METHODS / SOUND INNOVATIONS
Don’t Just Wish for Better Leaders,
Create Them with Sound Leadership!
Sound Leadership
By Scott Lang
Let your students take ownership of their own learning
and leading through Sound Leadership, a leadership
method book for band, choir, and orchestra students.
This workbook is designed to help facilitate an engaging
and collaborative process between both student leaders
and program directors that allows for self-discovery,
goal-setting, and defining roles and responsibilities.
UN IT 2 | YOUR TEAM
5 LEADERSHIP TEAM
ASSESSMENT
Key Takeaway
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Prior to preparing any future plan, it is important to know your starting point
so you can measure your growth. As a part of this process, it’s also important to
note what is working really well and needs to be left alone.
Take some time to consider the questions and answer them thoroughly
and honestly. This is not a gripe session, just a chance to know your group’s
strengths and weaknesses. Try and set aside situations involving individuals and
focus on the group as a whole.
To read and complete this section of the course will take some time (approximately
30–45 minutes) so be sure you have the time to complete it before starting.
and the subsequent
UNIT 2 | YOUR TEAM
6 GOAL SETTING
Setting and achieving goals is an important part of any leadership journey.
Even in failure, the desire to strive for something difficult to attain is a noble
act in and of itself. Setting and attaining goals is where your leadership journey
takes on a life of its own. Now is the time when you are no longer training to
be a leader but are expected to act like a leader. Everything up to this point will
prove to be pointless if you are unable or unwilling to take the next step: TO
ACTUALLY LEAD, execute, and help move the group toward its desired goals!
A good, honest place to start is to think about all of the goals you have set in the
past that you have failed to achieve, and you’ll get a sense for what lies ahead.
Remember your last New Year’s resolution? Remember the goal you set on the
first day of school last year to procrastinate less and work harder? Remember all
of the things you said you were going to do during your summer vacation?
I think you get the idea that most people don’t even remember, much less
achieve, their goals.
Students will process through a:
Personal leadership inventory
Complete leadership team assessment
Task assessment & job creation
Series of situational discussion starters
Specific and strategic goal-setting activities
Leadership contract
Leadership performance review
When completed, your students will have
their own personal leadership diary to keep
and cherish forever.
Student Workbook (00-47892) ................... $12.99
Working Hard and Burning On
From my experience, we don’t burn out because of the workload. We burn
out because we’ve lost the fire for what we do. Hence the term, burn out.
Our fire is out! The solution to burnout is not running away, it’s staying and
building a new fire.
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Scott Lang Leadership: Leadership Solutions for Music Education
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