Hands-on, Practical Guidance for Educators

From math, literacy, equity, multilingual learners, and SEL, to assessment, school counseling, and education leadership, our books are research-based and authored by experts on topics most relevant to what educators are facing today.

Look Inside

Leadership and Futuring

Making Visions Happen

Second Edition
By: John R. Hoyle

Foreword by Edward Cornish, Founder and Former President, The World Future Society

Become an extraordinary visionary leader with the knowledge and skills to make great things happen!

Hoyle's updated book serves as a guide for visionary leaders striving to lead, inspire, and motivate students and team members toward positive personal visions, successful lives, and fulfilling careers. Characteristics of an effective leader are highlighted, along with:

An explanation of the relationship between leadership and futuring
A description of seven visionary leaders
The link between motivation research and contemporary organizations
Inspirational stories of visionary leadership
Step-by-step futuring techniques for workshops
Suggestions on how to create, communicate, and put forth a service vision

Full description

Look Inside

Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412938488
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2006
Page Count: 136
Publication date: July 06, 2006

Price: $26.95

Select Format:

For Instructors

Request Review Copy

When you select 'request review copy', you will be redirected to Sage Publishing (our parent site) to process your request.

Description

Become an extraordinary visionary leader with the knowledge and skills to make great things happen!

Well-educated, charismatic leaders who can improve systems to enrich the lives of others are needed today more than ever. In this updated edition, John Hoyle identifies vision, motivation, flexibility, and openness to invention and opportunity as key characteristics of effective leaders, and challenges school administrators to think outside the box—to explore the vital links between effective leadership and visioning for the future.

Illustrating new and vivid team-building exercises, this excellent resource guides educators striving to lead, inspire, and motivate students and team members toward positive personal visions and a successful life and career. The book also:

Explains the relationship between leadership and futuring
Describes seven visionary leaders
Links motivation research to contemporary organizations
Offers inspirational stories about successful visionaries
Provides step-by-step futuring techniques for workshops
Suggests how leaders create, communicate, and put forth a service vision

Leadership and Futuring is about dynamic change based on visionary leadership not just for today but for the future—in education, business, government, and any field.

Author(s)

John R. Hoyle

John R. Hoyle, a professor of educational administration at Texas A&M University, is an authority on the superintendency, leadership research, and future studies. He served as president of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration and was the first recipient of the NCPEA “Living Legend Award.” In a 2004 survey, Hoyle’s peers selected him as one of the four most “exceptional living scholars” in educational administration. Hoyle served as chair of the AASA National Commission on Professional Standards for the Superintendency and authored the document Professional Standards for the Superintendency. He has written numerous books, book chapters, articles, and papers and is a popular consultant, seminar leader, and motivational speaker.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

1 What’s Leadership Got to Do With Futuring?

2 Visionary Leaders I Have Known and Others I Wish I Had Known

3 Motivating Others to Engage in Futuring

4 Making Visions Happen

5 Staff Development Techniques to Envision and Create Real-World Programs

6 The Visionary Leader You Can Become

Bibliography and References

Index

Reviews

"A book about broadening skills to create new and exciting learning organizations that take people to places they have never been."

Future Survey, December 2006

"Hoyle does an excellent job showing best practices through stories and experience."

NACADA Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2

Other Titles in: Principalship | Leadership | Superintendents & District Administration

Select Format:

For Instructors

Request Review Copy

When you select 'request review copy', you will be redirected to Sage Publishing (our parent site) to process your request.