Relational Leadership The Foundation for a High Performing

Relational Leadership: The Foundation for a High Performing Culture Vern Hazard Joe Pellerito. A systems Senior Leadership Solutions Executive Leadership Development Strategist vern. hazard@Flippengroup. com joe. pellerito@Flippengroup. com

WHAT’S THE FLIPPEN STORY?

What Flip Learned! “If you have a child’s heart, ” you have a child’s mind. Flippen

How would you describe your district’s culture?

Culture Defined the collective behaviors of the individuals within an organization; what we do; how we do things. Climate Defined the effects of what we do within the organization; our perceived experience; how we feel.

Cultural Insights • Cultures are either random or intentional! • Ignored behavior becomes accepted behavior. • It has either been taught or it has been tolerated. • Who defines your culture? • Why do people quit?

Leadership Drives School Culture Intentional – Nothing left to chance Relational – Open, transparent, genuine Transformational – Inspiring, visionary, accountable It takes tools and heart -- They need to SEE both!

Culture and Climate Research The evidence is overwhelming. Improving children's socialemotional skills and school culture and climate has been found to lead to an • average gain of 11 percentile points on standardized academic achievement test scores as well as • significant declines in conduct problems and disciplinary issues and • increases in measures of emotional and social well-being. (Berkowitz & Bier, 2006; Durlak, Weissberg, Dymnicki, Taylor, & Schellinger, 2011)

Relational Leadership “ A leader is someone who sets aside a personal agenda and embraces a greater agenda of serving others. ” Flippen

“No organization rises above the constraints of it’s leadership. ” Flippen © The Flippen Group, 800. 316. 4311, www. flippengroup. com

? s ht g u o An h t y • Self Awareness • What’s in your mirror? • Feedback • Relational Capacity • Model the Process • Model Greatness

How Do Leaders Intentionally Create a High -Performing Culture? 1 st Create safety. • Socially • Psychologically • Academically 2 nd 3 rd Align individual behaviors to outcomes. Create connectedness. © The Flippen Group, 800. 316. 4311, www. flippengroup. com

“School connectedness was found to be the strongest protective factor for both boys and girls to decrease substance use, school absenteeism, early sexual initiation, violence, and risk of unintentional injury (e. g. , drinking and driving, not wearing seat belts). ” Center for Disease Control and Prevention. School Connectedness: Strategies for Increasing Protective Factors Among Youth. Atlanta, GA: U. S. Department of Health and Human Services; 2009. © The Flippen Group, 800. 316. 4311, www. flippengroup. com

What Motivates Kids to Learn? Appropriate healthy relationships with mature, competent, and relevant adults.

THE EXCEL MODEL TM Capturing Kids’ Hearts Copyright © 2014 Flippen Group. All rights reserved.

When ANXIETY is up Performance is DOWN

What Can Emotions Do to You? • Anxiety floods your body with adrenaline (“fight, flight or freeze”). • Adrenaline makes it hard for the neuro-transmitters to carry messages across the synapses in your brain. • This causes “blanking out” on a test, which is known as test anxiety!

Safety lowers anxiety Safety is the #1 job of leaders

Social Contract/Behave in-Behave out © The Flippen Group, 800. 316. 4311, www. flippengroup. com

Vern Hazard II Senior Leadership Solutions Executive vern. hazard@flippengroup. com Joe Pellerito Leadership Development Strategist joe. pellerito@flippengroup. com Download the research at www. flippengroup. com/information