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Powerful Inquiry
Leading With Questions to Build Leadership Capacity in Your School and District
Leaders, develop your capacity for social-emotional intelligence and foster growth, openness, and trust in your staff using Powerful Inquiry. The authors provide tools and resources that encourage principals, team leaders, and district leaders to challenge the traditional leadership model, welcome all voices, and establish an evolving learning organization that benefits everyone. Learn how leading with questions can support building specific leadership competencies.
Benefits
- Develop a learning organization using inquiry-based strategies, tools, and frameworks.
- Establish a growth mindset across a school or district.
- Acknowledge bias and address any resistance getting in the way of change.
- Foster an environment of psychological safety and interpersonal trust.
- Distinguish between empowering and disempowering questions.
- Promote equity and inclusion by giving voice to marginalized individuals.
- Build the capacity for self-awareness in leaders and staff.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I: The Individual Leader
Chapter 1: Leading With Questions to Build the Mindset and Skill Set for Leaders
Chapter 2: Leading With Questions to Build Emotional Intelligence
Chapter 3: Leading With Questions to Create a Psychologically Safe Space to Lead and Learn
Chapter 4: Leading With Questions to Promote Authentic Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Chapter 5: Leading With Questions to Break Through Immunity to Change
Part II: The Team Leader
Chapter 6: Leading With Questions to Build High-Performing Teams
Chapter 7: Leading With Questions to Promote Team Learning
Chapter 8: Leading With Questions to Promote Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging for Teams
Part III: The System Leader
Chapter 9: Leading With Questions to Develop a Learning Organization
Chapter 10: Leading With Questions to Promote Districtwide Change and Transformation
Appendix: More Book Study Questions for Self-Reflection and Connection With Others
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Chapter 5: Leading With Questions to Break Through Immunity to Change
Chapter 6: Leading With Questions to Build High-Performing Teams
Chapter 8: Leading With Questions to Promote Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging for Teams
Chapter 10: Leading With Questions to Promote Districtwide Change and Transformation
- Figure 10.3: Using the Fishbone and the Driver Diagram to Lead With Questions for Positive Change
- Figure 10.4: The Five Phases of Design Thinking
- Figure 10.5: Collective Immunity to Change
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Books
- DuFour, R., DuFour, R., Eaker, R., Many, T. W., & Mattos, M. (2016). Learning by doing: A handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (3rd ed.). Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
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Chapter 4
Chapter 6
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
