Leading Effective Teams

Leading Effective Teams
Pre-conference Workshop

Teacher leaders, when empowered, will be the most effective tool to motivate teaching staff and keep them focused on teaching and learning goals. This 1-day workshop will instruct participants how to foster greater interdependency among team members by helping them understand how to manage the different beliefs, behaviours and priorities that exist in their team. Teacher lead teams that communicate effectively and work interdependently improve student learning!

By the end of the workshop, participants will understand and have confidence to facilitate team meetings, develop effective forms of professional inquiry to promote greater interdependency, as well as to develop and foster strong relationships with and amongst team members.

Essential Question – What do I need to know and be able to do to build an effective team that positively impacts teaching and learning?

Workshop Topics Include:

Team Formation

In this module you will learn the various stages that teams go through when they are working interdependently to achieve a shared goal. You learn how to assess your team’s stage of development and what you need to do to help your team move to the next stage of development.

Essential Question: What do I need to know and do to lead a collaborative team?

Learning Objectives:

Participants will define their role and learn how to set expectations with different stakeholders
Participants will learn how teams develop in stages and activities appropriate for each stage
Participants will assess their team’s stage of development and identify what they need to do to promote greater collaboration

Professional Inquiry (Goal Setting)

By November teacher leaders should have a good understanding of the capacity their team has to engage in transformative interdependent work. Capacity will be determined by their understanding of the needs of their students and capability to attend to the transactional responsibilities of their roles, such as lesson planning and assessment. The capacity of a team to work interdependently towards achieving a shared goal will largely be contingent on their capability of attending to the transactional aspects of their work.

Participants will learn how to establish an effective leadership goal, in the form of an inquiry, that addresses the needs of their team and how to build it’s capacity to collaborate.

Essential Question: How do I develop my team’s capacity and capability to achieve a transformative team goal?

Learning Objectives:

Participants will assess their team capacity to work interdependently to achieve a transformative goal.
Participants will learn to facilitate effective goal setting processes that are inquiry based.
Participants will understand that pursuing goals is an iterative process that requires periodic tuning.

Meeting Management

To be influential and capable of motivating disparate team members, team leaders must employ effective facilitation tools and understand how to mitigate the disparate beliefs and behavioral priorities of team members.

2-3 months into the school year group norms begin to get tested and members will begin to question their role on the team. The team leader’s role at this stage should be more focused on reinforcing the purpose of the team, the role that each member plays and how to foster greater interdependency between each team member. Effective meeting management at this stage of the team’s development is crucial.

Essential Questions: How can I mitigate conflict in meetings to ensure we are focused on our shared team goal?

Learning Objectives:

Participants will explore and understand how to accommodate different beliefs about leadership.
Participants will gain an understanding and appreciation of different work styles.
Participants will learn how to manage 5 difficult team member behaviors.

Date and Time
10 November 2023
8:00 – 15:00

Location
Hong Kong International School

Price
$250USD

Note: You do not need to register for the main PHASE Conference to attend this one day workshop.

Presenters

Michael Iannini

Leadership Facilitator, Author and PD Consultant

Michael Iannini is ACAMIS’s Leadership Development Facilitator, Search Associates Contracted HR PD Coordinator for China, and an affiliated Council of International School’s (CIS) consultant with the following areas of expertise:

Appraisal and professional development
Leadership training
School governance
Strategic planning

His journey in education began 20 years ago as a research assistant at Arizona State University’s Child Development Laboratory, where he was an early years educator and researcher. Since moving to China in 1999, originally as an Early Years Teacher, Michael has advised and trained the Boards and Leadership of hundreds of International Schools across Asia. His work has helped small and large schools facilitate real strategic planning, develop leadership across the school, implement best practices for human resource management, and design staff capacity-building programs for both academic and non-academic staff.

Michael’s first book, Hidden in Plain Site: Realizing the Full Potential of Middle Leaders, is the foundation for all his leadership development work. Since writing this book he launched www.middleleader.com where he is regularly posting articles on school leadership and interviews with school leadership influencers.

Michael’s exhaustive efforts to understand the needs and context that schools operate in have helped nurture a long and mutually beneficial relationship with ACAMIS’s network of schools. His work in China is also why Search Associates recently contracted Michael to develop and coordinate professional development activities for it’s member schools, focused on the Retention, Recruitment, and Induction of Foreign Teachers.

Michael lives in Hong Kong with his wife and their two children.