MB 6000A - Distributed Leadership for Effective Organizations

1 lecture hours 0 lab hours 1 credits

Wisconsin Administrator Standards, Learning Outcomes, and Performance Indicators addressed in this course:

2.0         The administrator leads by facilitating the development, articulation, implementation, and stewardship of a vision of learning that is shared by the school community

• Define a collaborate process for approval of a shared vision for the organization

4.0         The administrator ensures management of the organization, operations, finance and resources for a safe, efficient and effective learning environment

• Describe governance structure within the organization, including decision-making processes and authority structures
• Describes key tenets of distributed leadership
• Critique current leadership processes with a given organization through a distributed leadership lens
• Recommend distributed leadership strategies to build capacity for achieving enhanced performance
• Create a plan to foster distributed leadership skills among employees
• Describe key factors that result in a creative and innovative organization
• Identify key factors of leadership and management that are universal and apply across all types of organizations
• Contrast global ethical issues with regional ethical issues as related to management and leadership
• Guide disparate groups of people to deliver organizational goals
• Select key business and management practices appropriate for a given scenario

2.9         Communicate effectively orally and in writing

2.9.6      Describe and apply the key elements of a persuasive presentation

5.0         The administrator models collaborating with families and community members, responding to diverse community interests and needs, and mobilizing community resources             

• Identify theories that describe and explain the actions of individuals and groups with a system and subsystem
• Given a scenario, describe the likely motivation behind individual and group behavior using theory-based analysis
• Define organizational conditions necessary to support, develop and change organizational initiatives/projects
• Develop a system to routinely foster communication and collaboration between stakeholders and peers
• Consider multiple viewpoints and perspectives in key decision-making activities

6.0         The administrator acts with integrity, fairness, and in an ethical manner

• Use an ethical analysis framework to resolve ethical conflicts
• Apply an ethical framework to a specific scenario to identify ethical issues
• Generate several different options for addressing an ethical dilemma

6.5         Model principles of self-awareness, reflective practice, transparency, and ethical behavior

6.5.1      Describe the personality characteristics and traits of effective leaders

6.5.2      Conduct an analysis of personal leadership skills and abilities and formulate a personal growth plan

6.5.3      Use self-reflection to integrate new learning on education leadership into a personal growth plan

6.5.5      Develop and maintain a professional development plan

6.6         Create and implement a personal leadership plan to support on-going development of a specified range of leadership skills and abilities

7.0         The administrator understands, responds to, and interacts with a larger political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context that affects schooling

• Applies the tenets of distributed leadership to a variety of different scenarios which frequently occur in complex organizations
• Identifies the major theories of organizations and articulates their explanatory, analytic, and predictive use