Improving Your Leadership Intelligence

A Field Book for K-12 Leaders

By (author) Wanda S. Maulding Green, Edward E. Leonard

Publication date:

25 September 2017

Length of book:

190 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781475835533

Based on Leadership Intelligence: Navigating to Your True North, this book Leadership Intelligence, A Fieldbook for School Leaders, is a practical tool to aid both the novice and experienced administrator grow their leadership skillset. The fieldguide is replete with scenarios of actual K12 school incidents (including solutions and rationales) to guide the leader through analysis and reflection. Additionally, current and supporting readings along with various activities are included to aid the leader attain an improved leadership imprint for life.

Preface
Introduction: Why a Fieldbook?
Situational Judgment Tests
Chapter 1: Lessons on CREDIBILITY
Tickets to the Big Game
Under the Influence
Hot Times
Bomb Threat
Aspiring Leaders
Medically Incompetent
A Hard Pill to Swallow
Exception to the Rule
Delegation of Authority
Living the Life
A Snapshot of Reality
Failure to Launch
The First Question is Often the Toughes
Name Calling
Chapter 2: Credibility: SJT’s Authors’ Options
Chapter 3: Lessons on COMPETENCE
Leadership Orientation
Gun in the Classroom
The List
Fighting with the Principal
The Audit
There’s a Piano in My Ear
Lights Out
You’re not the Boss of Me
It’s not Rocket Science!
Down at the Tank
Mr. Mayor
Yelling
To Be or Not to Be?
Testing Strikes Again
The Bottom Line
Erasing 100 ‘Atta-Boys’
Chapter 4: COMPETENCE SJT’s Authors’ Options
Chapter 5: Lessons on the ability to INSPIRE
On the Picket Line
The Class Ring
A Cheerleading Conundrum
Get rid of the Leadership Class
The Budget is Much More than a Budget
It’s Not My Job
A Wanted Man
Define Nasty
A Complex Puzzle with Many Pieces
Publish or Perish
An Apple a Day
Time for an Intervention
From the Heart
Two Steps Forward and Three Steps Back
Chapter 6: Ability to INSPIRE SJT’s Options
Chapter 7: Lessons on VISION
A Vision
Social Media
A Storm Is Brewing
Little White Lies
Distributed Leadership
Duh
A New LeaderI Can’t see the Forest for the Trees
An Audience
Demanding to Defend
Lunch is Never Really Free
On the Road Again
Succession
Edward Scissorhands
Chapter 8: VISION SJT’s Authors’ Options
Chapter 9: Lessons on EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE/SOFT SKILLS
Advice to a Close Associate
Ma’am Step Away from the Car
A New Schedule
Feet of Clay
Sweet Clarity
Honestly?
Fun at Work?
Compassion
Of Buses and Bikinis
Twins
Self-Knowledge
Does Orientation Matter?
Collective Wisdom
Disappointment
What Goes Around Comes Around
Take Two
Empathy
Cookies, Anyone?
Chapter 10: EI/SOFT SKILLS SJT’s Authors’ Options
Authors’ Solutions
CREDIBILITY
COMPETENCE
ABILITY TO INSPIRE
VISION
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE/SOFT SKILLS
Appendix A – SMALL GROUP CARDS
Appendix B – LSI Interpretation Chart
Appendix C— Activities to Improve Your Leadership Intelligence
Notes

Finally, we have a practical guide to help real-world school leaders navigate real-world school issues! Wanda Green and Ed Leonard have used their considerable talent and experience to thoughtfully craft a guidebook which marries brainy leadership philosophy to the sometimes unpredictable world of leadership practice. The reader is presented with realistic and challenging scenarios and given the opportunity for reflection and decision-making practice. Improving Your Leadership Intelligence is everything you didn’t learn in grad school and should be required reading for all school administrators.