The Building a Stronger Team workshop provides skill development for identifying priorities, strengths, motivations, needs and contributions each character brings to a team. Participants will identify preferred working styles and understand the relationship of these work styles to their personality. The goal is ensuring positive team member performance resulting in positive outcomes and productivity.

Leading school change and improvement is one of the most complex tasks of school leadership. As Fullan (1993), Sparks (1993), and others point out, school leaders need to understand the change process in order to lead and manage change and improvement efforts effectively. They must learn to overcome barriers and cope with the chaos that naturally exists during the complex process of change (Fullan & Miles, 1992).

By the end of the Seminar Administrators will be able to:

• Describe the process of change
• Explain the six critical components of leading successful change and improvements in their schools
• Identify strategies to overcome resistance to change
• Describe the importance of working in teams

All of us need to experience success in our work and in our personal relationships with family, friends, and work colleagues. This highly interactive Workshop will translate complicated personality and learning theory into practical information that will help us improve our understanding of our own behaviors and personality. Only when we understand, can we change.

The power of this presentation is the “Ah-ha’s” that provide us with clarity and understanding. Opening the mind to new possibilities allows participants to undertake workable new actions. This informative workshop provides invaluable tools for understanding ourselves and others better.

Today’s leadership challenge is to build our schools on a foundation of core leadership principles where everyhahone feels valued, capable, understood and important in the school community. Personality Dimensions knowledge provides the foundation to meet this challenge. When leadership focuses on understanding the core wants and needs of the individual, it creates an environment where motivation and success can occur.

By the end of this Workshop participants will:

• Review the abilities and behaviors of the four Personality Styles at work
• Identify their Personality Style at work or as a Leader
• Identify ways in which they can use Personality Styles to motivate their team members to work more effectively

Teachers who work together have seen significant improvements in student achievement, behavior, and attitudes. In schools where collaboration is the norm, students can sense program coherence and consistency of expectations, and their improved behavior and achievement may well be a response to a better learning environment.

During this interactive Workshop, participants will:

• Identify the Collaborative Structures/Models being used by other schools
• Create a Collaborative Structure to support their Teachers
• Understand the Importance of Collaboration in their School
• Identify the issues and needs that could arise as a result of the new methodologies and/or integration of technology in their schools

During this Workshop, Primary, Preparatory and Secondary School Supervisors will discuss a variety of methods and procedures for assessing effective teaching methods in the classroom. We will work in small groups, with the Trainers working in a mentorship role, to: develop a rubric for assessing effective teaching methods in the classroom, develop a form for recording the assessment, and develop a form for Teachers to assess their own performance.

Mentorship Programs are a critical component in sustaining and raising the levels of the implementation of new methodologies, strategies and concepts.

This Workshop provides participants with an overview of effective Mentorship Programs, the information, resources and tools to develop and implement an effective Mentorship Program in their schools.

Change is, for many of us, a catalyst for growth; it energizes us, and we get ready to accomplish new things and move forward into uncharted territory. For others, change creates tremendous anxiety, hindering growth and exploration. But even for those who get the biggest charge out of change in their lives, there is also accompanying anxiety about the status quo being disrupted, the comfort level being threatened. In this interactive Workshop, participants will:

• Identify the challenges and barriers to change for each of the four personality styles.
• Identify the motivators and rewards that affect the performance of each of the personality styles