Future Focused Leadership

The latest from Bill Ziegler and David Ramage, Future Focused Leaders, provides school leaders with practical, relevant, and useable strategies for immediate application that promote sustainable innovation in leadership. Organized by three main overviews—Relate, Innovate, and Invigorate—each chapter ends with action steps for school leaders to take in order to strengthen their overall leadership abilities. · Relate: focuses on the effect relationships have on teacher and student success across an entire building; readers will learn strategies for conversational leadership, communication methods, and relationship building to create a culture of sharing and collaboration · Innovate: highlights tools and skills to change leaders’ approach to everyday school processes, incorporate technology, and inspire creativity in both staff and students · Invigorate: addresses the need for educators to return to their roots about why they went into education—to make a difference This book is for any school leader who is committed to building learning relationships, innovating for student success, and invigorating educators to make a difference in the life of every child.

A forward-looking guide to helping leaders in education and other fields better prepare students for such challenges as globalization, demographic shifts, and advances in technology.

Seize the Future: A leader's guide to mastering the art of being future-fit and leading with relevance. In an era of constant flux, Relevant emerges as an indispensable roadmap for today's leaders. It's a clarion call to executives, entrepreneurs and C-suite teams who aspire to master the art of thriving in an unpredictable, AI-infused world. This transformative book equips you with future-focused 'lenses' to make sense of and navigate our world of work with clarity and agility. It addresses the pressing issues of our times - complexity, uncertainty, technological advancements, and social dynamics - while providing you with actionable strategies for leading with foresight and adaptability. Drawing from extensive experience and profound insights, Louise Mowbray offers you a compelling journey through the realms of conscious leadership, systems thinking and innovative behaviours, vital for leading with relevance in the unfolding future. Relevant is a must-read that will change how you understand yourself, others, the future and our extraordinary world.

Total Leaders puts the minds of the most respected futurist, leadership, and change authorities to work for you in one simple yet dynamic leadership model that will help you strengthen your insights, performance, and effectiveness. The authors, a former superintendent and a national reform leader, spent the past 15 years individually reading and collectively synthesizing more than 100 of the leading futurist and leadership theory books, and relating their findings to the realities of educational leadership today. This book is for you if you: are familiar with all the current leadership theory and would like to have it all put together in one practical model; haven't read much leadership research for some time and would like to catch up on it in an effective and efficient way; want proven strategies for dealing with a challenge to change your organization; are responsible for recruiting and evaluating educational leaders; or want to analyze your leadership performance and plan for future professional growth based upon what works.

This volume explores various approaches to leadership from both the past and the present, critically analysing these in the light of possible future challenges and scenarios. In addition, by drawing from the field of future studies, it introduces the reader to concepts of leadership that are ‘future-ready’.

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.