Covington Community School Corporation...Development for our Children, while Ensuring Safe, Secure,...
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Covington Community School Corporation
Superintendent’s Advisory Council
Agenda
1. Launch Meeting 6:00 p.m.
2. Deliverables 6:04 p.m.
3. End In Mind 6:08 p.m.
4. Go – Forward Plan 6:14 p.m.
5. Brainstorming 6:47 p.m.
6. Debrief 7:25 p.m.
1. What Worked?
2. What Can We Do Better?
7. Good of the Order 7:28 p.m.
1. Next Meeting – October 23, 2018 – 6:00 p.m.
Deliverables• Tonight
• Launch Our Mission
• How Might We Succeed
• Everyone Counts, Everyone Matters
• Brainstorm Needs
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SAC Deliverables
• To Prioritize a Go – Forward Strategy in the areas of :
• Educational Excellence
• Operational Excellence
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Educational Excellence
• Curriculum and Instruction
• Extra – Curricular
• Community Service
• Leadership
Operational Excellence
• Facilities
• Safety and Security
• Processes and Systems
• Athletic Complex
For The Kids
We are going to do what is Right for the Children…
At the Right Time…
Which will ALWAYS be RIGHT NOW!
End In Mind
•To provide a Responsible Plan, which will Provide for Rigorous and Relevant Educational Development for our Children, while Ensuring Safe, Secure, Effective, and Efficient Operational Systems, Including Facilities.
• Identification of our Wildly Important Goals –WIGS
•A Prioritization of Needs
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“Few of us can do great things, but all of us can do small things with great love.”
- Mother Teresa
Integrate What You Learn Into Life
• To know and not to do, is really not to know
• To learn and not to do is not to learn
• To understand something and not apply it is really not to understand it
• It is only in the DOING, the APPLYING that knowledge and understanding are internalized
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Achieving Greatness
• By finding the right balance of four human attributes:
• Talent
• Need
• Conscience
• Passion
• The nexus of the four attributes:
• VOICE
• The unique personal significance we each possess
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4 Attributes• Talent
• What can you be the best?
• Need• What drives you?
• Conscience• What does it tell you?
• Passion• What are you deeply passionate about?
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Two Roads In Life
1. Find Your Voice – Inspire Others to Find Their Voice – GREATNESS
2. Lose Your Voice – Keep Others from Finding and Using Their Voice -MEDIOCRITY
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Finding Our Voice
1. Discover Our Voice
2. Express Our Voice
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Leadership Challenge
1. Inspire Others to Find Their Voice
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4 Roles of Leadership
1. Pathfinding
2. Aligning
3. Empowering
4. Modeling
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Pathfinding1. Demonstrate Personal Character
1. Habits
2. Integrity
3. Trust
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Aligning
1. Engagement of Others
2. Sharing Authority and Involvement
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Empowering1. Managing Change
2. Team Building
3. Accountability
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Modeling
1. Inspire Trust
2. Establish the Vision
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Execution
1. Making It Happen
2. Focused on “What Matters Most”
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Execution Gaps Occur When There Is1. Lack of Clarity – Not Knowing the Goals and Priorities
2. Lack of Commitment – No Buy In to Objectives
3. Lack of Understanding of what is Needed from Us
4. Lack of Synergy – Not Getting Along/Not Working Together
5. Lack of Accountability – Not Holding each other Accountable
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“Courage is not the absence of fear. Rather, the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”
Win - Win
“…is a belief in the Third Alternative. It’s not your way or my way: it’s a better way.”
- Stephen R. Covey
Win - Win
Characteristics –Seeks Mutual Benefit
Is Cooperative, Not Competitive
Listens More, Stays in Communication Longer, and Communicates with more Courage
Win - WinIs
• A Courageous Effort
• The Best Way to Get to Interdependent Relationships
• A Philosophy of Human Interaction Supported by an Abundance Mentality
• A Character – Based Code for Interactions
Is Not• Always Being “Nice”
• Always Achievable
• A Manipulative Technique
• A Personality – Based Though Pattern
Win – Win Elements
• Desired Results
• Clarification of the End In Mind and Objectives
• Guidelines
• Specify Boundaries and Deadlines
• Resources
• Identifying the Human, Financial, and Technical Resources Available for Accomplishing the Desired Results
• Accountability
• Identify the Standards and Methods of Measurement for Progress and Accomplishment
• Consequences
• Determine the Results of Achieving or not Achieving Win - Win
Win – Win Summary
• Comes from Character Traits of Integrity, Maturity, and Abundance Mentality
• Grows from High Trust Relationships
• Applied in 4 Dimensions: Character, Relationships, Win – Win Agreements, and Processes/Systems
Seek First To Understand, Then To Be Understood
“We need to listen to one another if we are to make it through this age of apocalypse and avoid the chaos of the crowd.”
- Chaim Potok
“Everyone’s life is so singular, so unique. Who will listen to understand that uniqueness?”
- Stephen R. Covey
Seek First To Understand, Then To Be Understood
Empathic Listening
Listening and Responding with the Heart and Mind to Understand the Speaker’s Words, Intent, and Feelings.
For The Kids
We are going to do what is Right for the Children…
At the Right Time…
Which will ALWAYS be RIGHT NOW!
For Good of the Order
Debrief
• What Worked?
• What Could We Do Better?