Abdulghani Sankari’s Post

Absolutely agree Arnna Graham —differentiation is often misunderstood and oversimplified. As leaders, we need to approach it in a way that empowers and elevates everyone in our team, recognising their unique strengths and challenges. True differentiation in leadership means supporting each team member in their journey, meeting them where they are, and providing the tools they need to succeed. It’s not about creating different standards, but about creating equitable pathways so everyone can reach the same goals. Leaders who differentiate for their employees foster an environment of growth, belonging, reflection, and innovation. They model flexibility, empathy, and strategic thinking—ensuring that every team member feels valued and has the opportunity to excel. Let’s shift the narrative and focus on equity rather than just levels or groups. It’s about building the capabilities of individuals while maintaining high expectations for all. How do you differentiate for your team to help them thrive? #Leadership #Differentiation #EquityInLeadership #TeamSuccess #InclusiveLeadership

Leaders Differentiate Differentiation is THE word of education that we all hear about,. We throw it around as valuable, and it is. It is important, however it is probably the most difficult education concept to actually understand, define, implement, measure, teach and explain. Every inspection, classroom observation and tool that measures impact looks for differentiation. But what is it? Can you define it? And then what does it look like as leader as you lead your team? Do you model it? In short, differentiation is about meeting needs, navigating different pathways to the same end point. Differentiation is an education label or synonym for equity. Equity is about getting to the same end point. This is the part that we have missed. Along the way, as we over-simplified things, and tried to make sense of an incredibly difficult concept, it became about putting people in to groups and giving different people different levelled tasks, and sadly, having different expectations of different people. There is a different way of thinking we could bring to this. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dBMWvu3q

Can reading literature be a way to do our inner work? More specifically, can it help us grow as leaders? Recently, Meryl Herr sat down with Karen Swallow Prior, author of On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books, to find out how influential literature is on our character and leadership. Read more of their discussion in the article, "Can Reading Fiction Be Inner Work?" https://lnkd.in/eyAYEKYQ

How teachers shape leaders of tomorrow

Leadership is a process of self development, If only one could be taught how to lead!!! It requires the willingness & ability to learn how to lead! We learn from our experiences & facing adversity. Stepping outside of the spaces where we feel safe, is a powerful teacher!

What should leaders handover when they leave an organisation? I have very few " files" to give, not much charge , power, status or JDs to transfer. What do I mean by this? When you enrol the whole team, empower them and include them, what you handover is priceless. You handover -Ethos -Ideologies -Philosophical underpinning -Beliefs and Basic assumptions -Organisation values -Balanced ways with task and relationships while passion drives the profession -Courage to steer new norms and innovation And much more.... Then the files and portfolio transfer are mere symbols.... Thus, the shared vision doesn't stay as an idea but becomes the DNA of the school. You become part of larger than self. Another one I wrote 20 years ago as part of the envisioning exercise.

Teaching grows the teacher. Leading grows the leader. Want someone to grow in either? Allow them the space to do either. Most likely, your crew has insights you aren’t aware of that help foster growth. Prompt them, and allow them to have a work shop based on their strongest metric.

Leaders are born, not made. As a kid, I used to hear people saying, "you are not made for leadership". Utter BS.. No one is born a leader. It isn’t in your DNA. Leadership is a learned ability that comes from practicing, failing, learning & practicing again. You want to take it to a whole different level? Teach it. There is no better way to learn anything than teaching. Teaching is the ultimate form of learning. My deep respect to all the teachers. Never stop learning & never stop teaching.

As a part of my IDP I´ve read this book and really recommend it. However, I got some ideas that I want to share to whom is interested in safety+leadership: 🤝 Trust + Psychological safety are sings of mature safety culture. 🧐 Zero harm programs must be reviewed. 🚀 Does your company have a core values? Check them. Adult-Adult leadership based on core values show care, trust and psychological safety as a result. 🚨 Language matters: Advisors to coaches, accident to learning event, accident investigations to learning review, audits to continuos improvement opportunities. 🌦 Finally, it works cascaded down throughout the organization, as usual.

The Selflessness Experiment: How Helping Others Shaped My Success and Perspective Ten years ago, I conducted a year-long experiment, a selfless experiment, inspired by a book I read in Shanghai called “The Law of Karma,” written by the author of “The Diamond Cutter.” After finishing the book, I was struck by the thought, “What if others are actually me?” The principle in the book is that if you want to succeed, help others succeed; if you want to learn leadership, help others develop their leadership. So I started to apply this principle, even sacrificing my own interests. For example, there was a trainer who asked me to introduce them to a training company. Typically, trainers are reluctant to share their cooperating companies with other trainers for fear of losing training opportunities. But I decided to make the introduction anyway. https://lnkd.in/eYTbUzEu