Leadership in Education

  Plan-Do-Trust A collective ambition ensures that employees can experience passion in their work, it inspires and gives meaning and direction. If the collective ambition in an organization is leading for the majority of employees, then according to Weggeman the well-known 'Plan-Do-Check-Action thing' can be thrown out and replaced by Plan-Do-Trust (Weggeman, 2007). By this he means that in the presence of a collective ambition, instead of planning and control, it is possible to work more from a culture of cooperation and trust. With the underlying basis of trust in each other's involvement and professional expertise. Something that is also strongly advocated by authors such as Lieskamp and Vink (Lieskamp & Vink, 2015) and Biesta (Biesta, 2012). Focus on the solution or on the problem? Giving assignments. Swieringa and Jansen (2005) indicate that leaders often tend to focus on the solution (read 'their solution') of a problem or challenge, often unintentionally ...

  The School Leaders Register PO, the organization that represents the professional group 'school leaders in primary education' in the Netherlands, formulates the competence ' vision-oriented working' (one of the five established basic competences for school leaders) as follows: “The school leader leads the development and concretization of a joint vision on education and propagates this vision in order to optimize educational processes and learning results.”     Vision driven leadership: more than just creating support Vision driven leadership, however, is more than just creating support for a certain policy course. It is also an important tool for stimulating the intrinsic motivation of employees. And it is this intrinsic motivation that in turn plays an important role in the development of creativity, innovation and the willingness of employees to change and grow. All aspects that are of great importance for today's organizations to cope with an e...