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"he old-fashioned view of leadership is that leaders are marked out for leadership from early on in their lives, and that if you're not a born leader, there's little that you can do to become one. That's not the way we see it now. The modern view is that through patience, persistence and hard work, you can be a truly effective leader, just as long as you make the effort needed. The articles in this section (which are drawn from our How to Lead: Discover the Leader Within You course) help you develop your leadership skills so that you, too, can become an exceptional leader."

A critical difference here is that serving people, for a servant, is an end in itself, not a way to achieve other goals. It should be noted that this critique of servant leadership is based on a total separation of leadership and management

Standards for Advanced Programs in Educational Leadership

Standards for Advanced Programs in Educational Leadership (EELC)

In order to be able to properly understand the six leadership styles Goleman introduces in his book Primal Leadership (2002, with Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee), it is useful you first understand his human communication / interaction concept of resonance. In the view of Goleman, good leaders are effective because they create resonance.

In the view of Goleman, good leaders are effective because they create resonance.

"Model and facilitate best practices with administrative leadership for supporting personalized learning."

What are the leadership styles that are most effective in leading change and especially in the current environment?

The core of transactional leadership lies in the notion that the leader, who holds power and control over his or her employees or followers, provides incentives for followers to do what the leader wants.

SLS - School Leadership Series The School Leadership Series consists of two assessments: The School Superintendent Assessment and the School Leaders Licensure Assessment.

The Educational Leadership editors are pleased to bring you this Index to Volume 67 of Educational Leadership magazine.

"The efficacy construct refers to peoples' beliefs about and confidence in their abilities to attain success in their actions. The purpose of this research is to advance the study of school administrators' efficacy through a unique model and measure designed to target the confidence of school administrators in performing a variety of leadership/management tasks. An instrument was created to measure school administrators' efficacy levels, based on the Educational Leadership Constituent Council (ELCC) Standards. A sample of 367 early career principals and principal trainees was surveyed. Through factor analysis, eight dimensions of school administrator efficacy were derived. Based on Cronbach's Alpha, the instrument has high reliability; thus, this instrument can serve as a consistent tool in evaluating school administrators' efficacy levels."

Maryland Instructional Leadership Framework

Maryland Instructional Leadership Framework \n

James Kouzes and Barry Posner developed a survey (The Leadership Practices Inventory) that asked people which, of a list of common characteristics of leaders, were, in their experiences of being led by others, the seven top things they look for, admire and would willingly follow. And over twenty years, they managed ask this of seventy five thousand people.

"Through this document, I am trying to accomplish two things. First, I am attempting to weave together two sets of standards for school leaders, the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards for School Leaders (2008) and the National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators (NETS-A) (2009). Second, I am trying to map technology tools/applications onto those standards. My hope is that this will become a guidance document for anyone who works with sitting and aspiring school leaders and who wants to better bring together the fields of educational leadership and educational technology."

Chris McGoff, on using visual tools to help organizations successfully implement change | SmartBlog on Leadership

Short videos about accountability, assessment, data, instruction, leadership, school improvement and standards.

Educational Leadership Policy Standards: ISLLC 2008

"Inspiration is in short supply in America today. Gallup reports that only 28 percent of US employees are "engaged" at work. The majority are either disengaged or "actively disengaged." A global recession, lay-offs and scandals have left many employees discouraged, disillusioned and demoralized. It doesn't have to be that way. As a leader, you have the ability to inspire, energize and to positively influence your team if you learn the language of motivation."

"Here are ten ideas I have learned in the 30 years since I became a principal. "

"Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers -- and as a counterpoint Tivo, which (until a recent court victory that tripled its stock price) appeared to be struggling"