STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT: WHEN COMMON SENSE TURNS ...
STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT: WHEN COMMON SENSE TURNS STRATEGIC
Luann Purcell, Executive Director, CASE Stacy Skalski, Director of Professional Policy & Practice, NASP Patti Solomon: GA Office of Exceptional Student Joanne Cashman, Director, NASDSE’s IDEA Partnership and NCSI
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IMAGES BEST DEPICTS YOUR SENSE OF COLLABORATION? How does that image capture what you believe about working together?
“Most people think that they are good collaborators, but our shared experience told us that most collaboration happens at a fairly low level”.
Leading by Convening IDEA Partnership
Session Goals - Participants will: 1.
Describe the connection between collaboration and engagement.
2.
View stakeholders as allies and assets.
3.
Differentiate stakeholder engagement from stakeholder management.
4.
Describe engagement as a driving strategy that should underlie every operational strategy.
5.
Differentiate technical and adaptive challenges.
6.
Understand the value of convening as a new leadership skill.
7.
Describe the value of engagement as a state and local strategy.
13
What is your relationship with stakeholders?
Stakeholder Management
Stakeholder Engagement
IDEA Partnership@NASDSE 2016
Interaction: The factor that separates management from engagement
IDEA Partnership@NASDSE 2016
Stakeholders as Allies and Assets: Grounding Beliefs
:
Table Dialogue • Reaction Question:
• Which beliefs seem most typical of the
collaborations in which you have been involved?
https://padlet.com/IDEAPartnership/9sh32o1kjvzx
Consultation, Collaboration and Engagement Current policy initiatives and new federal legislation emphasize the importance of stakeholder roles:
o
RDA holds stakeholder engagement as a core principle
o ESSA requires meaningful consultation with stakeholders
Table Dialogue •
What are the qualities of collaboration that should be present in order to ensure meaningful consultation or stakeholder engagement?
• What would these look like in practice?
https://padlet.com/IDEAPartnership/deuoeklcsws5
New Policy and Practice Questions • What makes consultation ‘meaningful’? • How does stakeholder engagement become
‘authentic’? • Is it collaboration if it is not... o meaningful?
o authentic? o active? o ongoing?
www.ideapartnership.org
Technical and Adaptive Challenges Technical
Adaptive
• Evidence
• Communication
• Experts
• Influencers
• Manuals
• Understanding
• Tools
• Agreement
• Protocols
• Willingness to make
personal change
The Leadership Challenge Learning that technical solutions are necessary but
often not sufficient Knowing when a persistent problem needs a adaptive
(relationship) solution Building adaptive (engagement) skills as a part of
strategy
Interaction Has Many Faces: Range, Frequency, and Role
Range
Frequency
Role
• Power differential • Supporters and critics • Players at different levels of scale
• Episodic or ongoing • Predictable interaction, sufficient to build relationships • Often enough so that stakeholders can take roles
• Fixed or shared leadership roles • Everybody comes as a learner
IDEA Partnership; 2014
A Lesson from Invitational Ed
Everything we do informs people that they are able, valuable, and responsible, or unable, valueless, and irresponsible. Nothing is neutral. (Adapted from Purkey & Novak 2016)
www.ideapartnership.org
Deeper Engagement: What ‘s at Stake?
• What could be gained?
• What could be lost?
IDEA Partnership@NASDSE 2016
... ad Not!
27
Delicate Balance
Technically Implemented
Evidence
Data
Practically Adopted
Context
Culture
IDEA Partnership: 2016
GA CAFÉ’: The Power of Engagement CAFÉ’- Circle of Adults Focusing on Education
• Building knowledge about evidence and data (Technical) • Building the capacity to contribute (Adaptive)
Meaningful Engagement: Technical + Adaptive
Lessons Learned in Adaptive Leadership • Who are your stakeholders? • Who cares and why? • Have a core team...but get outside the core team! • Ask yourself: Is engagement one way or two- way?
• What is your brand as a collaborator?... What do you want
it to be?
Acting on the Concepts Presented • Build on this session • Provide opportunities to contribute • Use the existing networks to accelerate
dissemination, understanding and use • Engage your networks in an ongoing way
Together, we will: • Create a usable and shareable tool: Infographic • Develop the tool with the intended audiences: NASDSE
and CASE members • Begin at this meeting: Interested?
• Continue beyond this meeting: Stay Connected!
Your Questions....
and Insights ....
Resources on Leading by Convening Download the Leading by Convening (LbC) Blueprint and Tools at: www.ideapartnership.org
Watch for LbC self study modules available February, 2017 at: www.ncsi.org
Luann Purcell, Executive Director, CASE Stacy Skalski, Director of Professional Policy & Practice, NASP Patti Solomon: GA Office of Exceptional Student Joanne Cashman, Director, NASDSE’s IDEA Partnership and NCSI
WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING IMAGES BEST DEPICTS YOUR SENSE OF COLLABORATION? How does that image capture what you believe about working together?
“Most people think that they are good collaborators, but our shared experience told us that most collaboration happens at a fairly low level”.
Leading by Convening IDEA Partnership
Session Goals - Participants will: 1.
Describe the connection between collaboration and engagement.
2.
View stakeholders as allies and assets.
3.
Differentiate stakeholder engagement from stakeholder management.
4.
Describe engagement as a driving strategy that should underlie every operational strategy.
5.
Differentiate technical and adaptive challenges.
6.
Understand the value of convening as a new leadership skill.
7.
Describe the value of engagement as a state and local strategy.
13
What is your relationship with stakeholders?
Stakeholder Management
Stakeholder Engagement
IDEA Partnership@NASDSE 2016
Interaction: The factor that separates management from engagement
IDEA Partnership@NASDSE 2016
Stakeholders as Allies and Assets: Grounding Beliefs
:
Table Dialogue • Reaction Question:
• Which beliefs seem most typical of the
collaborations in which you have been involved?
https://padlet.com/IDEAPartnership/9sh32o1kjvzx
Consultation, Collaboration and Engagement Current policy initiatives and new federal legislation emphasize the importance of stakeholder roles:
o
RDA holds stakeholder engagement as a core principle
o ESSA requires meaningful consultation with stakeholders
Table Dialogue •
What are the qualities of collaboration that should be present in order to ensure meaningful consultation or stakeholder engagement?
• What would these look like in practice?
https://padlet.com/IDEAPartnership/deuoeklcsws5
New Policy and Practice Questions • What makes consultation ‘meaningful’? • How does stakeholder engagement become
‘authentic’? • Is it collaboration if it is not... o meaningful?
o authentic? o active? o ongoing?
www.ideapartnership.org
Technical and Adaptive Challenges Technical
Adaptive
• Evidence
• Communication
• Experts
• Influencers
• Manuals
• Understanding
• Tools
• Agreement
• Protocols
• Willingness to make
personal change
The Leadership Challenge Learning that technical solutions are necessary but
often not sufficient Knowing when a persistent problem needs a adaptive
(relationship) solution Building adaptive (engagement) skills as a part of
strategy
Interaction Has Many Faces: Range, Frequency, and Role
Range
Frequency
Role
• Power differential • Supporters and critics • Players at different levels of scale
• Episodic or ongoing • Predictable interaction, sufficient to build relationships • Often enough so that stakeholders can take roles
• Fixed or shared leadership roles • Everybody comes as a learner
IDEA Partnership; 2014
A Lesson from Invitational Ed
Everything we do informs people that they are able, valuable, and responsible, or unable, valueless, and irresponsible. Nothing is neutral. (Adapted from Purkey & Novak 2016)
www.ideapartnership.org
Deeper Engagement: What ‘s at Stake?
• What could be gained?
• What could be lost?
IDEA Partnership@NASDSE 2016
... ad Not!
27
Delicate Balance
Technically Implemented
Evidence
Data
Practically Adopted
Context
Culture
IDEA Partnership: 2016
GA CAFÉ’: The Power of Engagement CAFÉ’- Circle of Adults Focusing on Education
• Building knowledge about evidence and data (Technical) • Building the capacity to contribute (Adaptive)
Meaningful Engagement: Technical + Adaptive
Lessons Learned in Adaptive Leadership • Who are your stakeholders? • Who cares and why? • Have a core team...but get outside the core team! • Ask yourself: Is engagement one way or two- way?
• What is your brand as a collaborator?... What do you want
it to be?
Acting on the Concepts Presented • Build on this session • Provide opportunities to contribute • Use the existing networks to accelerate
dissemination, understanding and use • Engage your networks in an ongoing way
Together, we will: • Create a usable and shareable tool: Infographic • Develop the tool with the intended audiences: NASDSE
and CASE members • Begin at this meeting: Interested?
• Continue beyond this meeting: Stay Connected!
Your Questions....
and Insights ....
Resources on Leading by Convening Download the Leading by Convening (LbC) Blueprint and Tools at: www.ideapartnership.org
Watch for LbC self study modules available February, 2017 at: www.ncsi.org
