January 2013
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January 2013
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301 Reads
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January 2013
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June 2010
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19,306 Reads
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10 Citations
Moving from operational leadership to strategic leadership is the key development task of those wishing to take up senior leadership roles in schools. In this chapter we outline the nature and dimensions first of strategy and then of strategic leadership. We put forward the view that strategic leaders need to enhance or develop their leadership abilities in eight areas. We see the roles that strategic leaders should demonstrate as being strategic thinkers, being strategic learners, exerting strategic influence, being strategic talent developers, balancing the strategic and operational, deploying strategic planning and strategic intent, delivering strategic action, and being able to define strategic measures of success. The chapter puts forward the view that by examining these eight factors the reader can assess their own development needs in terms of strategic ability and use the framework for reflection and action.
June 2010
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4,969 Reads
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187 Citations
International Journal of Educational Management
Purpose Academies are semi‐autonomous schools set up outside the normal local government structures with sponsors from business and charity groups to create new and innovative ways of creating and sustaining school transformation. The aim of this paper is to assist in a strategic conversation within the academy movement on talent development. Design/methodology/approach The paper looks at talent identification, talent development and establishing a talent culture. It provides points in the text for readers to reflect on their own talent practice and provides case examples from current academies. Findings The paper shows that the longer‐term sustainability of the academy movement needs to address the key issue of developing leadership talent. Originality/value The paper provides an original and useful framework for developing talent management in academies.
January 2006
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8,536 Reads
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88 Citations
Educational Management Administration & Leadership
Strategic leadership is a critical component in the effective development of schools. Currently the educational debate is shifting to focus on how short-term improvements can become strategically sustainable. This article will put forward the view that renewed attention needs to be paid to the strategic dimension of leadership to ensure this sustainability. Much of the orthodox perspective of leadership development suggests that new leaders tend to .rst address current administrative and managerial issues to build con.dence and organizational ability before moving to a strategic and futures activities. The article argues that schools need a concurrent or parallel view of leadership development in which leaders focus not only on the ‘now’ of school improvement but concurrently build strategic capability within the school.
September 2005
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Leadership and Policy in Schools
This paper will address the challenge of how strategic leadership can be defined and articulated to provide a framework for developing a strategically focused school drawing on a NCSL research project. The paper is structured into three main parts. Part one outlines the elements that comprise a strategically focused school, develops an understanding of strategy, and the concepts associated with strategic leadership. Part two explains the qualitative research methodology used and reports the main findings from the research in terms of (i) what strategic leaders do, and (ii) what characteristics strategic leaders possess. Finally, the paper proposes a new model of strategic leadership to analyze practice and to assist in leadership development.This paper was developed as a result of the National College for School Leadership (England) funded research project (Davies, Davies, & Ellison, 2005) on developing strategy and strategic leadership in schools. This project aims at exploring in primary (elementary) and secondary (high) schools and special schools the strategic sustainability and leadership aspects of educational organisations.
February 2004
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109,330 Reads
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180 Citations
School Leadership and Management
This article looks at the nature and dimensions of strategic leadership. In particular, it looks at the role of strategic leaders in five main areas: (1) developing strategic and organizational processes; (2) leading and developing people; (3) developing culture and value systems; (4) developing distinct organizational competencies; and (5) developing effective networking. It concludes with a report of a major research project conducted by Davies. et al. (2005) which highlights what strategic leaders do and the characteristics that strategic leaders possess. Finally, the article highlights the importance of not regarding strategic and operational leadership as separate processes but of using a strategic perspective as a template for operational decisions.
... and long term perspective of money that figures prominently [26], [27]. Consequently, strategic leadership displays a sense of power and confidence and make bold, unconventional, and counter normative decisions [28]- [30]. ...
January 2013
... Leadership is a pillar of success in an educational institution. Western scholars associate leadership with organizational changes (Fullan, 2005;Davies 2005). In fact, some argue that leadership is the process of influencing others to achieve goals (Northouse, 2016;Stogdill, 1974;Yukl, 2002Yukl, , 2008. ...
September 2005
Leadership and Policy in Schools
... El liderazgo educativo y la adopción tecnológica son temas de gran interés en la última década, lo que se ha visto reflejado en una tendencia hacia la integración de tecnologías avanzadas en el ámbito educativo (UNESCO, 2021). Las instituciones educativas son un espacio clave para la implementación exitosa de tecnologías en el aula (Davies y Davies, 2006). Según un informe de la UNESCO de 2021, el 70% de los directores de escuelas en países desarrollados consideran que la capacitación en liderazgo tecnológico es esencial para mejorar la calidad educativa (UNESCO, 2021). ...
January 2006
Educational Management Administration & Leadership
... Third, how it is important that the task that talent engaged on the level of organisation and how this task has an impact on the level of intrinsic. The feeling of importance come from their contribution to achieving the organization goal and objectives, which will reinforce the feeling of recognition, appreciation, valuable and important to their organisation (Davies& Davies, 2010). ...
June 2010
International Journal of Educational Management
... The conceptual framework of the study originated from B. J. Davies and B. Davies (2004) nine-point model (as illustrated in Figure 1) of strategic leadership. It is a combination of five organizational capabilities (ORGACAPAB) and four individual characteristics (INDVCHAR) of strategic leadership characteristics. ...
February 2004
School Leadership and Management
... Samimi et al. (2022) clinched that different scholars identified strategic leadership functions in different aspects. For example, the prominent strategic leadership scholars Davies (2003) and Davies and Davies (2010) related strategic leadership function to what strategic leaders do (organizational abilities) and what characteristics strategic leaders display (personal characteristics). The other is Ireland and Hitt (2005) which discuss the twenty-first century nature of the organization in which effective strategic leadership practices occur and the need for the top management team to discharge their strategic leadership responsibilities. ...
June 2010