Leadership in VET

Leadership in VET

To warm up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjJg9NfTXos&feature=player_detailpage

Leadership in VET

Popular Management and Leadership distinction

To do the things right vs doing the right things.

Makes people cut trees faster vs “the wrong forest!!”

Puts the ladder in the right place and let management climb it

Leadership in VET

The fluid distinction

Manager

• do things right;

• seek control, create and follow the rules;

• focus on how things should be done;

• seek compliance;

• value secrecy;

• use formal authority (hierarchy).

Leader

* do the right things;

* see people as great assets;

* seek commitment;

* focus on outcomes;

* see what could be done and why;

* share information;

* promote networks

Leadership in VET

Do you fit your profile?

12 competence profiles for VET Leaders in the Netherlands

The National Associations Governance Code

40 different traits characteristics demands or competences

Leadership in VET

All we need is……

Visionary

Communicator

Entrepreneural

Result-oriented

Cooperative

Teambuilder

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And on the side….

Networker

Binding personality

Integrity

Accountable

Experienced in complexity

Sensitive

Inspiring

Leadership in VET

Not very VET specific

Integrity

Authentic

Sensitive

Inspiring

Empathetic

Resultoriented

Must like children…….

Leadership in VET

Will wish lists make the dream come true?

A real human being

What makes the difference

Are wish lists often or not put aside.

“I will take the red one”

Leadership in VET

What is leadership?

Blake and Mouton to Covey

Descriptive or analytical

Nature or Nurture

Inherent or attributive

Contextual or creational

Moral or profesional

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Leading a professional?

DON’T !!!!!!!!

Mattieu Weggeman

Leadership in VET

What is a professional??

Results of a survey…….

Leadership in VET

What is a professional

1. A soccer player

2. A boxer

3. A physician/surgeon

12 A teacher

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Requirements for a professional

Permanent Education

Rules of conduct

Profesional conventions and standards

Employer directives

Client power

Leadership in VET

Rules of conduct

Permanent Education

Client power

VET-teacher

Employer directives

Professional conventions

and standards

Professional

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Leadership in VET

Leading a professional

Requires a professional to lead

So the circles must match the behavior of the professional

Requires a professional manager/leader

So also for them the circles must match the behavior

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Leading a Professional

Yes!!

But do it professionally and develop and require profesionals in those functions

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But remember:

We are all amateurs …

life is to short

to become a professional

Charlie Chaplin

Leadership in VET

What does literature say (1)

Blake and Mouton1964

Leadership in VET

What does literature say (2) Know yourself and aim at selfimprovement

Know your trade

Take up responsible tasks and act responsibly

Take good and timely decisions

Give the good example

Know your people and take care of their welfare

Inform your people

Develop a sense of responsibility with your people

Ensure that tasks are well understood, guided and accomplished

Train your people to act like a team

Use all the capacities in the team that are available

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What does literature say (3) Quinn

IntegratorPeople orientedMentor Stimulator

InnovatorInnovationorientationInnovatorMediator

ControllerControl orientedcoordinator

OperationalProducer Director

High

Flexibility

Low

Internal ExternalOrientation

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What does literature say (4) Hersey and Blanchard

Support

Country club

Coach

Teamwork

Delegate

Bureaucracy

Tell/ direct

Assembly line

High

SupportiveBehavior

low

High Directive behavior low

WILL

SKILL

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What does literature say (5) Covey

A good leader helps people to develop their potential and inspires others to do the same

Leadership in VET

8 habits Be proactive

Begin with the goal in mind

Set priorities

Think in win-win terms

Understand first then be understood

Synergy

Continuous improvement

Live from your own force and inspire others to do the same

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Humor or reality

Scott Adams /Dilbert

Peter Principle

Management by Hypocricy

Freudian Leadership

Voicing leadership

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Scott Adams

Leaders are people that are being paid to stay away as far from the primary process as possible to ensure that they will not disrupt it”

Leadership in VET

Peter Principle

People get promoted to the point that they have reached a level that they are inadequate for.

Leadership in VET

Management by hypocrisy

Leadership and managemnt primary function is to keep the illusion of control in place.

Once they have demonstrated not to be able to do that they get a lot of money to leave

This is a rational process

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Freudian Leadership

A good leader is the leader that behaves like the parent I would have liked to have

Leadership in VET

Cooling down: On future Leadership

http://www.ted.com/talks/adora_svitak.html