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Everything you need to implement school change that gets results! If you’ve been wondering how to effectively lead and manage results-driven, system-wide implementations, look no further. Internationally recognized education expert Michael Barber explores exactly how to translate policy into practice for long-term, measurable results. Building on his groundbreaking book, Deliverology 101, Barber provides proven methods and clear steps to achieve successful policy implementation and offer practical solutions for reviving stalled reform efforts. New cases studies and embedded links help you develop a delivery “skillset” for building capacity, effective coalitions, and a coherent, flexible plan for implementation. Leaders and staff at both national and local levels will learn to: • Establish a Delivery Unit to set clear, measureable goals and build a reform coalition • Understand ...
Chapter 1D: Establish a Guiding Coalition
Establish a Guiding Coalition
System Leader Summary
Public leadership isn’t just an act of will; it depends on the support of other leaders around you. This is what John Kotter calls a guiding coalition: a critical mass of people, with the right types of formal and informal influence, who agree profoundly with you about the aspiration you’re trying to achieve and the work you’re doing to achieve it. By building and engaging a coalition before you need them, you have people you can rely on when things get difficult.
Most leaders are natural coalition-builders, and the lion’s share of the work in coalition-building will fall to you as system leader. This chapter takes a process that is instinctual for many and breaks it ...
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