ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP
Organizational leadership
• Involves setting strategic goals and motivating individuals to achieve
them. In the school setting, the school leader helps set goals and motivates
teachers, parents, learners, non-teaching personnel and other members of
the community. It works towards what is best for individual members and
what is best for the organization as a group. Both individual and group are
necessary.
 School Head Must be Both a Leader and a Manager
- School heads lead the school and community to formulate a
vision, mission, goals, and school improvement plan, ensuring
resources and qualified personnel are available.
 Leadership Versus Management
- Leadership is the ability of an individual to influence, motivate, and
enable others to contribute to the organization's success. Management
is responsible for controlling an organization, a group, or a set of
entities to achieve a particular objective.
Types of Skills Demanded of Leaders
• Technical skill - Refers to any type of process or technique like
sending e-mail, preparing a power point presentation.
• Human skill - Is the ability to work effectively with people and to
build teamwork.
• Conceptual skill - Is the ability to think in terms of models,
frameworks and broad relationship such as long range plans.
Leadership style
• Autocratic - Autocratic leaders do decision making by themselves.
• Consultative – Uses the skills of others to create plans and make decisions.
• Democratic leaders – Allow the members of organization to fully
participate in decision making.
• Laissez faire – Leaders avoid responsibility and leave the members of
organization to establish their own word.
Servant leadership
• The servant-leader is a type of leader who seeks to serve and lead.
Transformational leadership
• A leader works with teams or followers beyond their immediate self-interests
to identify needed change, creating a vision to guide the changes.
Sustaining change
• Any change to a process is only successful in the long run if the stakeholders
truly adopt and sustain the change.