persistence x Passion x Practice

 
One Principal, Many Leaders

 
Delegation Without Guilt

 
Conclusion: Bring Home the Yellow Jersey

 
 
5. Getting a Grip on Data
Excavating Quality Data

 
Take the Plunge

 
Turning Data Into Knowledge

 
Sow the Seeds of Success

 
Conclusion: It’s Elementary

 
 
6. Is the Sky Really Falling? Distinguishing a Bona Fide Crisis From Make-Believe
The Story of Urgent Ernie

 
No Need to ‘FUD’ About It

 
Fighting the Adrenaline Rush

 
School Leadership Is Not an Emergency

 
The Throes of CoDependency

 
Conclusion: Blow Out the Candles and Move On

 
 
Epilogue: Let the Odyssey Begin
Balance Inside Disequilibrium

 
Courting Successors

 
Pass the Mate

 
If at First You Don’t Succeed, TRI-TRI Again

 
Just Do It

 
 
Resource A. Sample District Complaint Policy
 
Resource B. Testing Your Organizational DNA
 
Resource C. Who’s Riding Our Bus? Personal Inventory & Team Activity
 
Resource D. Leadership Lessons in 30 Minutes or Less
Getting Results Through Time Efficient Meetings

 
The Classroom Walk ‘Bout

 
Passing Out Psychological Paychecks: 50 Ways to Recognize Employee Performance and Boost Morale

 
 
References
 
Index
Key features
  • Graphic organizers and flowcharts
  • Useful self-assessments and reflection activities
  • Sample meeting agendas, classroom walkthrough tools, and guides to use with staff
  • Surveys to inform team-building and improved organizational climate

Sample Materials & Chapters

Preface

Chapter 1


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