SSATB Keynote on Open Leadership in Secondary Schools

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Speech at SSATB by Charlene Li on Sept. 22, 2011 in Phoenix, AZ discussing how independent secondary schools can practice open leadership and how they can create a coherent strategy around social media. Includes examples of how secondary schools can/should use social media.

Transcript of SSATB Keynote on Open Leadership in Secondary Schools

Using Social Media In Schools

Charlene LiAltimeter GroupTwitter: @charleneliEmail: charlene@altimetergroup.com

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OUT of CONTROL?

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How to give up control

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but still be in command

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It’s about RELATIONSHIPS

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STRATEGY

LEADERSHIP

PREPAREDNESS

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STRATEGY

LEADERSHIP

PREPAREDNESS

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Four goals define your Open Strategy

Learn

Dialog

Support

Innovate

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What you can learn from social media

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Engagement Pyramid12

Curating

Producing

Commenting

Sharing

Watching

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34%

26%

78%

63%

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Define Your Strategy With Goals13

Learn

Dialog

Support

Innovate

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Conversations, not messages

Human, not corporate

Continuous, not episodic

The New Normal14

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Use Twitter to engage in conversation

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Northfield Mount Hermon talks with prospective students, alums, students etc.

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Blogs provide a starting point for dialog

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Pull your social media into one place

http://www.nmhschool.org/nmhbook

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The “award” winning Hopkins social media site is run by students

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http://www.hopkins-interactive.com/

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But what do you do about unseemly conversations?

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Define Your Strategy With Goals21

Learn

Dialog

Support

Innovate

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Facebook supports Q&A22

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Use “The Wall” for updates23

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Use hashtags to find discussions24

List of Twitter Chat: https://bitly.com/hashtagchat

#isedchat

#collegebound

#collegechat

#higheredchat

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Define Your Strategy With Goals25

Learn

Dialog

Support

Innovate

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Starbucks involves 50 people around the organization in innovation

Over 100 ideas have been

implemented

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Use ratings to find out what’s working (and what’s not)

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STRATEGY

LEADERSHIP

PREPAREDNESS

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LEADERSHIP

PREPAREDNESS

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Leaderships means having followers30

“Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow.”

- From “The Leadership Challenge”

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Open Leadership31

Having the confidence and humility to give up the need to be in control,while inspiring commitment from people to accomplish goals

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10 elements of openness32

• Explaining• Updating• Conversing• Open Mic• Crowdsourcing• Platforms

Information Sharing

• Centralized• Democratic• Self-managing• Distributed

Decision Making

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Determine how open you need to be with information to meet your goals

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Platform

Crowdsourcing

Open Mic

Conversing

Updating

Explaining

Today

Visit open-leadership.com to conduct your own openness audit

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How open are you?34

Workshop at 10:30am will conduct the

audit

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Traits of Open Leaders35

Authenticity Transparency

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Transparency as an imperative36

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How Best Buy created Open Leaders

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Barry’s first post38

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Retailer Best Buy has 2,500 employees providing support via Twitter

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STRATEGY

LEADERSHIP

PREPAREDNESS

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STRATEGY

LEADERSHIP

PREPAREDNESS

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Social Business Hierarchy of Needs42

Source: Altimeter Group (August 2011)

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#1 Align social with key Strategic Goals

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Examine your 2011 & 2012 goals

Pick ones where social will have an impact

Start small, but now

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#2 Create a Culture of Sharing44

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#3 Discipline is Needed to Succeed

Can you add value?

Evaluate the

purpose

Respond in kind & share

Thank the person

Unhappy Customer?

DedicatedComplainer

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Comedian Want-to-

Be?

NegativePositive

Yes No

Do you want to

respond?

No Response

No

Yes

Take reasonable action to fix issue and let customer know action taken

Are the facts

correct?

Gently correct the facts

No

No

No

Yes

Are the facts

correct?

Does customer need/deserve

more info?

Yes

Explain what is being done to

correct the issue.

Yes

Is the problem

being fixed?

Yes

Let post stand and monitor.

No

Yes

NoYes

Yes

Assess the message

Adapted from US Air Force Comment Policy

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No relationships are perfect

Google’s mantra: “Fail fast, fail

smart”

#4 Master the Art of Failure

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Create

Sandbox

Covenants

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It’s about RELATIONSHIPS

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Charlene Li

charlene@altimetergroup.com

charleneli.com/blog

Twitter: charleneli

For slides, send an email to

slides@altimetergroup.com

For more information & to buy the

book

visit open-leadership.com

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Open Leadership Workshop

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It’s about relationships

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TransactionalOccasionalImpersonalShort-term

PassionateConstantIntimate

Loyal

What kind of relationship do you want?

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Why is social hard?

Because realrelationships require that you give up control

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Open Leadership54

Having the confidence and humility to give up the need to be in control,while inspiring commitment from people to accomplish goals

How to give up control, and be in command

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10 elements of openness55

• Explaining• Updating• Conversing• Open Mic• Crowdsourcing• Platforms

Information Sharing

• Centralized• Democratic• Self-managing• Distributed

Decision Making

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Explaining strategic decisions56

Open book management

Managing leaks

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Updating with every day stuff

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Conversing: John Deere on Facebook58

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Open Mic: When people contribute59

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Crowdsourcing new content60

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Open platforms make it easy to partner and share

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Open architecture Open data access

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Centralized Democratic

Consensus Distributed

Decision making models

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Determine how open you need to be with information to meet your goals

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Platform

Crowdsourcing

Open Mic

Conversing

Updating

Explaining

Today

Visit open-leadership.com to conduct your own openness audit

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How do you currently make decisions?• Acquisitions, partnerships

• Product development, branding/positioning

• Budgeting, hiring How effective is it? How would involving different/more people

have an impact? How would greater information sharing

improve decision making?

Evaluate your decision making process

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Assessment - How open is your organization?

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What kind of relationship do you want? Determine how open you need to be to get

that relationship. Conduct an openness audit of your

information sharing and decision making processes.

Identify and understand where you have the biggest concerns about giving up control.

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Thank you

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Charlene Licharlene@altimetergroup.com

charleneli.com/blog

Twitter: charleneli

For slides, send an email to

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Visit open-leadership.com