My journey with faculty leadership and management.

I have procrastinated about this long enough, I need to seriously start developing this performance plan.  It is surprisingly more difficult than I predicted, partially due to the fact that I have enjoyed the sensation of “drifting” as unexpected projects and roles come my way.  However, as I realise the impact this has on my staff members I need to focus on the development of this plan.

In preparation I have completed two tasks.  The first was to establish and ask my staff and upline management to contribute to a johari window.  A Johari window is described as a model for mapping personality awareness.  It allows me to compare what I think of my personality to that of what my staff think.  It will also provide me a relative strength of each response, indicating which traits were identified by more than one person.  I intend to use this in comparison to a survey where I will ask my staff what they desire my traits to be.  This will inform my plan as I consider how I can best address the needs of my department.

Secondly, I created a mind map identifying the range of roles I currently have.  The family section is currently incomplete, however I believe I have represented my professional duties.  The mind map is below.

This informs me of a couple of things.  Firstly, I am active in a number of roles and organisation and planning needs to be structured to ensure productivity.  Secondly, it clearly outlines the roles that I should be performing whilst at school.  DETA jobs need to take priority when at my place of employment.  Remembering this may assist ti further enhance organisation and continue to combat the perceived perception of my staff in relation to my leadership and management time.

I’ll devote some time to reading and reflecting on the “Developing Performance Framework” from DETA, and using these templates to generate some further feedback and planning thoughts.  I’m now re-reading First Things First by Stephen Covey, Roger Merrill and Rebecca Merrill.  I have never read this completely so my focus is to read it, reflect and develop this plan as efficiently as possible.