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Leaders can successfully engender positive relationships and develop healthy organizational cultures that advance powerful teaching and learning by focusing on the six relationship connectors described in this article. As professors of educational leadership, we can influence what happens in schools and we can assist practicing and aspiring leaders in developing healthy organizational cultures which are safe, collaborative, and creatively vibrant. We can help them manage highly contentious political environments with moral integrity and sensitivity to individual and group relationships. In addition, we can help them develop mutual trust, respect and support among all school employees in order to increase student achievement and create an environment in which all employees and students are successful.  \nIntroduction  \nThis year’s journal theme is The Managed Heart: Examining How Effective Leaders Engender Positive Relationships and Develop Healthy Organizational Cultures that Advance Powerful Teaching and Learning. In this article we discuss what leaders can do to ensure that deep within their hearts they feel positive about the jobs they perform each day in their schools and/or school districts.  \nThe work of school leaders is time consuming, challenging and often frenetic; at times it can threaten to take over one’s life. This new millennium has presented new and ever changing challenges for school leaders across our nation. How do leaders manage these challenging times and maximize positive situations? How can leaders avoid the cognitive dissonance they experience when they view themselves one way and others view them differently? How do leaders know that they are succeeding in advancing powerful teaching and learning and ensuring that students, faculty and staff thrive, not only survive? These are questions we have researched and written about and continue to do so as we prepare educational leaders.  \nCAPEA Education Leadership and Administration, Vol. 20—2008  \n©2010 DEStech Publications, Inc. 125  \n126 CAPEA Education Leadership and Administration  \nRelationship Connectors: A Theoretical Construct for Building Relationships  \nA phrase that constantly resonates with us is one by Seyfarth (2001, p. 236), “All individuals want to experience psychological success.” We don’t know of one school leader who goes to work each day and says,“I hope I fail today.” We strongly believe that all leaders want to be successful; they simply need the knowledge, skills, strategies, and a positive attitude to do so.  \nDeveloping and nurturing relationships are essential and critical facets of leadership; nothing gets done alone (Davis & Hensley, 1999; Ferrucci, 2006; Goleman, 2002; Hensley, 2006; Wheatley 2004) . According to Wheatley (2004, p. 8),“Thinking you can make it on your own is just nonsense and it is one of the most paralyzing concepts we have right now.”Fullan (2004) emphasized the need for leaders to build relationships with diverse groups especially with individuals different from themselves. After an extensive review of the literature and countless interviews with practicing administrators, we have developed a theoretical construct which specifically addresses relationship building. We posit that if one is to be successful as a leader in any organization, not just schools or school districts, then he or she must focus specifically on what we have labeled relationship connectors. Our relationship connectors include (1) communication,(2) support,(3) safety,(4) competence,(5) continuous renewal, and (6) trust. 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