Leadership Concepts
JiangXi Educational Management Programme
Chris Jansen – University of Canterbury

Overview
• Leadership competency models
• Leadership vs Management
• The impact of educational
leadership on student achievement

Make a list of all the types
of leadership you can
recall…
Ie: transactional leadership
distributed leadership…

Leadership Literature
Leadership as a concept has been widely studied from multiple professional
viewpoints.
• In excess of 3000 studies focusing on leadership Stoghill (1990)
• UC Library database has record of 14 international journals with
“Leadership” in the title
• Burns (1978, 2003), Kouzes & Posner (2002), Fairholm (1998), Senge
(2004), Covey (2004), Goleman (1996), Bass (1990), Seligman
(2004), Buckingham (2001), Senge (2004), Zenger & Folkman
(2002), Jung (2003), Jaworski (1996), Collins (2001, 2005),
Cammock(2001,2008), etc
Range of Leadership Models;
• Transactional, Transformational,
Instructional, Moral, Participative,
Situational, Distributed
• Leaders as learners
• Personal vs professional
leadership, Servant leadership /
Level 5 Leadership, Sustainable
Leadership
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Kiwi Leadership for Principals
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The Zenger-Folkman Leadership Tent
CHARACTER
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ACEL Framework
(Australian Council of Educational Leadership)

Developing Chinese
Leaders in the 21st
Century
“Lessons of experiences – China research project: 2007-2009”
Based on interviews with 55 top-level executives from 6 China based
companies (state controlled and private)
Identified:
•Events – key drivers of leadership development, experiences that drive
learning and change
•Lessons - represent a shift in attitudes, values, knowledge, behaviour or
skill level – due to the key developmental events

Which of these
leadership events
have also been
significant in your
development as a
leader?

What similar lessons
have you learnt from
these events?

The Role of a Manager
Vision
Meaningful Contribution Plan
Values Organise
Engage and develop Control
People Administer systems
Create context Critique
Create Order
Leadership Management
(Vision & people driven) (Office bound/paper driven)
Commitment, Professional Compliance
Change & Hi- Technical & Status-Quo
Performance Work/Service Efficiency
Cammock (2001) The
Dance of Leadership

Management and Leadership

What proportion of your
time do you spend on
leadership vs
management roles?
Are you satisfied with
that? If not – what
change could you
initiate?

Student achievement outcomes
Organisational capacity
Leadership
capacity
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Focused in on Educational Leadership
Compared the impact of transformational and
pedagogical leadership on student achievement
Transformational leadership: emphasises vision and
inspiration, developing relationships
Pedagogical/instructional leadership: emphasises the
importance of establishing clear educational goals,
planning the curriculum, and evaluating teachers
and teaching.
Findings:
Impact of pedagogical leadership to be nearly
four times that of transformational leadership.

Relative impact of 5 leadership dimensions of
student outcomes

Related leadership knowledge, skills and
dispositions

Pedagogical/Instructional Leadership in action

Which of these
leadership factors also
impact student
achievement in the
tertiary sector?

Adaptive Leadership
Characterised by both;
• participative processes ”Surfing the Edge of Chaos’”
• collaborate solution finding
Benefits:
• Engagement, ownership leading to…
…enthusiasm/energy and commitment
• Better solutions – innovation
The Pronoun Test “I” or “We”
“My” or “Our”
“We” or “They”
Daniel Pink – “A whole new mind”
“There's only one thing better than ownership – authorship!
Simon Breakspear , “Talent Magnets”
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