Call for Leadership: Effective Practices of Leaders in the Search for New Wisdom

by Marty Zimmerman, Brad Johnson

Overview

This book describes leadership best practice and thinking through patterns of feedback offered to leaders by their employees and peers, and through conversations and stories of people keenly aware of the distinctions that more often spell out authentic leadership practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781475841046
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/12/2018
Pages:	92
Product dimensions:	5.86(w) x 9.19(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Marty Zimmerman, MEd, is a Naval Academy alum and Marine Corps veteran, he also served as a leadership/executive development coach in a Fortune 100 company and later operated his own business. He has enjoyed coaching leaders through the years in their 360 leadership performance feedback. Marty additionally served as a secondary schools literacy consultant, coaching teachers and modeling literacy strategies for students at various schools. Earning two Masters degrees in Education (Curriculum & Instruction with a minor in Reading, and in Educational Leadership), he currently enjoys teaching online and collaborating with faculty at Concordia University, Portland and elsewhere.
Dr. Brad Johnson is one of the most dynamic and engaging speakers in the fields of education and leadership. He is an established author with Routledge publishing, with books including Learning on Your Feet: Incorporating Physical Activity into the K-8 Classroom, The Edutainer: Connecting the Art & Science of Teaching, and From School Administrator to School Leader: 15 Keys to Maximizing Your Leadership Potential. Besides his experiences in "The Trenches" as a teacher, curriculum director, and administrator, Dr. Johnson has served as an accreditation committee chair. He developed and supervised a formal mentoring program. He has also served on board-level educational committees. He recently spent several weeks in Malaysia training teachers for their Ministry of Education. Dr. Johnson currently serves on the national faculty of Concordia University’s School of Graduate Studies where he teaches courses in leadership

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Role Model Leadership evidence – what works for you?
What if this doesn’t work?
Leadership practices which have worked – can they work for you?
An author’s perspective on leadership and the leader within us
What did I hear at the top of the stairs
Chapter 2: Reflections of Mike Singletary on Leadership Experience
Chapter 3: Expanding the Leader’s Perspective
Perspective 1: What is your recorder playing?
Perspective 2: Encourage effort but reward results
Perspective 3: Leaders make Mistakes
Perspective 4: If you have never failed,
Perspective 5: We hire for strengths but manage for weaknesses
Perspective 6: Knowledge is no longer power
Perspective 7: Planning ahead…in reverse
Chapter 4: Questions to invite expanding one’s leader waistline
Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

This is a book that can really help those who are called to lead to grow into that leadership—As I had to do myself in developing my own leadership practice. It is also a book that helps us to realize that we will never really quite get all the way there—and that is fine. The pursuit of the goals of leadership is often more revealing (and growth producing) than the attainment of those goals. And that is a incentive for each of us to keep learning and growing. This book provides real insight into that process.

Tony Valley

Call for Leadership: Effective Practices of Leaders in the Search for New Wisdom
addresses the meaning of truly and effectivelyleading. In addition, this book provides a clear understanding of the importance of getting in touch with one’s own world (i.e. experiences, personal beliefs, actions) as it applies to effectivelyconnecting with those being lead. Further, this book helps the reader examine why and how they have become the leader they are today.

Angela D. Coleman

This is a great book for current or aspiring educational leaders that mentor and work with young people. The interviews, stories, concepts, and strategies in this book are motivating, practical, and applicable to educational leaders from a variety of diverse backgrounds. I wholeheartedly endorse this book as an excellent guide to improve and strengthen any leader’s moral and foundational leadership skills.

Brenda Cherokee Taylor