Just what kind of a leader are you? (Expectations & knowledge skills)

I have developed a healthy addiction to MOOC’s they have a great impact on my understanding of marketing, markets , Human thought and Leadership.

In a MOOC offered by edx.org Titled “Leaders of learning” they introduced an interesting four models of leadership that I am about to share with you.

Hierarchical Individual Expectation:

Being a successful leader in a Hierarchical Individual learning environment means bringing the external requirements of a governing institution (Frequently state or federal government) into the work and practices of the organization.           

Knowledge & Skills:

•Manages successful superior subordinate relationships.

•Focuses the organization and its learners on clear performance targets

•Marshals the human and material resources of the organization in the service of those performance targets.

•Builds and sustains stable relationships with learners and their families based on high expectations.

Hierarchical Collective Expectations:

Being a successful leader in a Hierarchical Collective learning environment means leading according to the requirements of an external authorizing environment, while also encouraging and enforcing the norms, values, principles, and practices specific to the learning community.         

 

Knowledge & Skill Requirements:

A Hierarchical Collective learning environment typically values a leader who:

•Articulates and models the key values of the organization.

•Incorporates external requirements into the specific values and practices of the community.

•Builds and sustains stable relationships with learners and their families based on norms specific to this learning community.

Distributed  Individual Expectations:

Being a  successful  leader  in  a  Distributed  Individual  learning  environment  means  articulating  an  appealing  vision of  learning That  is  shaped  by  the  needs,  preferences,  and dispositions  of individual learners.

Knowledge & Skill Requirements:

A  Distributed Individual learning environment typically values a leader who:

•Responds to learner  needs  and  interests,  and  consider  how  they  will  change  over  time.

•Is unafraid to embark on new, entrepreneurial ventures.

•Builds and inspires a team of collaborators with diverse knowledge & skillsets.

•Mobilizes  human  and  material  resources  to  respond  to  learner  needs.

•Closely  monitors  learners’  engagement,  interest,  and  connections  to  the  learning  environment.

Distributed Collective Expectations:

Being a successful leader in a Distributed Collective learning environment means identifying and supporting the common values, beliefs, and goals that bind the learning community together. Often it means openness to sharing ownership of an educational vision with the community.    

Leadership Knowledge & Skills:

A Distributed Collective learning environment typical values a leader who:

•Inspires individuals and organizations with common interests to operate in networked relationships

•Recognizes shared community values and articulates them within the community and the larger world

•Identifies community members ‘resources, and motivates members to share them

•Brings resources from the external world into the community while maintaining community norms and standard.

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