This is my Leadership discipline message on Reflection and Balance, Relational Energy and FLOW...

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PLC 2012 Institute
Living in the FLOW of your PLC “Be, Know, Do!”
Leadership Life!
The reality is that on most days your leadership
work exhausts you. You are trying really
When did you decide that you
hard… wanted to BE a leader,
Your true leadership work, is to train in the teacher and an influencer of
disciplines that will enable you to lead well,
and that will transform who you are as a PLC
other adults?
school leader.
Timothy D. Kanold
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PLC
Leadership
Disciplines:
1 2 3 4 5
Vision Action Plusing Energy Inspiring
 A set of actions you intentionally practice,
through continuous training, to improve
your ability to lead.
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Discipline of Service
Discipline of
and Sharing
Reflection and
Balance
Better at …
Better at …
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Is Your Positive and High Energy Is Your Positive and High Energy
Relational Intelligence Important? Relational Intelligence Important?
Kouzes and Posner (2006) Rath and Conchie (2008)
The single best predictor of Weaknesses: 9%
career success…
Strengths: 73%
Is the quality of your
relationship with your Full Engagement
very first supervisor
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Is Your Positive and High Energy Is Your Positive and High Energy
Relational Intelligence Important? Relational Intelligence Important?
Pheffer and Sutton (2008) Pheffer and Sutton (2008)
75% report the worse aspect of Poor relational leaders will drive
the job is their motivated workers out of the
Immediate supervisor… profession, or even worse
cause them to withhold
discretionary effort…
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Discipline of Service Is Your Positive High Relational
Energy Important?
and Sharing
 Daniel Goleman…
You are to foster a relational capacity
The leadership work among the various adults in your
of… sphere, recognizing when it is low,
and if so, providing
immediate feedback
for improvement.
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You and I are wired up to connect You and I are wired up to connect
with others… with others…
Nourishing relationships have a “how we connect with others has
beneficial impact on our health, unimagined significance…. In effect,
while toxic ones can act like slow being chronically hurt and angered,
or being emotionally nourished by
poison to our bodies” (p. 5).
someone we spend time with daily
over the course of years can refashion
our brain” (p. 11).
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Improving Your Relational
Intelligence FLOW
The best moments of our lives are not
 On page 1 – rate yourself 1-10 on the
the passive receptive, relaxing times –
Four factors of emotional intelligence although such experiences can be
enjoyable. The best moments usually
 When you are ready, let’s do a “Feet occur when a person’s body or mind
Meet and Greet”! are stretched to its limits in a voluntary
effort to accomplish something difficult
…choose one of these and discuss how and worthwhile.
you might improve… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The Flow Channel The Flow Channel
Place a mark (label the mark) for
each grade level or course based
learning team in your school or
district that you lead or are a part
of…
Identify all Teams that fall in each
category – T1- T4.
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PLC FLOW Strategies
PLC FLOW Strategies
(Backside of the Flow Chart)
 1. Establish Clear goals: Are  2. Limited number of goals: Is
expectations and goals there a high degree of team
attainable? Do they align concentration on a limited
appropriately with the skill set number of tasks?
and abilities of the team?
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PLC FLOW Strategies PLC FLOW Strategies
 3. Direct and immediate feedback:  4. Balance: How will the Team
How will the team receive feedback leader measure the teams’ ability
on what is working and not working - or knowledge and skill level
successes and failures - during the
against the challenge level of the
course of implementing team
required tasks? Does the team have task? How is this issue monitored
a “Formative Way” to adjust their throughout the school year?
work on the task actions throughout
the school year?
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PLC FLOW Strategies Moving Teams into the FLOW
Channel…
 5. Autonomy: Does the team  Using your team FLOW
have a sense of personal control diagnostic chart…
over how to perform the task or
activity? The activity must
become intrinsically rewarding, in  Identify Your 2012-2013
order to create an effortlessness actions that might help to
of action by the team. improve a teams’ position
along the FLOW Channel…
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Is Your Positive High Relational
Energy Important? Discipline of
Reflection and
Balance
Better at …
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The Art of Full Engagement in Living the Quadrant I and II Life!
Your Work…
Are you in an energy crisis? Read Section III
Highlight what connects for you…
Faulty assumption thinking… Use a “First Word-
Last Word” to shoulder
“The because I can partner share…
syndrome”…
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High Energy
Full Engagement
and in the FLOW Signs I am drifting into Quadrant
≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈
III
Quadrant III Quadrant I
High Negative High Positive
Angry Helpful  Constant impatience – lots of
Fearful Hopeful
Anxious Joyful physical tension
Defensive Connected
Negative
Resentful Confident
Positive
 Relationships lack depth – weak
Energy Energy connections with family and friends
Quadrant IV
Low Negative
Quadrant II
Low Positive  Lack of passion – undermines
Depressed
Exhausted
Reflective
Serene persistence and commitment
Burned Out Relaxed
Hopeless Tranquil  Lack of time – constantly late and
Defeated Peaceful
unable to keep up with tasks
Low Energy
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Avoiding Quadrants III and IV Avoiding Quadrants III and IV
1) Hang out with exceptionally inspiring The Red Queen Effect… “it takes all the
people running you can do to stay in the
2) Participate in events that are same place”
exceptionally inspiring to me
3) Pay attention to my
physical disciplines and
how I multi-task
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Too much time in QI or QIII will
Avoiding Quadrants III and IV send you into Q IV!
4) Pay attention to my working
environment  Your legacy goal to be your best
5) Have an inspiring recreation outside as a teacher and leader is internal
of my work world balance – being fully engaged in
Quadrant I while strategically
engaging in Quadrant II activity…
And only YOU can know what this is
for you…
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Living in the Flow of your PLC
The Stakes Are High Leadership Life!
Failure to create a culture of reflection The reality is that on most days your leadership
and internal balance will leave too work exhausts you. You are trying really
many members of the PLC stranded in hard…
Quadrants III and IV… Your true leadership work, is to train in the
disciplines that will enable you to lead well,
They will be ineffective in their jobs, they and that will transform who you are as a PLC
will be difficult to be around, they will be school leader.
toxic to the improvement of the school
as a whole…
—and no one will notice
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