PRINCIPLES OF LEADERSHIP

“There are four ingredients in true leadership: brains, soul, heart and nerves.” --Klaus
Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum

o Leadership principles are the set of actions or guiding beliefs that leaders can implement

to move them toward success. How well an organization, company or business performs

is directly related to how effectively the leader motivates and guides their employees.

o Leadership principles are a framework of actions you can take as a leader to inspire

others to work together toward a common goal and they are the foundation for success.

11 Basic Principles of Leadership and the means for Implementing them:

1. Be technically proficient:
2. Develop a sense of responsibility in your workers
3.Ensure that tasks are understood, supervised, and accomplished:
4. Keep your workers informed.
5. Know your people and look out for their well-being
6. Know yourself and seek self-improvement
7. Make sound and timely decisions.
8. Seek responsibility and take responsibility for your actions
9. Set the example
10. Train as a team.
11. Use the full capabilities of your organization
o Effective educational leadership is very essential to school effectiveness and
improvement.
(Ololube, Egbezor, Kpolovie, & Amaele, 2012).
Principles of Sustainable Leadership
 Sustainable leadership creates and preserves sustaining learning.
 Sustainable leadership secures success over time.
 Sustainable leadership sustains the leadership of others.
 Sustainable leadership addresses issues of social justice.
 Sustainable leadership develops rather than depletes human and material resources
 Sustainable leadership develops environmental diversity and capacity
 Sustainable leadership undertakes activist engagement with the environment

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more and do more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams