MODULE 1
CREATING A COMPELLING ORGANIZATIONAL PURPOSE
This module focuses on organizational purpose,
vision and core values and their role in shaping organizational
change, the strategic leader’s role in the creation
and maintenance of a future-focused organizational purpose,
vision and core values, and creating consensus around a
compelling, future-focused organizational purpose and vision.
MODULE 2
BEING THE LEAD LEARNER
This module emphasizes that highly
effective people must be life-long learners, trend trackers
and futurists, that leaders model continuous and energetic
growth and development, and create an organizational norm
of continuous and purposeful learning.
MODULE 3
MODELING THE ORGANIZATION’S
PURPOSE AND PRINCIPLES
This module focuses on the power
and importance of “modeling” and symbolic leadership,
that trustworthiness and integrity are the perquisites
to leadership legitimacy and leadership effectiveness,
and establishing trust and aligning behavior and decisions
with the purpose and vision of the organization.
MODULE 4
EMPLOYING WIN-WIN STRATEGIES
WITH CUSTOMERS AND CLIENTS
This module emphasizes that the
organization and the staff must be client –centered
and customer focused, that the strategic leader creates
positive, open, honest and trusting relationships with
customers and clients, and creates long-term trusting relationships,
employing win-win strategies when communicating, negotiating
and problem solving with customers and clients.
MODULE 5
CREATING A CULTURE OF SUCCESS,
COOPERATION AND QUALITY
This module is designed to demonstrate
why and how the values and beliefs of individuals and the
culture of an organization influence how people think and
behave, explains the role of the leader in creating and
maintaining an organizational culture based upon core values
by creating a culture of sustained success through workplace
cooperation and quality products and processes throughout
the organization.
MODULE 6
CREATING A CHANGE-FRIENDLY
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT MINDSET
This module teaches how change
and adaptability are basic to continuous improvement and
to long-term organizational health and stability; sees
the strategic leader as a change agent, creating a change-friendly
organizational climate that encourages, supports, and rewards
innovation and change thus creating a climate and designing
organizational structures that make purposeful change and
adaptability organization norms.
MODULE 7
CREATING MEANING AND OWNERSHIP
AROUND ORGANIZATIONAL PURPOSE
This module emphasizes that all
employees find motivational meaning in their work, defines
the leader’s
role in creating meaning for employees, and structures
work activities consistent with a compelling organizational
purpose that helps employees find meaning, intrinsic motivation
and fulfillment in their work.
MODULE 8
EMPOWERING EVERYONE IN THE
ORGANIZATION
This module describes what
empowerment is and why and how it leads to job satisfaction
and productivity; shows how leaders significantly influence
the conditions that create feelings of empowerment in employees;
and supports implementing policies, procedures and practices
that bring out the best in people and significantly increase
the organization’s
capacity.
MODULE 9
CREATING A FEEDBACK LOOP FOR
CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
This modules focuses on the
motivational power of feedback, the role that feedback
plays in helping organizations continuously and systematically
improve, and why feedback is a prerequisite for accountability;
why the strategic leader designs and implements feedback
systems regarding the internal operations of the system
and how well the organization is meeting customer/client
expectations; and supports creating internal and external
feedback loops which, in turn, ensure continuous organizational
improvement and accountability.
MODULE 10
MANAGING TOWARD AN ORGANIZATIONAL
PURPOSE AND VISION
This module emphasizes that effective
managers align all organizational components with purpose
and vision; that strategic leaders have the responsibility
to create concrete visions, conditions and structures that
encourage systemic change; and the need to make day-to-day
management decisions that align the organizational structures,
policies, processes and practices with the organization’s
purpose and vision.
MODULE 11
STRATEGIC DESIGN: CREATING
A STUDENT-CENTERED, FUTURE-FOCUSED DIRECTION FOR YOUR SCHOOL
DISTRICT
This module teaches a successful,
inspirational process to set a coherent, future-focused
strategic direction for an entire system; offers the leader
a consensus-building activity that fosters follow-through
and real productive change and improvement; and creates
within the participant the knowledge and commitment to
implement a strategic direction-setting process for his/her
whole system.
MODULE 12
SUPERVISION FOR ALIGNMENT:
MAKING SURE EVERYONE’S
ON THE BUS
This module provides a 12-question
supervision dialogue focused on implementation of vision,
quality standards, leadership and organizational support
for all staff; emphasizes that leaders will be conscious
and systematic about ensuring follow-through; and shares
the knowledge and skills to successfully implement the
Supervision for Alignment dialogue.
MODULE 13
PRINCIPLES OF PROFESSIONALISM
This module provides clues on how
do we want to do things around here which is a step on
the way to moral and ethical leadership; emphasizes that
the administrative team makes conscious and meaningful
decisions as to their collective values and principles,
identifying the attitudes and behaviors that allow them
to act on them; and creates the skills to use values and
principles as guides to communication, relationships, and
decisions.
