1. Seeding educational innovation: emergence through adaptive leadership Chris Jansen University of Canterbury, Idea Creation

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3. Communities Schools Classrooms Departments Growing leadership influence Individuals

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5. 8 Speed Complexity Uncertainty Ambiguity Opportunities Paradox Unintended consequences Lack of Control change is changing.. Information overload Interconnectedness of systems Dissolving of traditional organisational boundaries Disruptive technologies Generational values and expectations Increased globalization

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7. Apps MOOCs 3d printing Haptics Nanotechnology Arab spring BYOD Neuroleadership Virtual pop stars Crowdsourcing Hacking your education Flipped classrooms Online worlds Augmented reality www.thinkbeyond.co.nz

8. Technical challenges can be solved with knowledge and procedures already at hand Adaptive challenges embedded in social complexity, require behaviour change and are rife with unintended consequences 11

9. The greatest challenge for future leaders is the pace of change and the complexity of the challenges faced. 12 Our organisations are not equipped to cope with this complexity (IBM study 1500 CEOs) .perpetual white-water

10. Change Processes Change manager Driving change Alignment Change proposals Consultation Cynicism Social engineering Assumptions that get in the way People dont want to change.so it needs to be driven. If you allow people freedom to innovate discipline will disappear!? The management dont trust us.. 13

11. Are we in a catch-22: stuck between failing to change and changes that fail? 14

12. Can I lead positive and sustainable change? 16

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14. Complexity / Change / Uncertainty / Ambiguity Paradox / Lack of Control / Unintended consequences Adaptive challenges Leadership capacity Organisational capacity Self organising, adaptive, innovative, flexible, nimble, responsive, creative and resilient 18www.ideacreation.org

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18. a dynamic of experimentation and innovation

19. self organising 37 Self organisation emergence a collective of independent agents that self-organise in a dynamic manner in order to create emergencea patterned higher-order response to a threat or opportunity

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23. 41 How does self organisation work? independent agents interactions with neighbours decentralised control an attractor - motivated by threat or opportunity Self organisation leading to emergence Complexity thinking, complex adaptive systems, adaptive leadership www.ideacreation.org

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26. The Starfish and the Spider The unstoppable power of leaderless organisations Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom 44www.ideacreation.org

27. . . . Leaders vs leadership? Position of a leader vs action of leadership Hierarchies and Networks

28. The Innovation Stack Management innovation Strategic innovation Product/service innovation Operational innovation Gary Hamel The Future of Management 46 organisational processes/leadership roles communication and decision making initiatives, programmes etc pedagogy, technology etc timetable, processes etc www.ideacreation.org

29. Machine Living organism Hybrid? +Efficient, reliable, +innovative, responsive, nimble -Inflexible, slow to respond -messy and spontaneous 47www.ideacreation.org

30. Can leaders foster self organisation? 48www.ideacreation.org

31. ..get your goo glasses on when you walk into a room put aside the programme, cut out the strategy see the history, interactions, how wired they are, the group dynamics - look for the living breathing thing and then thats the stuff that grows. Duane Major 49 A key concept is Goo like primordial soup, you can see it moving and growing it involves people, relationships, you cant control it but you can notice it and foster itit changes and evolves its living and breathing.

32. Adaptive leadership: fostering self organisation Conditions for self organisation Leadership role 1. independent agents 1. Proactive mentoring of individuals 2. interactions with neighbours 2. Foster interaction and shared learning 3. decentralised control 3. Distribute power + decentralise control 4. an attractor - motivated by 4. Explore and articulate shared values threat or opportunity 50www.ideacreation.org

33. Complexity / Change / Uncertainty / Ambiguity Paradox / Lack of Control / Unintended consequences Adaptive challenges Leadership capacity Organisational capacity Self organising, adaptive, innovative, flexible, nimble, responsive, creative and resilient Distribute power and decentralise control Explore and articulate shared values Foster interaction and shared learning Proactive mentoring of individuals 51www.ideacreation.org

34. Layer 1: Proactive mentoring develop independent agents Recognise and value people Strong belief in people Prioritize them and take the time Creating space to empower people Notice, listen, appreciate Enlarge their self belief Recognise their strengths and passions Develop people They leave in better shape than when they arrived Create support structures to meet needs Make opportunities available Support initiative and boundary pushing Note achievements employee first customer second Anand Pillai 52www.ideacreation.org

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36. Who are you actively developing and looking out for? Who is looking out for you? How could we increase this informal mentoring? 54www.ideacreation.org

37. The Roles of a Manager Leadership (Vision & people driven) Management (Office bound/paper driven) Professional (Teaching role) Plan Organise Control Administer systems Critique Create Order Vision Meaningful Contribution Values Engage and develop people Create context Commitment, Change & Hi- Performance Cammock (2001) The Dance of Leadership Compliance & Status-Quo Efficiency 55www.ideacreation.org

38. Hows the balance of leadership vs management in your role? Satisfied?........ 56www.ideacreation.org

39. Layer 2: Foster interaction and shared learning interactions with neighbours a healthy organisation is one in which all participants have a voice (Peck ,1988). Develop culture Creating environments Fostering high trust Build positive relationships Restorative environment Compliment each others strengths Foster learning Role model a learning attitude Opportunities to dialogue and build networks Listening to leverage collective intelligence Redesign social architecture Take time to consult, get buy in and find the best solution Generate feedback It is no longer sufficient to have one person learning for the organisation... Its just not possible any longer to figure it out from the top, and have everyone else following the order of the grand strategist. (Senge , 2002) 57www.ideacreation.org

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41. When I first came into this leadership role I got together a team of senior staff and re-wrote all the staff procedure manuals. I started with an idea that wed perhaps do it in a month. Then I tried to take this to the meeting and present it to (the staff) and it just ended up in this shitfight basically . . . What about this?, Youve forgotten about that?, blah, blah, blah. It was a total disaster, and one of the absolute low points of my time here. But it made me realise that unless I got these people to come with me I was wasting my bloody time. 59

42. We ended up having to go back to the drawing board and eventually we figured out this process which is still here this year, well its completely fundamental now. Its called OPG (Operational Policy Groups) where you take a subset of people to work on developing a process and then anyone whos not present, you give them the right to submit. 60

43. Even though it took 12 months longer than I thought, we got a result that actually stuck. We didnt come up with a nice new book that no one used, which is very very common. We got two things out of it, we got the best answers, these great rules that were user friendly, generally easy to follow, concise, nothing that wasnt a rule, didnt make it in here. So we got a great answer, a great result, and we got really good buy-in too. 61

44. Yeah, that was really an epiphany around the issue for me, and I guess its characterised my leadership style ever since. I learnt that if things are really important, especially in an organisation like this, where we have staff who actually have knowledge, skill, experience and passion we have to include them in the process (L 21). 62

45. Who has a voice in our organisation? What mechanisms can we create to foster interaction and shared learning? 63www.ideacreation.org

46. Traditional organisations require management systems that control peoples behaviour, learning organisations invest in improving the quality of thinking, the capacity for reflection and team learning, and the ability to develop shared visions and shared understandings of complex issues (Senge, 2002) Layer 3: Distribute power and decentralise control decentralised control Share journey share leadership We are all leaders Break down hierarchy Share responsibility and accountability bit by bit Create ownership and empowerment Delegate and let go Foster interdependance Master the process not the content 64www.ideacreation.org

47. A framework for empowerment Extrinsic motivation intrinsic motivation external locus of control internal locus of control control empowerment Strict and complete external control no external control Responsibility on leader responsibility shared responsibility on participant I decide we decide you decide less choice more choice Dependence interdependence independence Jansen 2005

48. High Supportive & Low Directive Behaviour High Supportive & High Directive Behaviour (High) (Low) (Low) (High)DIRECTIVE BEHAVIOUR SUPPORTIVEBEHAVIOUR High Supportive & High Directive Behaviour Low Supportive & High Directive Behaviour Low Supportive & Low Directive Behaviour Situational Leadership 66

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50. Go to the people, Live with them, Learn from them, Love them, Start with what they know, Build with what they have, But with the best leaders, When the work is done, The task accomplished, The people will say, We have done it ourselves Chinese Philosopher Lao Tsu 68www.ideacreation.org

51. Who makes the decisions? How could power be shared more effectively? 69www.ideacreation.org

52. 4) Explore and Articulate Shared Values 70 We need to be culturally tight and managerially loose. Order and design are not externally imposed but emerge as a result of the combination of individual freedom and shared core values Getting on the same page Explore individual values and negotiate organisational values to fit Role model values in leadership behaviour Reconnect all staff with personal moral purpose Establish benchmark of needs Create clarity around shared vision Leave space for emergent outcomes

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54. In what way does our organisation live out shared core values and vision? 73www.ideacreation.org

55. Shifting toxic culture to ownership culture Chris Jansen University of Canterbury, New Zealand

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59. Engagement leads to peak performance Sample culture survey: Rate each question from 1 (low) to 5 (high) Add up total out of 25 1) I really care about the future of my organisation 2) I am proud to tell others that I work for this organisation 3) My organisation inspires me to do my best 4) I would recommend my organisation to a friend as a good place to work 5) I am willing to put in a great deal of effort and time beyond what is normally expected 78www.ideacreation.org Adapted from Gallop

60. Culture eats strategy for lunch

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62. employee first customer second Anand Pillai a healthy organisation is one in which all participants have a voice (Peck ,1988).

63. . . . Leaders vs leadership? Position of a leader vs action of leadership Hierarchies and Networks

64. 83 Mechanisms to assist with this, cross functional groups focus groups vertical teams multi disciplinary teams / interdisciplinary teams design charrette - architecture Google days, IBM open chat, Agile development methodologies, scrum Operational process groups - OB You and I portal - talk to the CEO line and CEO to put question online Open office sessions Empowering team: co-constructed department meeting Think tanks Innovation page online surveys ??? Leveraging collective intelligence

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68. Commitment Charting A (Induction) Team Leaders Technology Board B (the D) Adapted from the ESD Toolkit v2.0 87www.thinkbeyond.co.nz

69. 88 Planning change processes Need and Vision Fine-tune and embed Roll out Scale up TrainingAdopt proven idea Pilot Team Steps are emergent Inquiry focussed on new solutions Cyclic process Clarify need and vision Assess responses and fine tune Scale upLaunch multiple experiments Foster collective intelligence Pilot www.ideacreation.org

70. Organisational change processes 1. establish urgency based on provable need/gap 2. form a powerful coalition or core team 3. develop a vision and operation plan 4. launch numerous small safe to fail pilots 5. communicate the vision and develop whole organisation approach 6. consolidate improvements by building capacity 7. widen awareness and support 8. celebrate and embed Based on Kotter 89www.ideacreation.org

71. Cunning inside out change strategies for middle leaders Start with small team of enthusiastic people Aligned purpose Genuine respect for each other and friendship Permission giving and support from senior leader Trial without organisational constraints and politics Document evidence Open to wider group of staff Keep gate keepers in the loop Voluntary involvement is key intrinsic motivation Connect with each staff members purpose Seek out and share success stories Show them colleagues implementing achievable initiatives Stick doggedly to values Garner publicity and profile for the success not the people Widen scope increase number of staff opting in Critical mass explore full cross programme implementation Build in sustainability

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75. What is success? To laugh often and much To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children To earn the appreciation of honest critics And endue the betrayal of false friends To appreciate beauty To find the best in others To leave the world a bit better Whether by a healthy child, a garden patch Or a redeemed social condition To know even one life has breathed easier Because you have lived This is to have succeeded RALPH WALDO EMERSON 94