Ben talked to us this week about Pipeline
leadership which I found fascinating. Ben quoted someone as saying “if an
organisation is well led, it will be effective”. We are a very well led team
(just like the ABs) and so our school should be a highly effective one.
Traditionally teachers are in Pipeline 1 –
they just have to be concerned about themselves and their role.
Traditionally team leaders are in Pipeline
1 and 2 – where pipeline 2 is all about the team and growing others with a
bigger picture lense.
Pipeline 3 is where the APs sit and they
are focused on building capacity with the team of adults and Pipeline 4 is the
Principal who has to be thinking and planning strategically.
In our environment Pipeline 1 and 2
overlap. As a team member I have to be in Pipeline 2 sometimes, as we all have
to hold each other accountable for our actions, we have to grow each other, we
work collaboratively so have to have an eye on the bigger picture, and we have
to ensure that our teaming BPP is being valued. This isn’t just Muireann’s job,
we all need to step up and do this.
Ben also introduced 2 new terms - FAE (Fundamental Attribution Error) and Naive Realism.
FAE is something that everyone does - we attribute a consequence of an action to that person's personality - we blame them, rather than look at the context of the error and find out why. We need to do more questioning and less "jumping the gun".
Naive Realism is the belief that your view is right and that if only everyone else was as rational as you are then they would understand it too. This struck a chord for me! Thinking about the Herrmann HBDI model where I am predominately blue, this logical and analytical side of me can cloud my judgement when I reach conclusions faster than others or my logic leads me down a path where no-one else is willing to follow.
The great thing about this is that I am aware of this side of me and one goal I have is to slow down . If i'm trying to convince someone of something the burden is on me to explain it better rather than them to "get it".
Naive Realism will stop teams growing, so it is essential that I keep this awareness and question the why.
Linking with the "Slow down" theme here are some quotes Muireann found;
Gee, you've been quite prolific in the recent times Tetli. I had to do a bit of catch up.
ReplyDeleteThe pipeline idea I think is immensely helpful in understanding each other's roles, but more particularly focus they have in those roles. It also means for us to be highly effective individually and collectively we need to ensure we know how to, and to actually operate in our pipeline.
Keep up the thinking and blogging Tetli, it will provide a useful resource for you over time. I think it is also helpful if you're not already to look back at your posts once a term. It usually provides you with a real sense of progress and momentum.
Thanks
Ben
Thanks Ben. I have a love/hate relationship with previous posts - some I cringe at - which then helps me realise how far I have come, and others prompt more thinking. Overall though, I can see the progress i've made in my thinking and making my posts more focused on my goals has been really useful.
DeleteGreat reflection Tetli. If it helps one of my goals is around patience and I have just talked about slowing down and really listening to others (and doing some slow brain thinking.) As we've talked about before - we need to move forward as a team. At times this can be frustrating but it will be more powerful in the long run.....Find opportunities to support someone else or help them clarify when you have already got something - this could be a way you can really support the team to move forward together.
ReplyDeleteI liked our discussion re. what Ben said about the fact that it doesn't matter what we do, as long as we are ALL doing it - developing our team identity rather than 4 individuals that work in their own way on their own thing - that is obviously going to take time.
I love how you highlighted "slow down" in blue - let's work on this as a team and together :) You rock!