My Philosophy
This is my philosophy explaining my mission and vision of how I plan on being a leader.
My Leadership Philosophy My leadership philosophy is based on my moral and ethical beliefs. They are my motive and inspirational fundamentals of why I want to be a principal. My mission and vision are to enhance students’ perspectives and become aware of their communities’ values, while enhancing their own moral and ethical principles that foster diversity. With community engagement I hopes students will gain opportunities to nurture their passion and become entrepreneur that will invest back into the community. I want to enhance students perspectives of their communities, cities and the world.
Personal Values and Beliefs My personal values and beliefs are of many people who believe in the Creator of the Heavens and Earth and the Holy books. This is my guide, my convictions and reality. I try to do everything base on the Qur’an and the examples of the Prophets. So with this I look at our future generation. I see them as a group of people who are very talented and innovative. I believe they are able to build the communities and structure it to support the people there. By doing this they can influencing positive mindset growth and cultivating a safe and healthier environment.
Leadership Style My leadership style is a combination of servant, transformational, transactional. A servant leadership style fits my approach to many positions I take. I am not a person who wants control but will help those who are in a leadership role. So, under my leadership my aim is not to be an authoritarian and manager but will do so if the path in which my staff has taken is not ready to share my visions and mission. As a leader I plan on listen, ask for help and collaborate with my staff. I believe that more minds that focus on a task, the better the outcome will be because collaboration opens the door for more input and not limiting to a few. I believe that including the staff and listening to their ideas make them feel included to the team, which is what I want. A team who shares my values, goals and perspectives of how I want to incorporate a culture that is based on a community of people collaborating and working toward uplifting society. The community I envision is a collective group of people helping to establish a common goal. This means having a diverse team. Because I believe in diversity it will be important to have a team who understands the different perspectives of group. These differences help expand our understanding of their life and values. With this I plan to have a staff who is willing to integrate these differences into our program. They will be willing to lead and share their expertise and learn about others. The other aspects of servant leadership that is important to me as a leader is trust. My staff needs to trust me in order to stay focused on the goal. I strongly believe that trust is a key factor in working on my team because it is the foundations to integrity, personal and professions relationships. If I cannot trust a person, or they cannot trust me than it is hard to establish a working environment because I do not know what their motives or thought would be regarding confidentiality of students and staff. I share personal experiences and thoughts with peers, thus working with people I must trust that what we discuss will be in confidence. Therefore, it will be an agreement among staff that the confidentiality is highly regarded and hold value to my organizations. Therefore, if broken, then the trust is broken, and relationships of any kind has no value. My philosophy is that if I cannot trust you than I cannot work with you. Servant leadership has many aspects that I value. Thus, as a leader I would inspire, encourage and help others grow and come into focus of their truth, personal and professional aspirations. I belief that everyone should have the opportunity to go above and beyond their life goals. I would feel honored and privileged to help people meet these desires. As a team, we work together for the good of everyone, thus, helping people in anyway that is plausible would be included in our mission and vision because helping one who has a different vision and mission than I have is a positive because there are many other concepts that need attention. Thus, fostering others conceptual ideas and foresight is what I want to accomplish as a servant leader.
Integrity and Fairness The way I will establish integrity and fairness will be based on my religious faith. I will practice it and stay mindful that everything I do will be recorded. This inspires me to be always on my best. Next, I believe in leading by example. I will be honesty, respectful and insist on respect from others in my school. Showing and receiving respect, being understandable, showing compassion and aware of other’s feelings will allow my staff to see me as a person who is compassionate, and want to instill these traits within themselves. This shows that I am caring, and others can rely on me for support. With establishing myself as a honorable person, my staff will be able to see me as a fair and just decisions maker because I will listening to both sides of a situations and not be judgmental, but judge fairly. I will encourage others to listen to the situations and encourage the parties to resolve their differences by seeing the others point of view.
Model of Effective and Inspirational Leadership My model of effective and inspirational leadership will be clearly explaining my missions and vision to staff. My strategy would be to show my plan, evidence to support the ideas and reasonings why my mission and vision is needed in our schools and the benefits of these ides. I would then collaborate and convince others that their ideas to improve my plan is worth them joining the team to make the visions and mission a reality. At this point, I would insure we get the proper professional development training to continue the growth and mindset of the staff that flourishes the mission. I would use the expertise of the staff to lead and execute their ideas to further develop the plan. Once the staff is on board with the plan, I would collaborate with the student and use their ideas to better the mission and vision. By me modeling how collectively working together, allowing collaborations of all stakeholders, promotes a positive cohesive plan that everyone can invest in, shows that I would be a great servant leader whose goals are for the betterment of the students and staff.
Conclusion In conclusion, my leadership philosophy is based on the my religious beliefs to inspire others to embrace a servant style team that fosters others to collaborate and facilitate a shared mission and vision.
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