Focus & Equip (2010.06): To what extent are staff held accountable for improvement plans?

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How can you focus others?
By asking questions like:
  1. What’s your mission statement?
  2. What excites/concerns you about the mission?
  3. How does your work help achieve the mission?
  4. What helps you achieve the mission? What gets in your way?
  5. On a scale of 1-5 (5 being high), how focused are you on your mission statement?
  6. What can you do to increase your focus?
  7. What will you do?



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To what extent are staff held accountable for improvement plans?
When I am held accountable to get something done, I get it done. When I’m not held accountable to get something done, I might not get it done.
 
Tip: If you want to get your improvement plans done, make sure your staff are held accountable.
 
Question: To what extent are staff held accountable for improvement plans?
 
To get an idea of the extent to which your staff are held accountable for improvement plans, take the following assessment. Rate each item, using the following scale:

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

___ Leaders hold staff accountable to implement the improvement plans.
___ Staff hold each other accountable to implement the improvement plans.
___ Staff hold themselves accountable to implement the improvement plans.

___ Staff are held accountable to implement the improvement plans.

3 questions:

  1. To what extent do you want your staff to be held accountable for improvement plans?
  2. How can you increase staff accountability?
  3. What are you going to do?
Bottom line: Pursue excellence. Hold staff accountable to implement improvement plans. Today.



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At Christian Academy in Japan, Bible 9 students applied creation-fall-redemption-restoration to a variety of topics, including words and beauty. To think through how to do this, some students found it helpful to reflect on key questions.

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Empower teachers to help students understand how teachers teach from a Biblical perspective
Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “How can you help your students understand how you teach from a Biblical perspective?

Define: Get the facts defined.
  1. How do you teach from a Biblical perspective?
  2. What do you do to help your students understand how you teach from a Biblical perspective?
Respond: Get the facts responded to in terms of feelings/experiences.
  1. What satisfies/concerns you about how you teach from a Biblical perspective?
  2. What satisfies/concerns you about your students’ understanding of how you teach from a Biblical perspective?
Analyze: Get the facts, feelings, and experiences analyzed.
  1. What happens when your students understand how you teach from a Biblical perspective?
  2. What helps them understand this?
What’s next?: Get next steps considered.
What will you do to help your students understand how you teach from a Biblical perspective?