What makes a good educational leader? How can you be one? Is a job candidate an effective leader who can work with students and staff in your school or district? According to author Jeffrey Glanz, each of us has natural leadership abilities. Although no single leadership style is better than another, matching a person's style with an assignment leads to success for the person, his colleagues, and the organization. The key is to identify and actualize each person's natural leadership style. Full descriptions of the seven types of leaders--Dynamic Aggressives, Dynamic Assertives, Dynamic Supportives, Adaptive Aggressives, Adaptive Assertives, Adaptive Supportives, and Creative Assertives--afford valuable insight into your own behaviors and the strengths of those around you. Glanz uses vivid, authentic scenarios to illustrate the qualities of each leadership type, and identifies seven virtues that are critical for all leaders and yet are often overlooked in educational leadership programs. An invaluable aid to teachers, supervisors, and district leaders, this book provides questionnaires and focus questions to help you analyze leadership potential in yourself and in colleagues. The author also shows you how to go about the crucial process of matching leadership qualities with specific jobs in the educational system, from teacher to superintendent. Understanding the natural leadership qualities and virtues helps you to create an educational environment that is characterized by excellence. Note: This product listing is for the Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version of the book.

Glanz utilizes three basic quality types -- the Dynamics, the Adaptives, and the Creatives -- with three basic emotional types -- the Aggressives, the Assertives, and the Supportives -- to establish seven types of leadership styles. His work aims to answer the question "what type am I?" and find the most important virtue necessary to incorporate that leadership style into high-quality educational supervision.

From the authors of the bestselling "StrengthsFinder 2.0" comes a landmark study of great leaders, teams, and the reasons why people follow them.

From New York Times bestseller Mark Murphy comes the definitive guide to leadership styles!What's your leadership style? You have a particular style, of course, but do you know what it is and how it compares to the styles of other leaders? Do you know what types of employees respond best to your leadership style? And in which situations your particular leadership style is likely to generate the best results?Based on a study of more than 300,000 leaders, we've discovered the four fundamental leadership styles: Pragmatist, Idealist, Steward and Diplomat. Each one has strengths and weaknesses, so if you want to be an exceptional leader, you need to understand how to best leverage your personal leadership style to achieve maximal results from your team.Mark Murphy is a New York Times bestselling author, contributor to Forbes, and the founder of Leadership IQ, a research and training firm. Mark has consistently been ranked as one of the Top 30 leadership gurus in the world, and his books include Truth At Work: The Science of Delivering Tough Messages, Hundred Percenters: Challenge Your People to Give It Their All and They'll Give You Even More, Hiring for Attitude, and HARD Goals: The Science of Getting From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and U.S. News & World Report. Mark has also appeared on CNN, NPR, CBS Sunday Morning, and ABC's 20/20.

Leveraging Your Leadership Style is not your typical leadership book! It takes the guesswork out of the equation and sets readers up for greater success with its exclusive BIT (Behavior Individuality Trait) assessment. Readers will discover their unique leadership style and learn how to maximize their strengths in order to get the results they seek. The book identifies four distinct leadership styles: · The Commander · The Coach · The Counselor · The Conductor Authors John Jackson and Lorraine Bosse'-Smith bring forty-plus years of collective business and people experience to this dynamic, fast, yet informative book that will help any people in any position be the leaders God intended them to be.

This book will be attractive to all ministers who are seeking to understand how leadership works and why it can be so difficult. It would be useful as a study book for lay ministers as well and for all o take up a leadership role in local churches. It could also be attractive to lay people who as disciples seek to lead in their places of work with Christian values and behaviours.