June Webinar: More About Our Topic
Fall 2020 was a bifurcation in the experiences of American school children and their families. Some lucky ones returned for in person instruction after the sudden and mass shutdown of the previous Spring, having some form of normalcy despite the raging pandemic.
The difference in how covid education was experienced was directly attributable to how a system’s leadership addressed this abrupt, significant, and unprecedented disruption.
In this webinar, we’ll delve into a pair-wise comparison to uncover approaches that worked and what leaders from all sectors can learn, including:
- How consolidating authority and responsibility centrally, despite good intent, to process incoming information, generate mental models, and issue instructions, too often fails.
- How leaders who become facilitators of distributed and collective intelligence, tap into the creativity innate in the larger system.
- Specific steps in crisis management that support a culture of rapid-cycle problem solving.
- Feedback mechanisms that work best among those planning, preparing, and performing, so shared wisdom keeps advancing.
- Approaches to build capacity in ‘ordinary’ times to be ready and responsive in times of crisis.
Capitalizing on distributed collective intelligence is hardly an approach limited to a pandemic shutdown/reboot for schools or any other institution. It is useful for any major transition a district (or other entity) might have to make.
But there is a caveat. This approach requires that capability, character, and connectivity is already diffused and practiced throughout the system. So mechanisms for building such capability in ‘ordinary’ times have to be cultivated and curated if they’re to be available during crisis.
Please
join us and share with your network, your team or anyone you think would learn from this session. And bring your questions too! We’ll have time at the end for some Q&A and I look forward to hearing your thoughts, comments and questions.
