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Strategic Thinking
Strategic Planning
Strategic Action
Dennis Ogherty, Frincipal
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Contents
در
Strategic Thinking
Preferred futures
3. Where are we now? ...
engagement
Strategic Intent/Plans
Why?
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Strategic Thinking
Whether we, as educators, like it or
not, schools are commercial
organisations that have to:
٠ make their budgets balance,
* compete for clients on an open
market,
* constantly reinvent themselves,
* understanding their purpose clearly,
* produce satisfied customers.
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Strategic Thinking
Strategic Thinking... not just Strategic
Planning
“the central challenge facing
school leaders today is to create
and lead an adaptive enterprise...
an organisation with the built-in
ability to sense and rapidly adjust
to change on a continuous basis”
Petersen W...Reinventing Strategy
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Strategic Thinking
Strategic Thinking (and planning) is
about the future of the school
We understand what the future
might be when we understand
- why the school exists
- who we are and
- what we aim to achieve
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Five key questions go to the
heart of what constitutes the
school’s future
What is important to us as an organisation?
- What sort of School? - What do we want to
achieve?
- What is our point of difference/distinctiveness?
What seems to be happening?
- What is working? What is working against us?
- What is the demand? What are the treddow will
- What are our competitors doing? we know
What are the possibilities? we have
What are we going to do? been
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The Preferred Futures
concept
Not the “normal” strategic planning
exercise
Not just the Possible!
Not just the Probable!
The Preferred Futures
Beare H: Chasing the Future Schoo!
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Where are we now?
Cultural Audit
The Engagement Index
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The Engagement Index
The Vocation
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The Engagement Index
What is Engagement?
“Engagement is a voluntary
state of connection with an
organisation.”
Teachers (sta Students and
Parents engag th the school
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The Engagement Index
Teacher Engagement
Teachers embrace the vocation of teaching for
many reasons.
* some because they like working with
children,
* some because they enjoy the challenge of
developing their students in all sorts of ways,
* others become teachers because they have a
passion for their subject area and,
* there are those few who are teachers
because the hours and the holidays suit their
lifestyle.
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Engagement
Whatever the reason for embracing the
vocation of teaching, teachers are then
employed in a school setting.
They are employed to lead their students to
learning, not just academic learning but that
learning we all need to become balanced
human beings.
For any teacher, to be able to do that happily,
the school (their employer) needs to provide
an environment with which they can engage.
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Engagement
Stage one:
٠ The first stage is a purely knowledge and
understanding level of engagement. In other
words, I know and understand about this
organisation so therefore I willingly become
engaged with it.
Stage two:
* Because I made the initial effort to engage with
the school on the basis of my knowledge of it, I
become motivated to be more and more
involved with the school and its activities. So
the second stage of my engagement is
involvement/motivation.
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Engagement
Stage three:
* As I become more and more involved with the
school and its activities I develop a level of
professional (and personal) satisfaction about
my connection with the school. So the third
stage of engagement is satisfaction. My level
of satisfaction may be strong or weak.
Stage four:
٠ When my level of satisfaction is high I may
move to the next stage of my engagement with
the school and develop a commitment to
and/or passion for the school as an
organisation, for what it is, what it stands for,
what is doing and how it does it.
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Engagement
Stage five:
¢ The most engaged I can be with
the school is when, as a result of
my commitment and passion, I
advocate willingly for the school.
So advocacy is the fifth and final
stage of engagement.
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Engagement
What is it about the school that I
engage with?
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Engagement
What connects the aspects to
the teacher and the teacher to
the aspects and therefore the
school?
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Engagement
The Mission/purpose and the Working Conditions have a
valuing effect that encourages my connection with the
school.
The Working conditions and the Leadership have an
inspiring effect on me
The Leadership and the Best Practice encourage my
emulating capacity
The Best Practice and the Opportunity the school provides is
empowering of me.
Finally, although the actions are always in perpetual motion,
The Opportunity and the Challenge have an energising
influence
The Challenge and the Mission are about embracing what
the school is about and its, and my, capacity to make a
difference.
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Engagement
The Mission/purpose and the Working Conditions have a
valuing effect that encourages my connection with the
school.
The Working conditions and the Leadership have an
inspiring effect on me
The Leadership and the Best Practice encourage my
emulating capacity
The Best Practice and the Opportunity the school provides is
empowering of me.
Finally, although the actions are always in perpetual motion,
The Opportunity and the Challenge have an energising
influence
The Challenge and the Mission are about embracing what
the school is about and its, and my, capacity to make a
difference.
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Engagement
Aspect 1: The Mission Ey
+ [understand the School’s Mission / purpesst 5
+ Limpart an understanding of the history and traditions of
the school to students
* Staff inspire others / students to embrace t
Mission and direction
+ The beliefs and values espoused by the امن
beliefs and values
221 الس مهمع اممطعع هط غنوطة عللها Staff proactively +
purpose for the students and others
+ The school’s Mission / purpose encourage a sense of
collegiality
* Staff demonstrate a commitment to the School’s Mission
purpose
I strongly believe in the School’s Mission / purpose
* I model the School’s Mission / purpose in all my dealings
with students
* The Mission / purpose is very evident in the day to day
operation of the school
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Engagement
The measurement
The person completing the questionnaire is
asked to rate each Item on two seven point
scales.
On the first scale the rating refers to the
level of importance the person places on
the particular item.
The second scale asks them to agree or
disagree with the Item according to their
personal position. The two scales approach
provides a valuable measurement tool.
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Engagement
If the person is asked, for example, just to
agree or disagree with the statement, the
inference is that they see all the items as
of equal importance.
Not all the items are of equal importance to
everyone.
To disagree strongly with a statement that
you rate of little importance is of less
consequence than strongly disagreeing
with a statement about an issue you
believe is really important.
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Engagement
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High Gap
High Gap
Low Personal Position Hig
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Engagement
The Gap score indicates the average
difference between the two rankings of an
item.
If the Gap score is high, e.g. 25% to 50% (or
higher) this indicates that this is a “crucial
item” and worthy of further attention
because the Gap obviously indicates a level
of emotional concern by the people who
have completed the questionnaire.
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Engagement
Gives a snap-shot of
the current situation
Staff, parents and
students
Highlights areas of
strength and concer
Pin-points source of
concern
Raises the “crucial
Wwarere are we
now?
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Where do we want to
be?
Creative think tank
Consider everything
From all the possibilities and the
probabilities comes the preferred
Mindful of the strengths and areas of
concern
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The Future
Focus
٠ The future of Australian society
° The future influence of religion,
societal norms and values as we
know them
¢ The future of education and schools
What are the implications for your
School?
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The Future...
The Future of Australian Society?
What's happening to marriage and the family?
* 42 per cent of contemporary marriages will end in
divorce
* Marriage rate the lowest for 100 years
* Shift in emphasis from ‘institution’ to ‘relationship'
* The Options generation - wait and see; ‘what else is
ere?’
* Birth rate lowest in our history ?
* Consequences for the age distribution of the population
- the single-person household
Most children have more parents than siblings
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The four
revolutions...
Beare
In the last 15 years we have all lived through
four simultaneous revolutions...
¢ Technology...restructured our idea of
knowledge
* Gender...redefined the rights of half of the
world’s population
¢ Culture...changed our view of what is important
about culture...global movement = loss of
identity
* Economic...total victory of economic rationalism
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The four
revolutions...
A child born in the last ten years...
She has a mindset fashioned by the four
revolutions
She is international in thinking
She is unlikely to marry before she is 32 (if at
all)
She will most probably have one child (if any)
She will have two or three career paths
She will live well into her 80’s
She is facing transformations of life on earth
that are beyond our imaginings
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The Planning
* Where are we now?
* Where do we want to be? (Preferred
Future...the Strategic Intent)
* How do we get from one to the
other?
(the Plan)
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Strategic Intent
The Preferred Future
Long term
What do we want the school and its
students/graduates to be like in
2020?
- clarify the mission/purpose
- create a new vision
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Strategic Intent
Focus on “big picture” concepts
* the learning environment
* the learning experience
¢ the global citizen
* the enterprise
* environmental sustainability
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Strategic Planning
* short term (3 to 5 yrs)
* educational management plans
* master plan (buildings and
facilities)
* business plan
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Strategic Planning
Features
* Goals...from the strategic intent
* Strategies...how will the goals be
achieved?
* Specific actions...what needs to be done?
* Responsibilities...whose job is it?
* Indicators...what will it look like when it is
done?
¢ Timeline...when will it be done? Achieved?
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Why?
¢ the best thing about the future
is that we can change it
* “I’m all for progress...it’s
change that I don’t like” max
Twain
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Why?
Planning is a timetable for taking
deliberate actions to maximise the
chance of achieving your
preferred futures, a road map to
guide you to the future of your
choice
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Why?
Strategic thinking describes
the process of constant
inquiry and change which is
essential if the organisation
is to not only survive but to
thrive.
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