1. Closing the Gaps Theory to Practice

2. Leadership Behavior For Consciously Creating Culture 1.Ensure that others understand what you expect from them 2.Identify and eliminate barriers to those behaviors 3.Model that behavior

3. Leadership Behavior For Consciously Creating Culture 4.Measure performance using your expectations as the standards 5.Honor efforts and progress 6.Confront unwillingness/bad faith

4. Step One Components 1.Characteristic (word or phrase) 2.Situation 3.Behavior

5. Step One Example Characteristic:Collaborative Situation:Forums for improving internal processes Behavior:Become more engaged

6. A culture that supports employee engagement is one in which it is safer to try & fail than it is to hunker & hope

7. Components of the Culture You Desire 1.Identify a characteristic of the culture you would like to bring to life in your district – see your foundational documents or examples provided in your handout

8. Components of the Culture You Desire 2.Next, identify a situation for which that characteristic is relevant, e.g., a situation in which the characteristic you desire would be especially important to your district’s success

9. Components of the Culture You Desire 3.Finally, describe the behavior you expect from employees in that situation, the behavior you would see as evidence that something that sounds good (characteristic) is also something that’s getting done (behavior)

10. Consciously Creating Culture Additional Components of the Culture You Desire The characteristic (word or phrase): The situation: The behavior:

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