Leaders are Leaders are Leaders: No Matter Where

You Are
Inspiring Positive Change in Leadership

Instructional Unit
EME 620
Janet Lee and Richard Brandt

Contents
Instructional Unit.............................................................................................................................2

Instructional Unit
Title: Preparing and Delivering a Workshop for Staff
Slid
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Title
slide

Topic Title What you want to say

Ideas to represent

Leaders
are
LeadersNo Matter
Where
You Are
Introducti
on

Title slide: provide lecture

title and some kind of
interesting graphic, image, or
animation to capture learner
attention.

Preparing
and
Delivering
a
Workshop
for Staf
Leadershi
p
Quotation
s

No narration

Video about leadership

Leadership is not about the

prestige of your title
but the quality of your character.
Robin Sharma, author of the Monk
Who Sold His Ferrari

3 powerful Leadership
Quotations appear one at a
time.

no

pessimist
ever
discovered
the
secrets of the stars or
sailed
to
an
uncharted land or
opened up a new
heaven to the human
spirit.
Helen Keller
Ifyouractionsinspireothersto
dreammore,learnmore,domore
andbecomemore,youarea
leader.JohnQuincyAdams

What is

What is your effective

Image that suggests

your
efective
leadershi
p
quotation
?
Staf
Meetings

leadership quotation? If you

could add a quotation of your
own, what would it be? Take a
moment to jot down your
leadership quote.

Vygotsky
s Gradual
Release
of
Responsib
ility

When you learned to ride a

bike there were several stages
to your acquisition of the skill.
First you watched someone
else ride a bike. You saw the
free they had and the fun they
were having. You wanted the
same for yourself. Next, you
got on the bike and if you were
lucky a caring adult held on to
the seat and the bars to make
sure you didnt fall. You placed
your feet on the pedals and
started to move. Balance might
have been an issue but you
quickly compensated until the
adult released you gently in to
the wild world of bicycle
freedom! This is the gradual
release of responsibility.

Images of bike riders

Gradual
Release
Chart

You can break it down easily

for yourself.

Graph

leadership in corporate and

education worlds.

The purpose of staff meeting is Images of lectures and then

usually to disseminate
collaborative environments.
information and inspire action
with staff. The topic of our
meetings can be chosen for us,
but the delivery method is up to
our discretion. Chalk and talk
sessions with staff or lectures
are largely ineffective.
Motivating our team is part of
our duty as an effective leader.
Therefore designing workshops
involves planning and out of
the box thinking.

I do you watch

Sink or swim photo

I do you help
You do I help
You do I watch
Think of a time when you were
mentored in to action. Have
you ever heard the phrase,
sink or swim? This is not it!
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Scenarios

Next, you can choose a

scenario. Choose between
corporate or educational.
These leaders had a difficult
time with their workshops.

Slide has two choices.

Scenario
1

Principal is discussing
Differentiating Instruction
for students. She stands at
the front of the room and
shows slides of the
definitions of Content,
Process, Product and
Environment. She opens
the floor for discussion of
the topic. It quickly
deteriorates in to
naysaying behavior that
gets out of control. The
union representative gets
involved talking about the
limitations of Principals
control. In the end, the
Principal requires the entire
staff to turn in a lesson
plan that illustrates how
the subject areas are
already doing it. This
deliverable is something
that gets handled by a new
teacher from each subject
area or the department
leader. The example will be
a simple check off the list
of responsibilities and no
true change will have
occurred. What do you

Include the text and a

frustrated look on educators
face

think could have been done

differently?
10

Scenario
2

Mary has the responsibility of

rolling out a new policy
document to her staff. She
gave them the document at the
beginning of the meeting and
gave her staff five minutes to
read it. Next, she asked, Are
there any questions? The
room was silent. Her staff
sighed and many raised their
eyebrows to see the new
changes to the policy. Mary,
handed out paper and asked
her staff to record any
questions for later.

Policy Document pic

Eyebrows raised

11

Gradual
release
chart

Gradual Release Chart

Use the scenario to fill out the
chart. What could have been
done differently? How could the
leader change their workshop
to help motivate staff to positive
learning and action?

12

Discussio
n

Reflect on your changes

and write a 400 word
response in the space
below.

Short answer form

13

Reflect

Refer back to your

leadership quotation from
the beginning of the
session. Has your view
changed? If not, why not? If
so, how has it changed?

Picture of star

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Final slide Summary of session

In this session, you learned
about the gradual release
of responsibility as it
pertains to workshops with
staff. Refer back to your
chart when designing
effective workshops in the

Bullet points

future and fill in the gaps of

your instruction where
necessary.
Link to the instructional unit: https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/1020515
Link to Preparing and Delivering an Effective Workshop:
http://www.everythingjanetlee.com/leebrandtleadership/story.html