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Is Strategic Thinking just a Fancy way of saying Charter?

Is Strategic Thinking just a Fancy way of saying Charter?. Chris France cfrance@nzsta.org.nz. What is strategic thinking Strategic Review Strategic thinking at different parts of the Charter process. Be a strategic thinking part of your charter. Workshop Objectives.

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Is Strategic Thinking just a Fancy way of saying Charter?

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  1. Is Strategic Thinking just a Fancy way of saying Charter? Chris France cfrance@nzsta.org.nz

  2. What is strategic thinking Strategic Review Strategic thinking at different parts of the Charter process. Be a strategic thinking part of your charter Workshop Objectives

  3. Strategic thinking is the process by which an organisation’s direction givers can rise above the daily managerial processes and crises to gain different perspectives of the internal and external dynamics causing change in their environment and thereby give more effective direction to their organisation. Such perspectives should be both future oriented and historically understood. Strategic thinkers must have the skill in looking both forwards and backwards in the knowledge of where their organisation is now … Bob Garratt – Developing Strategic Thought

  4. The charter is the key working document for your board and is the basis of all board activity. The School Charters Page 4

  5. Henry Mintzberg The 5 Ps of Strategy created in 1987 show. Each of the 5 Ps stands for a different approach to strategy: • Plan. • Ploy. • Pattern. • Position. • Perspective.

  6. School Charters Page 4 This page has plenty of focus on 3 of Mintzberg’s 5 P’s, PLAN (advanced purpose), PATTERN (the successful past), and PERSPECTIVE (influence of organisational culture), and not enough on POSITION (reflecting a unique place in the school market). PLOY is to be ignored!

  7. Richard Chait – Governance as Leadership

  8. Richard Chait – Governance as Leadership Type I – Fiduciary, ensure that organisations’ are true to their mission, accountable for performance, and obey the law. Type II –Strategic the work of boards that enables them, with their management, to set organisational priorities and direction, and to focus resources on that direction. Type III – Generative mode, the board as thoughtful leaders bringing insight to critical issues confronting the organisation BEFORE or WHILE policies, strategies, plans and tactics are formed and discussed.

  9. Richard Chait – Governance as Leadership

  10. David Renz Fundamentally, governance and strategic leadership are about making informed organizational choices: choices about why we’re here, what we want to accomplish, the best ways to achieve those results… Strategy is the process of selecting among alternative courses of action, using the chosen goals and outcomes as the basis for the selection, and implementing these strategies to achieve these results and outcomes…

  11. Glenn Tecker – The Will to Govern “If the plan has not articulated core purpose or value, it cannot give a clear sense of the organisation’s identity; if there is no articulation of an envisioned future, an audacious goal, or a description of how the world of members (students) will be different once the objectives are achieved, there is no clear idea of what the organisation seeks to become. The goals in place may focus on what the organisation will do, often overlooking member(student) benefits expected to result from what is done.”

  12. School Charters Page 4 Right hand column... The Introductory section of the Charter includes Mission, vision, and values. Can I urge you all, OWN your Vision, OWN your mission and OWN your Values. The Vision is your ultimate strategic goal on behalf of your community. This is where the rubber meets the road in consulting your community in your charter review.

  13. Stephen Bungay – The Art of Action “At its most simple, executing strategy is about planning what to do in order to achieve certain outcomes and making sure that the actions we have planned are actually carried out until the desired outcomes are achieved”.

  14. School Charters Page 5 Boards must do more to connect all those actions in the Annual Plan back to the strategic section! All the authors we have shared today, in one way or another, make the point that boards need to monitor progress towards strategies if they are to govern effectively.

  15. NZSTA thanks you for your attendance. I hope you got something useful from the session. Enjoy the remainder of conference. Thank you

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