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Ken, Nels and Joe reveal the quality management principles and collaborative leadership skills that led to amazing results for them, while detailing the practices necessary for educators to achieve the same outcomes in their schools.
List of contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: The Need for a Different Kind of Leadership
Chapter Two: The Need for Outstanding Working Relationships
Chapter Three: Becoming a Collaborative Leader
Chapter Four: Developing Outstanding Teamwork
Chapter Five: Uniting Behind a Shared Vision and Focused Goals
Chapter Six: Building Cycles of Success
Conclusion: Renewing Your School's Educational Systems
Appendices:
Appendix A: A Guide to Effective Meetings
Appendix B: A Guide to Consensus
Appendix C: Opening Exercises
Appendix D: The Working Values (one page)
Appendix E: The One-Page Improvement Plan
Appendix F: Vision-Setting Exercises
Appendix G: Goal-Setting Exercises
Appendix H: Planning and Problem-Solving Tools
Appendix I: Sample Survey Questions
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Dr. Kenneth B. Cooper has been a professional educator for thirty-nine years. For twenty-two of those years he served as principal of the Paul F. Doyon Memorial School in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
Nels Gustafson is a former Human Resources Director and Chief Labor Negotiator for the Sylvania Corporation. He directed Sylvania's initial program of quality management and has extensive experience in issues related to leadership and working relationships.
Joseph G. Salah has specialized in school-improvement consulting for the last nineteen years; prior to that he has experience in the military, local government, and with for-profit and non-profit organizations. He has a continuing interest in matters related to leadership processes, working relationships, and behavioral change.
Summary
Ken, Nels and Joe reveal the quality management principles and collaborative leadership skills that led to amazing results for them, while detailing the practices necessary for educators to achieve the same outcomes in their schools.
