Leadership Checklist

Management consultant Bruce Avovio, writing in Work & Family Life ([email protected]), summarizes the following key steps to successful leadership:

• Visualize obstacles that you may face.
• Set goals for which you and others in your group will be held accountable.
• Seek and incorporate feedback from your colleagues.
• Reflect on your best and worst moments.
• Incorporate training—leadership can be developed and mastered.
• Broaden your model of leadership to include a full range of styles.
• Maintain high ethical standards.

Exchange offers an extremely valuable resource for early childhood leaders, The Art of Leadership: Managing Early Childhood Organizations. This guidebook offers practical advice from experts such:

Margie Carter, Henry Morgan, Roger Neugebauer, Pauline Zeece, Bettye Caldwell, Edna Runnels Ranck, Chip Donohue, Abby J. Cohen, James Strickland, Cindy Ratekin, Gary Bess, Anne Mitchell, Annette Heng, Bruce Cunningham, Elizabeth Jones, Karen Stephens, Kay M. Albrecht, Marjorie Kostelnik, Lilian G. Katz, Pam Schiller, Susan S. Aronson, MD, Jim Greenman, and Janet Gonzalez-Mena.

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