Leadership You, Leadership Me!

Week 6, December 10th 2015
Just thinking out loud!

This week, our class has been reviewing different models of leadership and what different types of leadership characteristics look like.  I've also been thinking about leadership roles people take on without actually having a formal leadership role 'as-per-say'!

I don't have a formal leadership role and I haven't had the opportunity to as yet but I do recognise in a small sense, I've had a role in helping others when others needed support.  I'm talking about 'Key Players' or 'Change Agents' within a school's staff that are the ones that take to PD like water to a duck's back or are ready for challenge and change in the name of what's good for my students and for me!

My good friend was our ICT/eLearning facilitator at my last school and when offering new professional development was like 'fresh air'.  Myself and some colleagues were excited by the chance of new learning and hands-on skills/knowledge/practice that would benefit our students and of course, those with the motivation and a little bit of 'know-how' will try to learn as much as they can...we also became the 'informal go-to-people' when our friend was unavailable or when our 'techie' guy couldn't help.

In a sense, these were leadership roles that also provided support for colleagues re: technical support and advice or tips but we also provided the 'just-in-time' learning for others...I mean that when others had an issue or question or need, we could try to provide solutions to these 'at-the-time' of need.

Leadership styles and types are 'a-plenty'.  After last week's survey, I found my strongest leadership quality of characteristic is 'Participative', followed by 'Laissez-Faire' and then 'Transformational', amongst a few others.

Refreshing to know I'm a major Team Player who may be indecisive at times but will give all the responsibility to the other person to work out how to finish the job based on their own intellect and skills - but I like how I interact with others...remember participative and transformational!  My results are in the LDC Notes and Tasks tabs.