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“You have to take people with you, you can’t be bullish. You have got to build collaboration
which school administrators deem efficient, timely and appropriate for the institution and
to the learners especially. Moreover, the characteristics of effective school leaders, who
are the frontiers of school governance, cannot be handpicked and laid down effortlessly
like picking rocks from sand. It involves a great deal of sifting and comparing of
Husbands and Dr. Chris Brown, which is believed to be shared by successful school
leaders, one could see that student progress and self-development were given much
emphasis whilst leaders set high expectations of success for their students. Community
partnership is also unequivocally considered by effective leaders since they build not only
a classroom-based knowledge for their individual pupils but also a wide range of
opportunities to support learning within and out of the classroom. These eight
characteristics identified by the Institute of Education (IoE) academics are exact positive
attributes of a school leader. However, the numerous ways school leaders could exhibit
additional qualities, which may be implicit to the given eight characteristics in the IoE list,
but is nonetheless crucial to successful school leadership. Among these are the balance
of strategic and operational roles and ability to manage change and understand how it
works, talent spotting, sense of moral purpose. Among these three additional attributes, I
believe talent spotting could be a lot more effective. Groping for strengths and
weaknesses among the personnel and teaching staff and using these information to get
people to their right roles, could make a great impact in introducing and implementing
change in an institution.
In totality, for leaders to uphold their authority and influence, and to pave a way for
an effective school leadership, they must possess a high level of emotional intelligence
and exercise their interpersonal skills. After all, the magic of making people do what you
want them to lies in your ability to persuade them rather than how you direct them. As the
words of Sir David Carter, “…you can’t be bullish… you have to get people to work
together.”