Christy Chambers, EdD
CEC President
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Teachers
Administrators
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Related Services Support Personnel
Parents
Students
Policy Makers
Others
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Defining leadership
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Identifying who can be a leader
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Remembering who has influenced us
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Considering the value of relationships
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Examining Head, Heart and Hands theory
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you thought about this?
good are you at this?
Knowledge
Action oriented
Heart
Communication
Influence
Supportive
Listener
Accessible
Humor
Takes risks
Gets things done
Respect
Confidence
Has followers
Visionary
Manager
Transformational
Facilitator
Shares leadership
Encourager
Role Model
and more……….
Is everyone on your team a leader?
Should everyone be a leader?
Can everyone become a leader?
Why or why not???
Can we lead others before we
are leaders in our own lives?
Someone influenced, mentored, taught &
showed us the way.
How do we influence, mentor & teach
others to find their paths?
How do we remain the mentor,
the teacher in times of cardiac
arrest?
Conscious Choice: To care or not to care?
Is the old cliché is true?
"People don't care how much you know
until they know how much you _____."
Unconditional love, support
and acceptance:
Accepting children
Accepting adults
Feelings
Beliefs
Behaviors
SPIRIT
Intellectual Mind
Emotional Mind
Spirited/Inspired Mind
Using Spirit to Lead Successfully
Dr. Sandy Gluckman
We will learn lessons. There are no
mistakes, only lessons.
A lesson is repeated until learned.
Learning lessons does not end.
There is no better place than here.
What we make of our life is up to us.
Our answers lie inside of us.
Above all, respect birds for flying and
fish for swimming.
What
Job descriptions, Contracts
How
Relationships, Head, Heart &
Hands
Discovering our leadership voice to inspire
and commit people to action
Leadership is not a role we play – It is who
we are.
Relationships determine ability to connect
to the people that we motivate
Put yourself in __shoes. Do you know what
makes them feel good?
after hours fitness class
flexible schedule-within reason
in-house shoulder or foot massages
someone who listens without judgment
Employees may work for the compensation,
but they stay because of the supervisor and
environment.
Head+Heart = ?
Heart+Hands = ?
Hands+Head = ?
Head + Heart + Hands =
Sustained Success
“You must capture and keep the
heart of the original and
supremely able man before his
brain can do its best.”
When team members collide
Development trumps discipline
Problem-solving scenarios
Multiple perspectives
What’s working for you
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2 Administrators
Compromised effectiveness
Affecting students and staff
Must work together
What can you do? What should you do?
An activity for teams:
Create scenarios and identify:
◦ the players
◦ the conflict
◦ alternative solutions from
multiple perspectives
 Teachers
 Paraprofessionals
 Administrators
Key to an effective learning experience:
-solutions from multiple perspectives
Doing things right versus doing the right
things.
How do we use our team meetings?
nuts and bolts?
development?
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Do we model, enable, inspire, challenge,
and encourage the heart?
Doing things right versus doing the right
things.
How do we use team meetings?
Do we model, enable, inspire, challenge,
and encourage?
Gain trust and respect first
Walk the talk
And they will come………
Have the
courage to
acknowledge
your own
humanness
Go to basics-teach your team
how to put spirit in the driver’s
seat & ego in the passenger’s
seat.
Whether spirit or ego is in the
driver’s seat can depend upon
how safe we feel.
A flame goes out when:
We rely on the power of past
performance
We stay within the comfort zone
We will not embrace the present moment
Burn-out :when passion for a subject and
compassion for a person is out of balance
Confront or Condone
If someone isn’t playing by the rules and we
don’t confront it, we condone it.
If something isn’t going well, address it.
Our actions affect climate and credibility,
health and stress.
It’s all in the HOW.
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Do you have the same definition?
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Has anything resonated with you?
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Any new ideas?
“The manager may get things done right. The
leader with heart does the right thing for the
right reasons.”
Chambers, 2008
Beyond the Box, LLC
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Bibliography: recommended reading
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Leadership Practices Inventory
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Websites
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Christy’s Kitchen
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Leading with Heart Workbook
Doing things right versus doing the right
things.
How do we use team meetings?
Do we model, enable, inspire, challenge,
and encourage?
head
• knowledge
• skills
hands
heart
• doer
• followers
• caring
• collaborator
Christy Chambers, Ed.D.
Beyond the Box, LLC
Beyondthebox.christy@gmail.com
815-363-9329 (O)
815-425-2758 (F)
www.leaderswithheart.com