IV. Post-Recruitment

Over and over, the shared experience of education organizations is that the one factor separating a successful school from a mediocre one is the quality of the school leader. A strong school leader is a charismatic and forward-thinking individual, able to announce ambitious goals for student achievement and inspire the deep commitment of staff to realize them. In an ideal situation, the organization would need to intervene only a few times as the school leader would naturally solve all problems with only a motivating speech and some powerful hand gestures.

Back on earth this is almost never the case. No leader comes “ready-made” for success and even the most experienced and highly skilled leaders run into difficulty managing a school with or without mission-driven objectives. The previous sections of this practicum discussed finding strong leaders. The contents of this section will discuss what companies such as SUIS can do to develop and cultivate strong leaders after recruitment. The topics covered are training, evaluation, and inducing commitment.