The Transition Years:Positive Digital Footprints. William M.
Ferriter A few months back, a group of 7th graders who were studying digital footprints with the guidance of teacher George Mayo at Silver Spring International Middle School in Silver Spring, Maryland, interviewed me. "Do you think most kids know what their digital footprint is? " they asked. "You're the experts! " The students gave me a definition right out of my worst nightmare: Digital footprints are the trails people leave behind when they live online—and Internet predators use these trails to track down careless tweens and teens.
Sadly, their definition sounds familiar, doesn't it? Invulnerable but Invisible? One of my worst fears as [my children] grow older is that they won't be Googled well. … that when a certain someone (read: admissions officer, employer, potential mate) enters "Tess Richardson" into the search line of the browser, what comes up will be less than impressive.
That's an interesting dichotomy, isn't it? Take a tiered approach. References William M. Five Deadly Leadership Power Drains. For the past 20 years I have been studying power and influence among leaders globally.
What makes some more powerful than others? How do leaders derive their power? And how, on the other hand, do they diminish it? I discovered that leaders have 11 specific sources of power available to them, some stemming from their position in a company and others from personal attributes and capabilities. I also learned that every one of those power sources could also turn into a power drain. 1. Your knowledge power represents your talents, skills, and abilities as well as your wisdom and accomplishments. How knowledge power drains happen: You resist saying, "I don't know" (when you don't). 2. Your expressiveness power is, in essence, your eloquence—your ability to communicate powerfully and poetically in speaking and writing.
How expressiveness power drains happen: You talk too much (and listen too little). 3. How attraction power drains happen: You are aloof, arrogant, or self-absorbed. 4. 5. Patrick Lencioni: The Most Important Leadership Trait You Shun. Leadership Lessons: 5 Critical Requirements When Leading Change. Steve Woodruff and I couldn’t be happier to be welcoming our leadership colleague Mike Henry Sr. as this week’s Leadership Chat Guest Host.
Mike is the Founder and fearless leader of the Lead Change Group, of which I am a member. The group’s mission is to “Encourage, Energize and Equip one another to apply character-based leadership to Lead Change…” and its vision includes “instigating a leadership revolution.” Now, if you look up “revolution” in the dictionary you’ll find phrases like, “a sudden, complete or marked change.” This is not a tiny little process change Mike and our Lead Change Group are envisioning.
Rather, it’s a significant shift to character-based leadership and to leading from within ourselves, of which I am an ardent devotee. This leads us to the question we’ll be pondering, discussing and debating tomorrow night at Leadership Chat, “What does it take for a leader to effectively lead change?” 1. 2. This vision has to be clear, not muddled. 3. 4. 5. The Innovative Principal - I want to be a TRANSFORMATIONAL leader!
Leadership in Education: Michael Fullan Change. Leadership. Educational Technology.