Leadership Characteristics that Facilitate Change

What types of leaders initiate and maintain successful school change? Do leaders of educational change share similar characteristics?

This guide explores the personal qualities that contribute to a person's leadership practices and examines how personal qualities influence educational leadership.

The main topics discussed are:

• Some key leadership concepts
• Characteristics found in effective educational leaders
• Implications of these characteristics when leaders implement or initiate school change

It is a companion to two other Leadership for School Change guides that focus on factors that influence school change and are intended to benefit students—especially those at risk.

• Facilitative Leadership: The Imperative for Change
• Leadership Characteristics that Facilitate Change
• School Context: Bridge or Barrier to Change?