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Personal Leadership for Wellbeing

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The transformation of teachers into effective leaders commences with profound self-knowledge that advances as they heed their inner voices, take responsibility for who they are, and contemplate their unique life experiences. Teacher-leaders share a collective passion for the promises that education offers and value the space to have an authentic voice in the system. Genuine teacher-leaders know who they are; they identify and employ their signature strengths and recognize and offset their limitations. Furthermore, they are cognizant of what they need, why, and how to express such needs in ways that prompt collaboration and assistance (Bennis, On becoming a leader. Basic Books, 2009). This chapter is about language teachers taking control over their own wellbeing—both in life circumstances that happen to them as well as in the intentional activities they can initiate to act on their circumstances.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple and it is also that difficult.

—Bennis (2009)

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    Tammy Gregersen

  2. King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thonburi, Thailand

    Hayo Reinders

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Gregersen, T., Reinders, H. (2023). Personal Leadership for Wellbeing. In: Reinders, H. (eds) Language Teacher Leadership. New Language Learning and Teaching Environments. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42871-5_5

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