5 Ways to Stop Fixing and Start Developing | Leadership Freak

5 Ways to Stop Fixing and Start Developing | Leadership Freak



Bringing out the best in people means adding their talent to the mix, not fixing them.

How to Work Together Without Killing Each Other | Leadership Freak

How to Work Together Without Killing Each Other | Leadership Freak

You need the people who irritate you to achieve maximum success.

• Have management and leadership operating at the  same time.
• operate like a start-up with a let's try it attitude
• be more about networks than hierachy

The 7 Step Map to Management Success | Leadership Freak

The 7 Step Map to Management Success | Leadership Freak

Filling a Leadership Position? Wait! - Leadership 360 - Education Week

Filling a Leadership Position? Wait! - Leadership 360 - Education Week



A rapidly changing world requires new leadership models to bring about positive change in

student achievement and life chances.  Asking parents what are their ideas of the qualities o

they require of the new principal without updating them as to what is the latest in research is not only a waste of time but a backward step and an opportunity missed.

Enlisting the army to achieve your strategic goals for the year- the army of parents

Schools have an army to enlist in gaining better outcomes for their students. 

But they often overlook them. 

 I am passionate about changing relationships between parents and schools. 

 Parents are often seen as the enemy or as a good audience for what is happening in schools. And rightly so, as some parents do give us a bad name. 

In my work in schools as a Principal, I realised that I was often distracted by 
the negative parents and overlooked what could be achieved by working with the great majority. 
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Interesting comments by Hattie (2015) that parents are being sold a message by private schools that they have better teacher, smaller classes, and more extracurricular.  "Parents pay
high fees for these schools in the hopes of
insuring a high quality education for their child.
There is the perception of there being slightly
higher odds of a good education (or at least
of meeting the ‘right’ people and avoiding the
‘wrong’ ones)" p.9. 

"When students’ prior achievement or socio-
economic background is considered, however,
the evidence shows little difference in achievement between private and public schools in
many systems (OECD,  2014, p. 409 in Hattie, 2015,p.9).  

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Most Feedback Begins in the Wrong Place | Leadership Freak

Most Feedback Begins in the Wrong Place | Leadership Freak

Seven Ways to Rise by Letting Go | Leadership Freak

Seven Ways to Rise by Letting Go | Leadership Freak

7 ways to find success by letting go:

1. Accept the darkness. You’re supposed to be happy, but you aren’t. Accept it.
2. Ask negative circumstances, “What are you teaching me?”
3. Connect with people who are transparent, tough, and tender. When you’re stuck, you need someone who has developed them self and who can help you confront the brutal facts with tenderness. Avoid fixers.
4. Don’t blame others for your disappointing present. Finger-pointing solidifies the past.
5. Focus on things within your control, even if they’re small.
6. Press forward with imperfect clarity.
7. Monitor energy. Do what gives you energy, not what drains it.

The ability to let go enhances your ability to develop teams, organizations, and yourself.

14 Habits Of Exceptionally Likeable People | Business Insider

14 Habits Of Exceptionally Likeable People | Business Insider



How to develop a pleasing personality, which is needed in the pursuit of moving others in leadership.

Personal Qualities: They have a positive mental attitude and find a lesson in failure rather than brooding over it. They don't procrastinate and keep an open mind.

They always speak in a carefully disciplined friendly tone, are patient and maintain composure at all times.  They don't express all their thoughts.



With others: They pay close attention to someone speaking to them and act as if they are the most important person in the world and smile to put them at ease.  They praise others in a genuine way.



They have someone they trust point out their flaws.



They engage in one good deed a day.

Vision: What does Your Leader Stand For? | Jake in Dubai

Vision: What does Your Leader Stand For? | Jake in Dubai

Great article on vision and strategy for leaders.

8 Questions Successful People Ask Themselves | TIME

8 Questions Successful People Ask Themselves | TIME

An interesting perspective on getting things done.

Taking the Lead in Family Engagement: A Message to Our Followers on Presidents’ Day / Browse Our Publications / Publications & Resources / HFRP - Harvard Family Research Project

Taking the Lead in Family Engagement: A Message to Our Followers on Presidents’ Day / Browse Our Publications / Publications & Resources / HFRP - Harvard Family Research Project

LEADERS OFFER BIG, BOLD IDEAS

LEADERS CHALLENGE POPULAR CONVENTION

LEADERS SEEK ADAPTIVE SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS

LEADERS MOVE IDEAS TO ACTION

Australia - Westpac CEO Gail Kelly's seven lessons for life and business

Westpac CEO Gail Kelly's seven lessons for life and business





One of Australia's top women executives 7 lessons for life

1. CHOOSE TO BE POSITIVE
2. DO WHAT YOU LOVE, LOVE WHAT YOU DO
3. BE BOLD, DIG DEEP
4. THE VISION THING
5. GENEROSITY OF SPIRIT
6. RIGHT PEOPLE ON THE BUS, WRONG PEOPLE OFF
7. LIVE A WHOLE LIFE

8 Leadership Mistakes That Others Made So You Don't Have To

For every success, there is an epic failure. Those leaders who achieved greatness did so not because of their success stories, but because the lessons in failure that they learned and applied to create those success stories. In other words, leaders find “right” only after navigating through a storm cloud of “wrong.”

Before assuming the reins of your next venture, run through the following checklist of no-no’s from mistakes made by others -- so you don't have to:

Jeff Boss

8 Leadership mistakes

6 ways being mindful can make you a better leader

6 Ways Being Mindful Can Make You a ...

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As Jon Kabat-Zinn puts it, mindfulness "wakes us up to the fact that our lives unfold only in moments." If w...

One of the best definitions of mindfulness comes from Jon Kabat-Zinn, professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, who says that mindfulness is the awareness that comes when we pay attention—on purpose—in the present moment, while suspending judgment. That's the judgment of how we perceive a person, a situation or any activity at that moment. It's about not living in our heads all the time.

the ambition gap

Book by Sheryl Sandberg About women and leadership "Lean In"

Are you afraid to lead and lean in?

7 Characteristics of Successful women leaders…..

1. Vision
2. Communication
3. Strength of Character 
4. Emotional Intelligence
5. Relationship Building
6. Visibility 
7. Principled Leadership 

Be crystal clear of your values and principles on which you act as 

a leader and use them as rudders to guide your decisions to keep you

on track.  

What are your values and principles?

Read full article www.financenk.com  

What is your definition of leadership?

Is it leadership from the front by example?

or leadership by serving others?

leadership by focusing on strengths more than weaknesses

which one resonates with you????

Not an easy thing to do

There are four positions we can take towards others in both our professional and personal relationships.

The most effective according Dr Stephen Covey is the "win-win" paradigm.  This, however, is not an easy

thing to do as we are conditioned though out our lives to compare ourselves with others and compete until 

someone wins and someone loses. What do you do to cultivate the 'win-win' position?? 

You cannot control everything in your life focus on those you can

Focus on the things you can influence then you will expand your knowledge and experience and build trustworthiness.  Focus on your circle of influence and not your circle of concern.  Stephen Covey