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Transformational Leadership Dr. Phil Warrick

Associate Vice President Marzano Research

MARZANO Research Laboratory


Leadership

•  Life develops leaders naturally over time.

•  Collaboration in leadership can speed up the process.


Education Leadership

Only those with courage need apply

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Finding Your Leadership Compass

Leadership is about action, not position.


Transformational Leaders

•  Understand leadership as an organizational process, not an individual process.

•  Have specific leadership values and habits that inform their actions as a leader.

•  Are reflective in their practices and are continually learning from mentors.

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Critical Habits For Transformational Leadership


Have a purpose bigger than self.



A Purpose Bigger Than Self: Creating the conditions in which others can be successful.

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School Improvement … Means People Improvement Effective leaders help those they lead feel more capable by___________________.

Leaders of Learning

(DuFour & Marzano, 2011)


Servant Leadership

Paradox: Through being a servant, a leader grows his or her influence as a leader.


Servant Leadership Made Easy

•  Work in any setting.

•  Work with any person or issue.

•  Work without complaint.

•  Work honestly.

(Heider, The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age, 1985)

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Have a core set of beliefs that guide their decisions.



Wallace Foundation Study

What actions and behaviors are most associated with high- performing principals?

Establish a vision centered on high student achievement which includes “personal vision.”

What is your personal vision for the school, department, or team you lead?


Effective Leaders … Establish a common framework of research-based strategies for achieving their identified goals.

Leaders of Learning (DuFour & Marzano, 2011)

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Engage others in critical conversations.

Transformational Leadership


“Critical Conversations”

•  Critical doesn’t mean combative…. •  If two people always agree…one of them

isn’t necessary.


When soul enters the conversation, people will listen.

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High-Performing School Systems Study

In every instance … The first step effective leaders took to improve their systems was to clarify … what was non-negotiable.

Referenced in DuFour & Marzano, Leaders of Learning (2011)

How The World’s Most Improved School Systems Keep Getting Better

(Mourshed, Chijioke, & Barber, 2010)


Remain centered in times of crisis.



Sources of Crisis •  Manufactured Crisis

– There is a certain level of dysfunction in all organizations.

•  Change will almost always cause crisis for someone.

•  Human or personal crisis will visit when you least expect it.

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All types of crises have a critical factor in common.



The Ripple Effect

•  The leader’s behavior influences others through a ripple effect.

•  Ripple effects work because people influence other people.

•  People with power cause bigger ripples.

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Crisis and Opportunity

Times of turmoil provide leaders with an opportunity to emerge with a vision. The greatest opportunities are usually disguised as tough situations.


Have courage to act when others do not.



Every now and then you are going to have to plant your feet, stand firm, and make a point about what you believe in.

(Riley, The Winner Within: A Life Plan for Team Players, 1994)

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High Reliability Organizations

•  Continually monitor for errors in critical factors of their operation.

•  Immediately take action to keep those errors from becoming systemwide failures.

As referenced in Marzano, Warrick, & Simms,

A Handbook for High Reliability Schools (in press)


Develop their own replacements.



The Art of Leadership

Develop more leaders and leave a legacy of leadership.

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Effective Leaders …

Recognize that the ability to lead is not the private reserve of a few extraordinary people or those in particular positions of authority.



“No single person has all the knowledge, skills, and talent to lead a district, improve a school, or meet all the needs of every child in his or her classroom.”



Collective leadership has more of an influence on learning than any individual source.

The Wallace Study

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•  The last full measure of a successful leader….is the number of leaders they have created in their wake.


Display positivity, hope, and optimism.

Transformational Leadership


Positivity and Negativity •  Both are powerful.

•  Both are contagious.

•  Gallup study – 65 percent of all employees receive no

recognition in the workplace.

(Rath & Clifton, How Full Is Your Bucket?, 2005)

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Higher Productivity

•  Study of workgroups and their positive to negative interactions ratio.

•  Organizations with least 3:1 positive to negative interactions had significantly higher productivity.

(Rath & Clifton, How Full Is Your Bucket?, 2005)



Critical Habits = Leadership Compass

•  Purpose bigger than self •  Core set of beliefs that guide decisions •  Engage others in critical conversations •  Remain centered in times of crisis •  Have courage to act when others do not •  Develop your own replacements •  Display positivity, hope, and optimism

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