chapter 12

• Administrative leadership


  Setting goals, orchestrating work, and mobilizing people to sustain an early childhood organization
• Alliance


  The state of being joined or associated
• Colleague


  An associate or coworker typically in a profession or in a civil or ecclesiastical office and often of similar rank or status. A fellow worker or professional
• Competence


  The quality or state of having sufficient knowledge, judgment, skill, or strength (as for a particular duty or in a particular respect)
• Decisiveness


  The ability to make decisions quickly and effectively
• Deliberation


  The act of thinking about or discussing something and deciding carefully
• Domain


  An area of territory owned or controlled by a ruler or government
• External community partnership


  Collaboration between an organization and external groups or communities to achieve shared goals, and address common issues
• Fiscal management


  The planning, directing and controlling of financial resources, whether for a private company or public agency
• Framework


  A structural frame, set of ideas or facts that provide support for something
• Harmonious


  Marked by agreement in feeling, attitude, or action
• Instructional leadership


  Leadership that supports the development of teaching and learning
• Interpersonal sensitivity


  The accuracy and/or appropriateness of perceptions, judgments, and responses we have with respect to one another
• Leadership


  The action of leading a group of people or an organization
• Negotiation


  The process of discussing something with someone in order to reach an agreement with them, or the discussions themselves. Discussion aimed at reaching an agreement
• Person-hood


  The quality or condition of being an individual person
• Professionalism


  The competence or skill expected of a professional
• Progress


  Forward or onward movement toward a destination
• Subordinates


  A person under the authority or control of another within an organization. Having a lower or less important position
• Supervision


  The action or process of watching and directing what someone does or how something is done