From Leading to Succeeding: The Seven Elements of Effective Leadership in Education

by Douglas Reeves

Utilizing the crucial elements of effective leadership purpose, trust, focus, leverage, feedback, change, and sustainability education leaders can overcome the many challenges they face in their profession and learn the skills and characteristics they need to succeed. This book synthesizes research from 21st century sources and confronts prevalent leadership myths, while offering guidance on best leadership practices. Use this professional development tool to establish a clear mission and enact vision statements.

Benefits

Learn about the seven elements of leadership and why they are important to building trust between colleagues. Study the best research available on leadership, coming from diverse research methods and perspectives. Gain guidance on how to tell the difference between best and worst practices in leadership. Examine elements to assess whether an organization is ready for change. Explore a model for reflecting on, self-assessing, and synthesizing leadership experiences and research on effective leadership.

Contents

Purpose Trust Focus Leverage Feedback Change Sustainability "

Genres: Education, Nonfiction

136 pages, Perfect Paperback

Published May 27, 2016

Reviews

[Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

Don't judge a book by its size because this short books provides lots of great ideas by using 7 elements of leadership: purpose, trust, focus, leverage, feedback, change, and sustainability. Reeves had me at hello with his points about the illusions of mission and vision and how we must be and do who we say we are and what we say we believe. Reeves explains how we overcomplicate our purpose/mission and points to the best business models.

Reeves reminds us that in a world full of educational initiatives, we need to prioritize and focus on the very best and determine the best strategies for rolling out change. I especially enjoyed page 37 with the 4 levels of implementation and pages 83 - 85 with the readiness assessment chart.

Oh, his comments about homework are spot on and timely. Our district has been researching homework policies. And his comments about feedback are particularly pertinent to the work my school is completing this year.

All educational leaders (not just administrators) should read this book.

[SquidneyReads · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read for Intro to Educational Leadership class.

[Jeni Enjaian · Rating 3 out of 5]

We completed the reading of this book in a jigsaw activity in one night in my class. I found the information easy to read and insightful but not new or enlightening. I read my assigned chapter the night of class and in less than an hour on Saturday read the rest of the book. Will I ever read it again or refer to it? Probably not.

[Renee Doucette · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh. A few good chapters. A few concepts to hold on to. Didn't love the tone.

[Laura Smith Ramsborg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent leadership text—highly recommended.