The Empowered Manager
“Make sure your students follow your instructions.” That sounds like a straightforward instruction, but in fact, it’s fairly abstract. What does a teacher actually have to do to make sure students are following? Even the leader delivering this direction may not know, and the first-year teacher almost certainly doesn’t. The vast majority of teachers are only observed one or two times per year on average—and even among those who are observed, scarcely any are given feedback as to how they could improve. The bottom line is clear: teachers do not need to be evaluated so much as they need to be developed and coached. In Get Better Faster: A 90-Day Plan for Coaching New Teachers, Paul Bambrick-Santoyo shares instructive tools of how school leaders can effectively guide new teachers to success. Over the course of the book, we break down the most critical actions leaders and teachers must enact to achieve exemplary results. Designed for coaches as well as beginning teachers, Get Better Faster is an integral coaching tool for any school leader eager to help their teachers succeed. It’s the book’s focus on the actionable—the practice-able—that drives effective coaching. By practicing the concrete actions and micro-skills listed here, teachers will markedly improve their ability to lead a class, producing a steady chain reaction of future teaching success. Though focused heavily on the first 90 days of teacher development, it’s possible to implement this work at any time. New and old teachers alike can benefit from the guidance of Get Better Faster and close their existing instructional gaps. Packed with practical training tools, including agendas, presentation slides, a coach’s guide, handouts, planning templates, and 35 video clips of real teachers at work, Get Better Faster will teach you: The core principles of coaching: Go Granular, Make Feedback More Frequent, Top action steps to launch a teacher’s development in an easy-to-read scope and sequence guide The four phases of skill building: Phase 1 (Pre-Teaching): Dress Rehearsal Phase 2: Instant Immersion Phase 3: Getting into Gear Phase 4: The Power of Discourse
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
Names: Block, Peter, author.
Title: The empowered manager: positive political skills at work / Peter Block.
Description: Second Edition. | Hoboken: Wiley, 2016. | Revised edition of the author's The empowered manager, 1987. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016033002 (print) | LCCN 2016036814 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119282402 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119282426 (epdf) | ISBN 9781119282419 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Organizational behavior. | Organizational effectiveness. | Office politics. | Executive ability. | BISAC: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior.
Classification: LCC HD58.7 .B58 2016 (print) | LCC HD58.7 (ebook) | DDC 658.4/095–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016033002
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An Other Kingdom: Departing the Consumer Culture, coauthored with Walter Brueggemann and John McKnight
The Answer to How Is Yes: Acting on What Matters
Community: The Structure of Belonging
Flawless Consulting: A Guide to Getting Your Expertise Used
The Flawless Consulting Fieldbook and Companion: A Guide to Understanding Your Expertise
Freedom and Accountability at Work: Applying Philosophic Principles to the Real World, coauthored with Peter Koestenbaum
Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest
PROLOGUE
TO READ OR NOT TO READ
This opening is designed to help you make a good decision about whether to read this book. Writing a book about organizations is not like writing an international spy thriller. In a spy thriller, you can begin by describing the fog slowly rising off the river separating two Eastern European countries. You can have a train hurtling through the night. In the corner of one compartment are two men, unconscious, one of them clutching a business card with a seven-legged toad embossed in green ink. A woman arrives on the scene, reaches calmly into her purse, and on it goes. In the spy thriller, all of this happens in the first paragraph. You are hooked and off you go, knowing that you have found just the book you were looking for.
Finding a book about organizational life that has meaning for you is not so easy. You shouldn't have to read a hundred pages to decide whether you want to finish such a book. I want to tell you who this book is for, who should not read it, and what to expect in the pages to come.
The View from the Bridge
The Empowered Manager is written for two kinds of people: (1) managers involved in running an organization and struggling every day with how to create and leave behind an organization they personally believe in, one that expresses their deepest values about work, achievement, contribution, and the spiritual dimensions of life; and (2) those working somewhere in the middle of an organization and feeling powerless to make the changes they want and believing that some of their bosses are problems to be solved.
