Micro-political Leadership
Principals will build systems and relationships that utilize the staff ’s diversity, encourage constructive ideological conflict in order to leverage staff expertise, power and influence in order to realize the school’s vision for success. The principal will also creatively employ an awareness of staff ’s professional needs, issues, and interests to build cohesion and to facilitate distributed governance and shared decision making.
Element 7A: School Executive Micro-political Leadership: The principal develops systems and relationships to leverage staff expertise and influence in order to influence the school’s identity, culture and performance.