Facilitation of Reading Strategies Judi Apte

Sustainability in partnerships The leadership skills that are required when inter-professional communication has become: ‘stuck’ habitual or polarised. Judi Apte EOS Management

Dilemmas in partnerships Professional identity: Confirmation of identity: more comfortable if similar philosophy, approaches and concepts feel curiosity or threat when faced with very different perspectives of reality? Concern I could reduce my specialist expertise: “all become grey” will I get as much status if…..? Judi Apte EOS Management

Dilemmas in partnerships Territory: shared place v.s. unique place Where should the overlaps be? Where should the boundaries be? Power: what influences the course of action? ‘Who knows the most here’? Who has strongest link to the client? Who is most persuasive? Jo Rose Judi Apte EOS Management

What is a reading strategy? A reading strategy is a strategy to interpret ‘what is going on’ in a situation Readers have both a strategy and a repertoire that they bring Bruner 1986 Judi Apte EOS Management

Facilitating across readings “The alternate ways of reading may battle one another, marry one another, mock one another in the reader’s mind”. Bruner 1986 Judi Apte EOS Management

Reading strategies model Foundational + cultural + pragmatic Defensive + empathic + personal Evaluative + rhetorical + explorative Judi Apte EOS Management

Foundational reading Focuses on pre-determined ideological commitments, professional knowledge, philosophical and/or ethical base. Judi Apte EOS Management

Cultural reading Focuses on significant meanings and expectations of cultures, including cultures of: an organization an ethnic/cultural group a professional community a community of practice. Judi Apte EOS Management

Pragmatic reading Focuses on the consequences of actions and outcomes and how to get there Judi Apte EOS Management

Defensive reading Focuses on actual or potential threat ‘Warriors together’ Judi Apte EOS Management

Empathic reading Imagines and anticipates the perspectives and responses of specific audiences Judi Apte EOS Management

Personal reading Focuses on aspects that resonate with one’s own experience Judi Apte EOS Management

Evaluative reading Identifies and assesses the effectiveness of ideas, actions and approaches Judi Apte EOS Management

Rhetorical reading Focuses on the ways that actions and communications are being constructed and expressed Judi Apte EOS Management

Exploratory reading Focuses on possibilities, emerging ideas and new actions Judi Apte EOS Management

Reading strategies model Foundational + cultural + pragmatic Defensive + empathic + personal Evaluative + rhetorical + explorative Judi Apte EOS Management

Reflection on the pattern Which reading strategies are used most often and are strongly represented? Why are they valuable? Are any overly strong? Are any missing? Which are high in influence/ professional kudos? Judi Apte EOS Management

Considering problematic interactions What is the sequence of reading strategies? How am I being engaged in this sequence? ‘gripping narratives’ Is this a usual pattern, or even an habitual one? Are any alternative reading strategies ‘prohibited’ or despised? Judi Apte EOS Management

Facilitation strategies Interrupt: don’t add my part in the sequence Broaden the repertoire: introduce an alternative reading strategy Shift incentives and kudos: nurture voices from below & from the side Judi Apte EOS Management

What concept of leadership is implied by this approach? “Not authority in the sense of one who claims and enforces knowledges, dictating to others what is 'really' the case, but as a speaker who mobilises existing discourses in new ways, inverting, inventing and breaking old patterns”. Davies 1991: 51 Judi Apte EOS Management