Lifelong Leadership by Design : How to Do More Good for Kids and Feel Better about Your Life's Work

by Robert D. Ramsey

• ISBN13: 9781412969062
• ISBN10: 1412969069
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-29
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

This guide/blueprint is a step by step aide for school leaders to help look at and plan their careers. This book is designed as a career guide for school leaders to help them manage their entire career in a way that applies leadership principles, best serves students, is most fulfilling and leaves a lasting legacy. It answers all the tough career questions beginning leaders do or should ask about planning and career guidance and will be a unique resource for educational leaders. The book will be relatively brief and carefully arranged to highlight key issues school leaders will face including career choices, successful career building, and tough calls and hard choices. The book will include checklists and figures, but more importantly, it will be packed with real-world examples drawn from the author's extensive front-line experience at all levels of public education.á

Table of Contents

Preface: It's Not My High School Principal's Predictable Career Path Anymore	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
About the Author	p. xiii
About the Title	p. xv
Introduction: No-Limit Leadership by Design	p. 1
Your Chosen Journey: Building a Better Leadership Career on Purpose	p. 5
Is This What You Want?	p. 7
Are You Leadership Material?	p. 8
What's a Career? What's Not?	p. 11
Who's in Control?	p. 13
What Should You Expect?	p. 15
What's the Plan?	p. 17
The Seven Critical Choices That Shape Your Leadership	p. 23
Choosing Core Values	p. 24
Leading With Attitude	p. 26
Defining Stretch Goals	p. 28
Getting Priorities Straight	p. 29
Finding Role Models	p. 31
Associates by Choice	p. 32
Picking the Right Battles	p. 33
Choosing When It's Confusing	p. 35
Overcoming Self-imposed Limits, Career Blockers, and False Ceilings	p. 39
False Ceilings and Self-Made Lirnitations	p. 40
Other Self-Sabotaging Behaviors	p. 47
Natural Laws of lifelong School Leadership	p. 53
Natural Laws You Can Use	p. 54
Natural Laws of Career Design	p. 55
Natural Laws of School Leadership	p. 60
Ignorance Is No Excuse	p. 67
Navigation Tips for a Lifelong Journey in School Leadership	p. 69
The Journey Begins in Your Mind	p. 71
Seeking, Starting, Stopping, and Switching Jobs as a School Leader (or Growing Where You're Planted)	p. 73
Becoming Indispensable, Promotable, and Transferable	p. 86
The Most Important Skill of All for Today's (and Tomorrow's) School Leaders	p. 87
How to Step Up, Stand Out, and Stand Apart as a School Leader	p. 90
Staying the Course and Staying Motivated	p. 93
Finding Your Soul as a School Leader	p. 96
Success ôSecretsö for Career School Leaders	p. 101
The Power of Thinking Big	p. 102
Leading Others: Building Relationships to Get Results	p. 103
Leading Yourself: Managing the Most Difficult Person of All	p. 114
Stepping Stones and Stumbling Blocks to Effective School Leadership	p. 121
Common Stepping Stones and Stumbling Blocks for School Leaders	p. 122
The Most Influential Career Stepping Stones and Stumbling Blocks	p. 130
The Boss Factor	p. 133
The Job Itself as a Stumbling Block	p. 136
The Resilient School Leader: Overcoming Stumbling Blocks and Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities	p. 138
Making Tough Calls and Hard Choices	p. 145
Deciding to Decide	p. 146
Career-Changing Choices	p. 147
A How-to-Decide Guide	p. 156
A Permanent State of Transition	p. 162
Evolution of a Lifelong Career and Leaving a Lasting Legacy	p. 163
Developmental Phases of Successful School Leadership	p. 165
Every Phase Adds Value to the Legacy	p. 169
Definition of a Legacy	p. 170
Planting Seeds for Lasting Impact	p. 174
How to Design a Legacy to Be Proud Of	p. 174
A Final Word	p. 179
Resource A: What Others Say	p. 181
Resource B: Read More About It	p. 183
Index	p. 185
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