Learning from Experience: Create a Culture of Partnership With Your Leaders
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.
– Andrew Carnegie
INTRO
This activity will help you examine the effectiveness of your teams. Take action to work toward ensuring that you have a culture of partnership with your leaders.
OBJECTIVES
- Analyze current efforts connected to staff and professional development with the intent to align these efforts with your school’s identity and vision for readiness.
ACTIVITY
This activity will help your team focus on effective leadership practices designed to support the elevation and inclusion of stakeholder voices. Including an overview of:
- Effective communication
- Engagement
- Decision-making practices
REFLECT
What leadership practices are most effective in your work?
When do you prioritize using those practices most often?
The below activity is designed for professional team development.
Think back to two different experiences with a team:
1. An experience where it went very well, and you accomplished your goals
2. An experience where your team just didn’t get along or achieve your purpose.
Pinpoint four defining characteristics that set those two experiences apart.
Read the provided PDF Mobilizing Your A-Team.
REFLECT
Did any connections stand out from what you read, and the characteristics you identified when thinking about the team that accomplished its goals and the one that didn’t?
Based on your reflections on the experiences of different teams, and the connections with Mobilizing Your A-team, think about three actions you can take to work toward ensuring that you have a culture of partnership with your leaders.
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