Transformational Leadership DNA

Leadership Doctrine

As a leader you may be asking yourself- “I signed up for this?” The answer is yes and many are glad you did. As a superintendent or building principal you have the talent, desire and disposition to lead others. You accepted this challenge and responsibility as a servant leader and your task will not be for the faint of heart. You will need conviction, courage and most importantly commitment to yourself and others to be successful. So what does it mean to be a leader and more importantly, what do effective leaders do differently? John Buchan states, "The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already." If transformational- truly effective leadership- is to occur it is through developing the leadership doctrine in you and of those around you.

Truly effective leaders instinctively and intentionally live out their beliefs through their actions. Many of your actions as a leader will be counter intuitive to institutional training, practices and belief structures within your organization. Your ability as a leader to recognize and navigate through challenges will be the difference between systemic vs situational change. Traditional approaches to continuous improvement reform begins with the mentality of how do they address the issue within the existing institutional structures. From the onset this approach will yield typical results when the expected results are far from typical. As a transformational leaders you must be anything but typical.

Transformation leaders all exhibit a set of similar characteristics....https://scottspringston.com/2017/02/leadership-doctrine/