Focus & Equip (2010.02): What drives your organization’s improvement?
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1-2-14 Shinkawa Cho, Higashi Kurume Shi, Tokyo 203-0013
To encourage coaching, get staff to ask questions
Want to encourage coaching in your organization? One way I encourage coaching is by developing sets of questions to be used in meetings and workshops. As a result of using sets of questions in meetings and workshops, staff have shifted toward asking questions and away from giving advice.
In the planning sessions I'm facilitating today, participants are using the following sets of questions to help others reflect:
Set 1
What drives your organization’s improvement?
So, what drives your organization’s improvement? A discussion? A book a leader just finished reading? Workshops that staff attend? The unwritten agendas of different leaders? Not sure?
Question: What do you want to drive your organization’s improvement?
My answer: Documented improvement plans. That’s right—documented improvement plans. I want my organization’s improvement to be driven by documented plans. That way, I and everyone else can review and share them.
And I want these documented plans to target mission achievement. What do I mean by that? At my school, our mission is to equip students to impact the world for Christ. One of our improvement plans is to further develop our curriculum so that we can better equip students to impact the world for Christ—not so that we can simply improve our curriculum.
To get an idea of the extent that documented improvement plans (that target mission achievement) drive your organization’s improvement, take the following assessment. Rate each item, using the following scale:
4: Consistently • 3: Usually • 2: Sometimes • 1: Rarely
___ Our improvement plans are documented.
___ Our improvement plans target mission achievement.
___ Our improvement plans drive organizational improvement.
___ Our organization’s improvement is driven by documented plans that target mission achievement.
3 questions:
Empower others to use assessment to help students apply creation-fall-redemption-restoration
Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “How can you use assessment to help your students better apply creation-fall-redemption-restoration?”
Define: Get the facts defined.
What excites/concerns you about assessing student application of creation-fall-redemption-restoration?
Analyze: Get the facts, feelings, and experiences analyzed.
Empower others to consider how to get students to understand that there’s a Biblical perspective of course content
Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “How can you help your students understand that a Biblical perspective can be applied to course content?”
Define: Get the facts defined.
What do your students think a Biblical perspective applies to? doesn’t apply to?
Respond: Get the facts responded to in terms of feelings/experiences.
What’s satisfying/unsatisfying about your students’ recognition that a Biblical perspective applies to what they study?
Analyze: Get the facts, feelings, and experiences analyzed.
1-2-14 Shinkawa Cho, Higashi Kurume Shi, Tokyo 203-0013
To encourage coaching, get staff to ask questions
Want to encourage coaching in your organization? One way I encourage coaching is by developing sets of questions to be used in meetings and workshops. As a result of using sets of questions in meetings and workshops, staff have shifted toward asking questions and away from giving advice.
In the planning sessions I'm facilitating today, participants are using the following sets of questions to help others reflect:
Set 1
- What’s your mission?
- What’s it take to carry out your mission?
- What’s already been accomplished?
- What helps you?
- What hinders you?
- What are your options?
- What will you do to achieve your goals?
- What is your mission? What are your goals?
- How would you categorize progress on your goals? Why?
- To what extent do your current action steps help you address your goals?
- What topics did you talk about in your tactical meeting?
- What action steps are you going to take before your next meeting?
- What did you learn by trying out different roles?
- What will help your team work together better?
What drives your organization’s improvement?
So, what drives your organization’s improvement? A discussion? A book a leader just finished reading? Workshops that staff attend? The unwritten agendas of different leaders? Not sure?
Question: What do you want to drive your organization’s improvement?
My answer: Documented improvement plans. That’s right—documented improvement plans. I want my organization’s improvement to be driven by documented plans. That way, I and everyone else can review and share them.
And I want these documented plans to target mission achievement. What do I mean by that? At my school, our mission is to equip students to impact the world for Christ. One of our improvement plans is to further develop our curriculum so that we can better equip students to impact the world for Christ—not so that we can simply improve our curriculum.
To get an idea of the extent that documented improvement plans (that target mission achievement) drive your organization’s improvement, take the following assessment. Rate each item, using the following scale:
4: Consistently • 3: Usually • 2: Sometimes • 1: Rarely
___ Our improvement plans are documented.
___ Our improvement plans target mission achievement.
___ Our improvement plans drive organizational improvement.
___ Our organization’s improvement is driven by documented plans that target mission achievement.
3 questions:
- To what extent do you want organizational improvement to be driven by documented improvement plans that target mission achievement?
- How can you ensure that organizational improvement is driven by documented plans that target mission achievement?
- What are you going to do?
Empower others to use assessment to help students apply creation-fall-redemption-restoration
Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “How can you use assessment to help your students better apply creation-fall-redemption-restoration?”
Define: Get the facts defined.
- Which parts of creation-fall-redemption-restoration do you tend to assess?
- What are your student learning results?
What excites/concerns you about assessing student application of creation-fall-redemption-restoration?
Analyze: Get the facts, feelings, and experiences analyzed.
- How does assessment impact student learning?
- How does assessment impact student application of creation-fall-redemption-restoration?
- How does assessment of student application of creation-fall-redemption-restoration impact your teaching?
- What helps you assess student application of creation-fall-redemption-restoration? What hinders you?
- How can you use assessment to help your students better apply creation-fall-redemption-restoration?
- What will you do?
Empower others to consider how to get students to understand that there’s a Biblical perspective of course content
Here's a set of DRAW questions you can use for a discussion of “How can you help your students understand that a Biblical perspective can be applied to course content?”
Define: Get the facts defined.
What do your students think a Biblical perspective applies to? doesn’t apply to?
Respond: Get the facts responded to in terms of feelings/experiences.
What’s satisfying/unsatisfying about your students’ recognition that a Biblical perspective applies to what they study?
Analyze: Get the facts, feelings, and experiences analyzed.
- On a scale of 1-10 (10 being high), how well do your students understand that a Biblical perspective can be applied to what they study?
- How would it help your students if they better understood that a Biblical perspective can be applied to what they study?
- What are 5 things you can do to help your students understand that a Biblical perspective can be applied to what they study?
- What will you do?