Successfully Leading in A Culture of Change

Successfully Leading in a
Culture of Change R. Mark Beadle, Ed.D.

CEO & Head of School
mark@Sevenstar.org
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513-405-3399 (cell)
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What is staying the same?
• God—Hebrews 13: 8
• “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”
• God is in control
• Man has a need
• Rom 3:23 “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”
• School’s Mission?
• Philippians 4:6-7
• “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with
thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all
understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
Vote:
1. “Change your future before it changes you.” – Jim Carroll
OR
2. “You have to change in order to stay the same” - W. Kooning
What has changed
Educationally?
What has changed
Culturally?
What has changed
Spiritually?
What has changed
With Students?
What has changed
With Leadership?
Kotter’s 8 Step Process: Identifying Important
Elements to Successful Organizational Change
1. Establish a sense of urgency. ...
2. Form a powerful coalition. ...
3. Create a Vision. ...
4. Communicating the Vision. ...
5. Empowering others to act on the vision. ...
6. Planning for and creating short term wins. ...
7. Consolidating improvements and producing still more change. ...
8. Institutionalizing new approaches. Establish a sense of urgency. ...
https://www.educational-business-articles.com/8-step-process/
Leaders Members Results
More good things happen.
Commitment
Internal &
External Fewer bad things happen.
Moral Purpose
• Moral Purpose means:
“acting with the intention of making a positive difference in
the lives of employees, customers, and society as a whole.”-
Fullan
• Usually accompanied by a sense of urgency
• Most of us have mixed motives
Understanding Change
“Moral Purpose without
an understanding of change
will lead to moral martyrdom.”
(Fullan, p. 5)
6 Guidelines for Change
1. The goal is not to innovate the most
2. It is not enough to have the best ideas
3. Understand and appreciate the implementation dip
4. Redefine resistance as a potential positive force
5. Re-culturing is the name of the game
6. Never a checklist, always complexity (Fullan, p. 5)
Relationships
Single most common factor to successful change
The Heart of Leadership: Seven Essentials
1. Set clear standards
2. Expect the best
3. Pay attention
4. Personalize recognition
5. Tell the story
6. Celebrate together
7. Set the example
Kouzes, James M. & Posner, Barry Z (1999). Encouraging the Heart. San Francisco: Jossey
Knowledge Creation and Sharing
• Leaders must generate and increase knowledge
within and without the organization
• Impacts:
• Moral Purpose
• Understanding Change
• Relationships
Chaos
• “all this complexity keeps people on the edge of chaos.”
• “that is where creativity resides” and “anarchy lurks”
(Fullan, p.6)
• Coherence Making:
• “unsettling processes provide the best route to greater all
around coherence making” (Fullan, p. 116)
Leaders Members Results
More good things happen.
Commitment
Internal &
External Fewer bad things happen.
How can we prepare our school for change?
• Prayer
• Involve/educate stakeholders
• Allow pilots– ex. Ed Steitz
• Embrace failures
• Model change yourself– ex. Twitter
• Hire for change – Leaders do make the difference
• Don’t let money determine change initiatives-- vision
10 (interpersonal) traits of the
successful, innovative school leader
1. Curiosity leaders
6. Commitment
2. Creativity 7. Passion
3. Empathy 8. Optimism
4. Persistence 9. Agility
5. Motivation 10. Courage source: 10 (Interpersonal) Traits of Innovative School Leaders by Aglio
Application to your school
• What are 2 or 3 changes you see that are needed at your school?
• What is your next step?
• Sevenstar’s future
• More personalized
• More affordable
• More accessible
• More scalable
• More student success
• More options/support for schools and students
Resources
• Leading Change in Education by Fullan
• Leading in a Culture of Change by Fullan
• Gartner Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends 2018
• More pedagogic change in the last 10 yrs. than in the last 1,000 yrs.
-Ted Talk by Donald Clark
• Kotter’s 8 Step Process: Identifying Important Elements to
Successful Organizational Change
• Encouraging the Heart by Kouzes and Posner
• Educational technologies and twenty-first century leadership for
learning by Levin and Schrum
• 10 (Interpersonal) Traits of Innovative School Leaders by Aglio

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