Leading with Heart in Times of Cardiac Arrest

1. Leading with Heart in Times of Cardiac Arrest Christy Chambers, EdD CEC President

2. Who’s here? • Teachers • Administrators • Gen • Related Services Support Personnel • Parents • Students • Policy Makers • Others

3. Leading with Heart in Times of Cardiac Arrest • Defining leadership • Identifying who can be a leader • Remembering who has influenced us • Considering the value of relationships • Examining Head, Heart and Hands theory

4. Approach • Have you thought about this? • How good are you at this?

5. How do you define leadership?

6. How do you define leadership? Knowledge Respect Action oriented Confidence Heart Has followers Communication Visionary Influence Manager Supportive Transformational Listener Facilitator Accessible Shares leadership Humor Encourager Takes risks Role Model Gets things done and more……….

7. Can everyone lead? Is everyone on your team a leader? Should everyone be a leader? Can everyone become a leader? Why or why not???

8. Johnny the Bagger

9. Can/Should Everyone Be a Leader? Can we lead others before we are leaders in our own lives?

10. I am who taught me • Someone influenced, mentored, taught & showed us the way. • How do we influence, mentor & teach others to find their paths? • How do we remain the mentor, the teacher in times of cardiac arrest?

11. Caring • Conscious Choice: To care or not to care? • Is the old cliché is true? "People don't care how much you know until they know how much you _____."

12. Caring Unconditional love, support and acceptance: Accepting children Accepting adults

13. Spirit: A Vital Ingredient

14. IQ v EQ v SQ Intellectual Mind Emotional Mind Spirited/Inspired Mind Using Spirit to Lead Successfully Dr. Sandy Gluckman

15. Rules for Being Human • We will learn lessons. There are no mistakes, only lessons. • A lesson is repeated until learned. • Learning lessons does not end. • There is no better place than here. • What we make of our life is up to us. • Our answers lie inside of us. • Above all, respect birds for flying and fish for swimming.

16. Relationships What Job descriptions, Contracts How Relationships, Head, Heart & Hands

17. Leading with Heart Discovering our leadership voice to inspire and commit people to action Leadership is not a role we play – It is who we are. Relationships determine ability to connect to the people that we motivate

18. Think with Your Heart Put yourself in __shoes. Do you know what makes them feel good? • after hours fitness class • flexible schedule-within reason • in-house shoulder or foot massages • someone who listens without judgment Employees may work for the compensation, but they stay because of the supervisor and environment.

19. Head, Heart and Hands Head+Heart = ? Heart+Hands = ? Hands+Head = ? Head + Heart + Hands = Sustained Success

20. Aim for the Heart: by Tom Mathews “You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.”

21. Increasing the Leadership Quotient of Your Teams When team members collide Development trumps discipline Problem-solving scenarios Multiple perspectives What’s working for you

22. Team Relationship Scenario:When team members collide • 2 Administrators • Compromised effectiveness • Affecting students and staff • Must work together What can you do? What should you do?

23. Problem Solving Scenarios An activity for teams: Create scenarios and identify: • the players • the conflict • alternative solutions from multiple perspectives

24. Problem Solving Scenarios • Teachers • Paraprofessionals • Administrators Key to an effective learning experience: -solutions from multiple perspectives

25. Recipes for Heart Healthy Teams Doing things right versus doing the right things. How do we use our team meetings? nuts and bolts? development? ? Do we model, enable, inspire, challenge, and encourage the heart?

26. Investing in Development Doing things right versus doing the right things. How do we use team meetings? Do we model, enable, inspire, challenge, and encourage?

27. New Team Leaders Beware: • Gain trust and respect first • Walk the talk • And they will come………

28. Build Trust Have the courage to acknowledge your own humanness

29. Spirit-A Core Leadership Competence Go to basics-teach your team how to put spirit in the driver’s seat & ego in the passenger’s seat. Whether spirit or ego is in the driver’s seat can depend upon how safe we feel.

30. What Hurts Motivation? • A flame goes out when: • We rely on the power of past performance • We stay within the comfort zone • We will not embrace the present moment • Burn-out :when passion for a subject and compassion for a person is out of balance

31. The Heart of the Matter Confront or Condone If someone isn’t playing by the rules and we don’t confront it, we condone it. If something isn’t going well, address it. Our actions affect climate and credibility, health and stress. It’s all in the HOW.

32. “By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.”Winston Churchill

33. (Re)defining Leadership: Think, Pair, Share, Follow Up Do you have the same definition? Has anything resonated with you? Any new ideas? “The manager may get things done right. The leader with heart does the right thing for the right reasons.” Chambers, 2008 Beyond the Box, LLC

34. Leading with Head, Heart and Hands: Tools and Resources • Bibliography: recommended reading • Leadership Practices Inventory • Websites • Christy’s Kitchen • Leading with Heart Workbook

35. Investing in Development Doing things right versus doing the right things. How do we use team meetings? Do we model, enable, inspire, challenge, and encourage?

36. Being the best we can be!

37. Contact info: Christy Chambers, Ed.D. Beyond the Box, LLC Beyondthebox.christy@gmail.com 815-363-9329 (O) 815-425-2758 (F) www.leaderswithheart.com