How can you lead effectively?

15/09/06 15:24 Filed in: Focus on Mission
Let me answer your question by comparing coaching and leading.

You’re coaching a sports team. Here are 7 tips that can help you coach effectively:
  1. Know your sport.
  2. Know what constitutes winning (high score as in soccer or low score as in golf)
  3. Before the athletic contest, tell your team the plan.
  4. Watch the athletic contest.
  5. Know the score.
  6. Use your timeouts to celebrate achievement of the plan, increase focus on the plan, and encourage players to win.
  7. Use your players’ stats to improve performance.
You’re leading a Christian school. Here are 7 tips that can help you lead effectively:
  1. Know your mission.
  2. Know what it take to achieve your mission in terms of measurable student learning.
  3. At the start of the school year, tell your staff what the plan is for increasing measurable student learning.
  4. Watch students learning.
  5. Know your students’ achievement levels.
  6. Use your staff meetings to celebrate student learning, increase focus on student learning, and encourage your staff to achieve the mission.
  7. Use your students’ assessment results to increase learning.
Remember, the real question isn’t “How can I coach effectively?” or even “How can I lead effectively?” The real question is “What am I going to do today to achieve our God-given mission?”

What can you do? Here are 7 options:
  1. Memorize your mission statement.
  2. Define the achievement of your mission in terms of measurable student learning.
  3. Collaborate with staff to develop annual improvement plans that target mission achievement.
  4. Schedule 30-60 minutes each week to do walkthroughs and/or to examine student work.
  5. Use your definition of mission achievement and your student assessment results to determine your current level of mission achievement.
  6. At your next staff meeting, ask teachers for examples of how students have increased their understanding and use of a biblical perspective.
  7. At the end of each year, use your students’ assessment results to identify ways to increase your students’ understanding and use of a biblical perspective.
Steward what God has given you. Use 1 option today.?