1. The Power of Authentic Engagement NH SSIP Team Meeting December 16, 2016 Joanne Cashman, Ed. D

2. “ People support what they create”
Margaret Wheatley

3. Stakeholders: Who Are They?
They know the issue from different perspectives:
They contribute through:
Internal
External*
Authority
Influence
* If they are a stakeholder...
are they really external to the work?

4. Convening: A New Leadership Skill
Convening is:
More than a meeting
More than facilitation
The beginning of a relationship focused on practice change
Bringing people together in face to face and virtual ways is just the start…we have to find ways for people to contribute…and help them do it!
This is the new role as a convener……we are talking about convening across school and community efforts ..and sometimes across agencies…a ‘system convener’ role
So…why convene?
We need to become allies in making the changes to practice stick…we have evidence based practices…but face continual challenges to implementation and fidelity...no group, agency or organization can do it alone.
Predictable changes in leadership make it critically important to have deep understanding in the field that will help the work go on across leadership changes.
In the connected world we live in now…stakeholders expect to be engaged…to have a role. If we do not engage them authentically and as allies in accomplishing goals…..we risk having opposing groups undermine efforts with misinformation

5. Leading by Convening: Framework for Authentic
Why do we need a Leading by Convening framework?

6. Let’s look a popular tool for Coalescing:
Four Simple Questions
How might this tool be useful during the stages of implementation described in the SSIP?

7. Four Simple Questions Who cares about this issue and why?
What work is already underway separately?
What shared work could unite us?
How can we deepen our connections?
This tool works for almost every situation ..it can help state teams, local teams, stakeholder groups and individuals think through the nuances of collaboration. This tool is a classic and can and should be used as the ‘go to’ tool whenever boundaries must be crosses to begin a collaboration....or

8. Let’s look a popular tool for Relevant Participation:
Engaging Everybody
How might this tool be useful in thinking about an implementation science approach to teaming,
in the SSIP?

9. Relevant Participation Has Several Faces: Range, Frequency, and Role
Power differential
Supporters and critics
Players at different levels of scale
Frequency:
Episodic or ongoing
Predictable interaction, sufficient to build relationships
Often enough for stakeholders to take roles
Role:
Fixed or shared leadership roles
Everybody comes as a learner

10. Engaging Everybody
Engagement means finding ways that many people can contribute to the common work. Although they may all be involved, they all do not contribute in the same ways. This tool helps teams to understand how stakeholders may want to be engaged and define the work that they will do in support of the goals.

11. Dissemination Networks Extended Participants
Leading by Convening
Ensuring Relevant Participation
Dissemination Networks
Core Team
Key Participants
Extended Participants
Key Advisors
Feedback Network
Stakeholder Groups:
__________
Reflections:

12. Levels of Participation
Convene the group.
Take responsibility for structuring each convening and follow up.
Plan and monitor interaction.
Create engagement strategies.
Organize activities.
Communicate with decision makers.
Oversee review and evaluation.
Dissemination Web
Act as regular contacts for information on the issue.
Give advice and help the core team sense issues and adapt activities in a variety of contexts.
Make opportunities for the work to be reviewed within their personal networks.
Bring their personal network information back into the work of the Core group.
Promote the cross-stakeholder approach to problem identification and problem solving.
Join the core team periodically when their expertise is needed
Extended Partners
Key Participants
Core Team
Volunteer to become involved and represent the perspective of their organization and/or network.
Bring the perspective of their role and/or organization into the work.
Bring important learnings back to their networks.
Identify opportunities within their networks to showcase the learning.
Hold both their organizational identity and the group identity while interacting with the group.
Identify other practitioners and family members who may become active
Key Advisors
Feedback Network
Receive information.
Redistribute information through newsletters, news blasts, meetings, etc.
Submit information from newsletters, news blasts, meetings, etc.
Customize messages for their particular audience.
Communications Links

13. Create Your Description: Levels of Participation
Dissemination Web
Extended Partners
Key Participants
Core Team
Key Advisors
Feedback Network
Communications Links

14. Levels of Participation Where do you see yourself?
My Choice for Participation:
1st _________________
2nd _________________
3rd________________
Dissemination Web
Extended Partners
Key Participants
Your Name:
Your Contact Information
Phone:
Core Team
Key Advisors
If not you; who?
Name:
Contact Information
Phone:
Feedback Network
Communications Links
Source; Adapted from LbC by the AZ Office of Exceptional Children
Activity : Decide what levels of engagement are appropriate for you

15. When People Change ... Systems Change. Be the change! Shape your brand!
This tool focuses on the leader and their vision for the agency or division they lead. What they want and what they are willing to do to achieve it. What they know about themselves and what they are wiling to learn about their leadership style.
It is adapted from business...but permits good insights by educators.