A Comparison of Leadership Practices Inventories Spanning Two Years
I am proud to say that I have been an educator for the past eight years. Throughout my experiences in the teaching profession, I have always had a strong desire to continue to learn and to grow professionally. Through personal research and professional development opportunities, it was clear to me that I had a desire to pursue educational leadership. It was this desire that lead to me enrolling in the Educational Leadership Masters program through City University of Seattle (CityU).
A requirement of the Educational Leadership program was to create an inventory of my attributes as a leader and also obtain survey information from colleagues regarding their perspectives of my leadership behaviours. The survey was called the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) and the purpose of this exercise was to take the …show more content…
The areas that I did not score highly on were in the sections of the LPI entitled Enabling Others to Act and Encouraging the Heart. In my reflection on the first LPI, I attributed the low scores to thinking that I was working harder than the majority of my staff while constantly placing higher expectations on those around me without giving praise or publicly recognizing the efforts of others. I had reflected that I needed to remind myself that we were all working toward the common goal of increasing the effectiveness of the educational environment in which we were working and that I needed to curb my negative thoughts towards the work ethics and habits of others. I believed that I was working harder than everyone else and that the only actions that I needed to take in order to be viewed in a higher regard as a leader in the building was to more routinely recognize the efforts of others.This outlook may have been a biased opinion from my inflated ego at the
I am proud to say that I have been an educator for the past eight years. Throughout my experiences in the teaching profession, I have always had a strong desire to continue to learn and to grow professionally. Through personal research and professional development opportunities, it was clear to me that I had a desire to pursue educational leadership. It was this desire that lead to me enrolling in the Educational Leadership Masters program through City University of Seattle (CityU).
A requirement of the Educational Leadership program was to create an inventory of my attributes as a leader and also obtain survey information from colleagues regarding their perspectives of my leadership behaviours. The survey was called the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) and the purpose of this exercise was to take the …show more content…
The areas that I did not score highly on were in the sections of the LPI entitled Enabling Others to Act and Encouraging the Heart. In my reflection on the first LPI, I attributed the low scores to thinking that I was working harder than the majority of my staff while constantly placing higher expectations on those around me without giving praise or publicly recognizing the efforts of others. I had reflected that I needed to remind myself that we were all working toward the common goal of increasing the effectiveness of the educational environment in which we were working and that I needed to curb my negative thoughts towards the work ethics and habits of others. I believed that I was working harder than everyone else and that the only actions that I needed to take in order to be viewed in a higher regard as a leader in the building was to more routinely recognize the efforts of others.This outlook may have been a biased opinion from my inflated ego at the