Focus (2009.10): How involved are your stakeholders in organizational improvement?

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How often do you empower others to explore their current reality?
You want to achieve your goal. And you want to take action now! Ever feel like that? I have. I like the energy, but I don’t necessarily like the results.
 
Why? Because when I take action without reflecting on my current reality, I forget to take into account things like family plans and my overall workload. What happens? I achieve things I don’t want (like family disharmony and personal fatigue), and I don’t achieve my goal.
 
Question: How often do you empower others to explore their current reality?
  • Consistently?
  • Usually?
  • Sometimes?
  • Rarely?
Make sure you consistently empower others to explore their current reality. What helps me do this is asking open-ended questions:
  • What’s happening?
  • How do you feel about this?
  • How is God using _______ in your life?
  • What are some other ways to look at this?
Question: What action steps will you take to ensure that you consistently empower others to explore their reality?
 
*To learn more about coaching others on the reality of their goals, click here.



How involved are your stakeholders in organizational improvement?
You want your organization to improve. You know that to improve, your organization must carry out its improvement plans. And you know that for your organization to carry out its improvement plans, your stakeholders must be involved.
 
Question: How involved are your stakeholders in organizational improvement?
 
To get an idea of how involved your stakeholders are in organizational improvement, take the following assessment (which targets school stakeholders). Rate each item, using the following scale:

4:
Consistently • 3: Usually • 2: Sometimes • 1: Rarely

___ Students support the improvement plans.
___ Parents support the improvement plans.
___ Staff support the improvement plans.
___ Leaders support the improvement plans.

___ Students are involved in implementing the improvement plans.
___ Parents are involved in implementing the improvement plans.
___ Staff are involved in implementing the improvement plans.
___ Leaders are involved in implementing the improvement plans.

___ Stakeholders support and are involved in implementing the improvement plans.


3 questions:
  1. How involved do you want your stakeholders to be in organizational improvement?
  2. How can you increase stakeholder involvement in organizational improvement?
  3. What are you going to do?
Bottom line: Pursue excellence. Get stakeholders involved. Today.