Leadership Styles

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by Heather Shannon12 views·Updated Apr 8, 2022
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  1. Hi I'm heather Shannon and I'm here today
  2. to talk to you about to leadership theories.
  3. The two theories of leadership that I have chosen to compare and contrast today.
  4. Our servant leadership and transactional leadership.
  5. Both theories of leadership are commonly found in a variety
  6. of professions in and out of the educational field.
  7. Servant leadership is focusing on the needs of others, especially team members.
  8. Before you consider your own
  9. leaders who lead through servant leadership
  10. are focused on listening and empathizing with their followers
  11. in the art of servant leadership. By Mark Trawl.
  12. Oh he states that servant leaders possess to serve first mindset and
  13. they're focused on empowering and uplifting those who work for them.
  14. They are serving instead of commanding,
  15. showing humility instead of brandishing authority
  16. and always looking to enhance the development of their staff members in a way
  17. that unlocked potential
  18. creativity and sense of purpose.
  19. Servant leadership is also closely related to relational leadership.
  20. Both relational and servant leaders strive to foster personal growth and inspire
  21. those early in their careers to become leaders of the future,
  22. transactional leadership is a managerial leadership style.
  23. The management study guide defines this style of leadership as
  24. a basic management process of controlling organizing and short term planning
  25. and the power of the transactional leaders comes from
  26. their formal authority and responsibility in the organization.
  27. The main goal of the follower is to obey the instructions of the leader
  28. in my current district.
  29. I have reflected on the many types of leaders we have and have
  30. determined that the individuals who lead our
  31. professional learning communities known as P.
  32. L. C. S.
  33. Tend to exhibit more of the transactional leadership style.
  34. They are focused on short term goals that
  35. are based on data derived from student testing.
  36. Both district and state based.
  37. These individuals often have great ideas of how to
  38. increase student success.
  39. But in reality many other factors interfere with meeting the goals,
  40. similarities are they are both goal oriented and take corrective action as needed.
  41. The differences between the two leadership styles is
  42. the methods used to measure success of the leader
  43. for a servant leader.
  44. The success is measured by the growth of those they are leading and inspiring.
  45. Pat politico tells leaders to get over
  46. yourself and realize that business objectives,
  47. whatever they are,
  48. will not be reached without sharing the load and responsibility.
  49. You are no longer an individual performer.
  50. You are a leader. She says
  51. leaders are enablers
  52. that's your work.
  53. A servant leader leans on teamwork to get the job done right
  54. for a transactional leader.
  55. The success is measured by others performance on achieving
  56. or not achieving a goal within the time frame.
  57. This leadership style is a system of rewards and punishments.
  58. When employees meet the goal,
  59. they are rewarded and when employees do not meet the goal, they are sanctioned
  60. in a school setting.
  61. This is when a state tested subject team is praised or
  62. shamed by campus or district leaders based on the student's performance.
  63. There are specific scenarios when each of these
  64. leadership style should be used in educational setting.
  65. As previously stated,
  66. the leaders of the PLC s tend to be more transactional in their leadership style.
  67. I also view the leadership of the human resources
  68. director within a school district to be transactional.
  69. They are working to ensure that each campus has the right amount
  70. of personnel to meet the needs of the campus on paper but
  71. can often miss the needs that are difficult to describe based on
  72. ratios and other factors have they actually visited the campus in person.
  73. Servant leadership is a style that I witnessed most often around my current campus,
  74. especially as a coach and department chair for special education.
  75. In my coaching experience,
  76. we often teach servant leadership to our athletes throughout the seasons.
  77. Tarallo States,
  78. servant leadership takes the traditional power leadership
  79. model and turns it completely upside down.
  80. It puts the people at the top and the leader
  81. at the bottom charged with serving the employees above them.
  82. Many of our teams leaders exhibit a team first mentality
  83. and strive to put their teammates needs before their own
  84. as a special education department here,
  85. I also practice servant leadership and try to focus
  86. on the needs of my coworkers before my own.
  87. Many of my coworkers within special education are also coaches
  88. throughout the school year and sports seasons.
  89. I take into account the time commitments that their sports require along
  90. with the balancing of the number of students on their caseload.
  91. We have a number of new students who enroll throughout the year,
  92. and I worked hard to help ease the burden of paperwork for those
  93. coworkers who may be absent due to the beginning of the season,
  94. tournaments or nearing the end of their season and making long playoff runs.
  95. Here's a list of my references that I've used in
  96. reviewing these two leadership theories have a great day.