Leading Your Team to Greatness -- Jason Sarsfield -- National Charter Schools Institute (Learning Forward 2014 Annual Conference, 12/8/2014)

LEADING YOUR TEAM
TO GREATNESS
LEARNING FORWARD 2014 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
DECEMBER 8, 2014
JASON SARSFIELD

National Charter Schools Institute
• The Institute is a values-driven, nonprofit organization
founded in 1995.
• Our mission is to strengthen the performance and
productivity of the charter schools sector.
• We coach and consult with boards, schools, authorizers,
support organizations and policymakers.
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• We seek to understand, honor and support our clients.
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Goals for Today
Share a Framework for
Greatness
Strengthen & Support
Leaders
Inspire Hearts & Minds
Answer Questions
Have Fun!
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“People don’t care how
much you know until they
know how much you care.”

“Good is the enemy
of great.”
Jim Collins

What Is Greatness?
Superior Performance
Distinctive Impact
Lasting Endurance

Collins’ Good-to-Great Framework
OUTPUT RESULTS
INPUT PRINCIPLES
STAGE 1: DISCIPLINED PEOPLE
Level 5 Leadership
First Who, Then What
STAGE 2: DISCIPLINED THOUGHT
Confront the Brutal Facts
The Hedgehog Concept
STAGE 3: DISCIPLINED ACTION
Culture of Discipline
The Flywheel
STAGE 4: BUILDING GREATNESS
TO LAST
Clock Building,
Not Time Telling
Preserve Core,
Stimulate Progress
DELIVERS SUPERIOR
PERFORMANCE
Relative to Its Mission
MAKES A DISTINCTIVE IMPACT
On the Communities
It Touches
ACHIEVES LASTING ENDURANCE
Beyond Any Leader,
Idea or Setback

“Greatness . . . is largely a
matter of conscious
choice and discipline.”
Jim Collins

The First Person You Lead Is Yourself
“Know
Thyself”
Who Said…

The Most Consistently Admired
Characteristics of Leaders
Honest
Forward-Looking
Competent
Inspiring

How Leaders Earn Credibility
• “They practice what they preach.”
• “They walk the talk.”
• “Their actions are consistent with their words.”
• “They put their money where their mouth is.”
• “They follow through on their promises.”
• “They do what they say they will do.”
The Leadership Challenge

Five Practices of Exemplary Leaders
Model the Way
Inspire a Shared Vision
Challenge the Process
Enable Others to Act
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5 Encourage the Heart
Kouzes and Posner
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Level 5 Leaders
• Ambitious first and foremost for
the cause, the organization,
the work — not themselves.
• Display a paradoxical blend of
personal humility and
professional will.

Chickens and Pigs!

How clear is your organization about its ...
Vision
Mission
What is the organization really trying to accomplish?
Is it compelling? Will it make a significant difference?
How will the organization proceed with making this
vision a reality?
Values What are the core things the organization will use to
guide and evaluate all of its actions and behaviors?

WHAT REALLY MATTERS
Ensuring all students
are prepared for success in
college, work and life.

“Doing everything keeps
us so busy we don’t have
time to think about what is
really important to us.”

The Power of Clarifying Values
TEAMWORK
• We recognize that no one of us is as good as all of us.
• We will put the team’s goals before our own.
• We will collaborate.
• We can be relied upon to fulfill commitments.
• We are accountable for ourselves and to each other.
• We will celebrate our successes and have fun.

Where Do You
Spend Time?
First Things First

Four Disciplines
of a Healthy
Organization

1: Build a Cohesive Leadership Team
Cohesive teams develop trust,eliminate
politics and increase efficiency by…
• Knowing one another’s unique strengths
and weaknesses
• Openly engaging in constructive,
ideological conflict
• Holding one another accountable for
behaviors and actions
• Committing to group decisions.

Healthy organizations minimize the
potential for confusion by clarifying…
• Why do we exist?
• How do we behave?
• What do we do?
• How will we succeed?
• What is most important — right now?
• Who must do what?
2: Create Clarity

3: Over-Communicate Clarity
Healthy organizations align their employees around
organizational clarity by communicating key messages through …
• Repetition: Don’t be afraid to repeat the same message again
and again.
• Simplicity: The more complicated the message, the more
potential for confusion and inconsistency.
• Multiple Mediums: People react to information in many ways;
use a variety of mediums.
• Cascading Messages: Leaders communicate key messages
to direct reports; the cycle repeats itself until the message is
heard by all.

Organizations sustain their health
by ensuring consistency in…
• Hiring
• Managing performance
• Rewards and recognition
• Employee dismissal.
4: Reinforce Clarity

Resources for Pursuing Greatness
Good-to-Great Diagnostic Tool
www.jimcollins.com/tools.html
The Advantage
Comprehensive Check List
www.tablegroup.com
Institute for Excellence in Education
www.ExcellenceInEd.org
Illinois Mathematics and
Science Academy
www.imsa.edu
IIT Boeing Scholars Academy
blogs.iit.edu/boeing_scholars/
Chicago Scholars
(88% to-and-through college in 6 yrs.)
www.ChicagoScholars.org
Project Lead The Way
www.pltw.org

The Five
Temptations
of a CEO

“Set the standards higher
for yourself than others
would set them for you.”
John Maxwell

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