Role-Specific Framework & Behaviors

Individual contributor, team player (does not have any direct reports)

Acceptance of the district/campus culture and adopting of professional standards

Planning so assigned work is completed within given time frames

• Primarily technical or professional- specific to role
• Ability to collaborate with others
• Demonstrating ability to handle additional responsibilities

Leads a small team,  maximizes individual contributors’ performance

• Shift from ‘doing work’ to getting work done through others
• Value managerial work: view other-directed work as their responsibility and  mission critical to their success; motivates others 

Reallocating/balancing time between individual contributions and coaching others

• Planning work, assigning work, motivating, coaching  and measuring the work of others.
• Ability to maximize the work of individual contributors and the team as a whole
• Provide input to identifying high potential talent

• Focuses almost exclusively on building capacity of others.
• Responsible for the successful shift of  behaviors and values of leaders of others
• Accountable for the success of a medium/large team or more than one team

• Shift to take a school/department-wide view, instead of just thinking about one team
• Instill and maintain appropriate leadership values in those who report to them

• Focusing almost entirely on influencing others, not on individual contributions
• Spending significant time coaching leaders of others to be highly effective 

• Strategic thinking across a larger set
• Identifying, cultivating and hiring people to become ‘leaders of others’
• Assigning leadership work to ‘leaders of others’, measuring their progress and coaching them as coaches
• Foster consensus among constituent groups with varied priorities
• Design systems and institutionalize processes
• Identifying high potential talent and hiring individual contributors

• Leads Campus – may manage areas outside their expertise
• Accountable for the culture and performance of the campus
• Responsible for success of entire school outcomes, including outcomes that may be unfamiliar/out of expertise

• Values shared vision, long-term strategy  and global perspective
• Values integrating many functions, balancing between current needs/results and long-term goals/results
• Creating strong school-wide culture

• Must prioritize time for strategic long-term planning and reflection.
• More time on creating and communicating a strong vision
• Spend time inspiring the entire employee population through a variety of communication tools
• Spend time managing external constituencies and advocating for the campus

• Strategic and cross-functional thinking
• Differentiated communication skills needed for more complex audiences and communicating through layers 
• Ability to advocate for your campus while also thinking about the good of the whole organization; Blend strategy with overall organization 
• Identifying high potential talent and ensuring hiring processes result in great people in every role