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Find Your Strongest Life: What the Happiest and Most Successful Women Do Differently
by Marcus Buckingham

Today women are better educated, have better jobs, better pay, more choices about mates, careers ... just about everything. But that has not translated into women being happier. Actually with more choices the opposite is true. Womens overall happiness has been on a steady decline since 1972. This decline in happiness occurs across the board, regardless of whether women have children, how many they have, or how much they earn.

Marcus Buckingham is a well known researcher. He has written five previous books which centered around the concept that each person will be happiest when they are working from their greatest strength. Find Your Strongest Life got its start from a three hour workshop with Oprah. The workshop was conducted with 30 talented but unfulfilled women.

In his mission statement Marcus says, "My mission is to help each person identify her strengths, take them seriously and offer them to the world."

As you read the book you will discover facts, read some eye opening research, and see that many women are living a life based on myths more so than truth. Reading the stories of women seeking will help you to see that you are not alone on this journey.

Are you stuck in a job you hate? Feel like you just don't have enough to give to your professional life and your personal life? You're not alone. Career coach Marcus Buckingham met with a group of women just like you to help them figure out how to reignite the passion in their careers. Now it's your turn! Take Marcus's step-by-step workshop and use his lessons to change your life.

Workshop web location is at:

www.oprah.com/money/Marcus-Buckinghams-Career-Intervention

     

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School Leaders   
Mary Anne Winslow

According to According to Harris, the data collected suggests that head teachers take on leadership approaches that go with the particular stage of a school's development.

While the heads acknowledged that they had all adopted Vroom-Yetton's autocratic model in leadership approaches at critical times, they also agreed that this leadership approach was least likely to lead to sustained school improvement.

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The heads in the study had deliberately chosen a form of leadership to move the school forward, empowering others to lead and distributed leadership activity throughout the school. According to Leithwood this leadership covers similar traits of transformational leadership. James McGregor Burns's "transformational leader" is firmly identified with the transforming of organizations via the communication of clear vision to people who are empowered to deliver that vision. As Burns acknowledges, such leaders are rare but they do change organizations in major ways. The head teachers in the study had adopted Yukl's guidelines for becoming a transformational leader such as:


*Developing a sense of vision of what the organization could accomplish or become that is both clear and highly appealing to the followers. According to Harris the heads in the study communicated their personal vision and belief systems by direction, words and deeds, which helped them to communicate a sense of direction for the school.

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*Express confidence in followers' capacity to carry out the strategy for accomplishing the vision. The head teachers in the study communicated their vision through relationships with staff and students and they built those around core values.


However, it could be argued that head teachers' leadership style was more of a democratic than transformational nature. The findings from the research suggest that leadership of schools in difficulty is defined by individual values such as equity, empowerment and moral purpose. This reflects a form of leadership that is democratic and mainly concerned with giving others the responsibility to lead. According to Mullins research studies tend to indicate that democratic styles of leadership are more likely to produce effective group performance.


During the inspection phase, though, supportive leadership style was used in order to help staff through the process of change towards improvement. According to House that style of leadership involves a friendly and approachable manner and displaying concern for the needs and welfare of subordinates.


Through achievement - oriented leadership the head teachers in the study encouraged subordinates to take risks and rewarded them for innovative thinking.


The various leadership styles of head teachers we have seen so far are supported by the path-goal theory, which suggests that the same person can practice the different types of behavior at different times in varying situations. By using any of those styles the manager tries to influence subordinates' perceptions and motivation and make easier achieving their goals.


However, this theory can be criticized because not in all schools or organizations the transition from one leadership style to another can be easily practiced. According to Yukl the weakness is in the use of expectancy theory as the main basis for explaining leadership. It provides an unrealistic description of human behavior. The theory treats each type of leadership style separately "without addressing likely interactions among the behaviors or interactions with more than one type of situational variable".


The research findings in this report highlight the intensity and complexity of the leadership role of schools in difficulty. The head teachers shared high expectations and a determination to achieve the highest possible standards. The research found that effective leaders in SFCC adopted different leadership styles in different circumstances; they were people-centered, invested in various forms of teacher leadership as well as promoted collaboration amongst colleagues, teamwork and participation in decision-making. It could be argued, though, that not all head teachers can and will be willing to adopt these measures and different styles of leadership, because to do this they have to change their core beliefs, moral values and attitudes, which is difficult in practice and sometimes even impossible.


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The teenagers of the Just Wait Teen™ program  are exposed to the information and research concerning their Happiness, their Temperaments, their Talents, their Attributes, their Gifts and how to maintain long term relationships. The Just Wait Teen™ program  is life enhancing program, not a substance rehabilitation program. Although its' objective is to give the teens tools and understandings to reach 21 years - substance free.

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