You value your stakeholders. And you know it’s important for your staff to have shared understanding about who your key stakeholders are and the roles these stakeholders play.
 
Question: How can you develop shared understanding?
 
Answer: By having your staff reflect on who your key stakeholders are and the roles your key stakeholders play.
 
Here’s what happened at this morning’s high school staff meeting at Christian Academy in Japan, where Anda Foxwell, high school principal, focused her staff on stakeholders (parents and students):
 
Anda began with a devotional on the role of parents (Deut. 4.9, 6.7, 11.19, 32.46). Then Anda had her staff reflect on stakeholder roles by considering 2 sections from the school’s philosophy statement:

• Parents assume the primary responsibility for their children’s education, with CAJ assisting them in providing Christian education.
• Students are valued as persons created in God’s image, are responsible for their learning, and can influence it by diligence, prayer for wisdom, and the application of God’s Word to their lives.

Finally, Anda tied staff reflection to 2 concrete activities—parent/teacher conferences (Nov. 25-26) and student-led conferences (Feb. 11). For each activity, staff identified the role of the student, teacher, and parent.
 
Reflect on who your key stakeholders are and the roles they play. Pursue excellence. Today.