How can you use the working genius model to enhance school improvement?

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Use the working genius model to enhance school improvement! This model by Patrick Lenicioni is composed of 6 components;

1. Wonder: Identify a problem or a potential growth area.
2. Invention: Invent solutions to the problem or the potential growth area.
3. Discernment: Determine the viability of solutions and how to improve them.
4. Galvanizing: Get people geared up to address the problem/growth area by using the solution.
5. Enablement: Offer help.
6. Tenacity: Get it done.

To learn more, check out the following video:

How can you use the working genius model to enhance school improvement? What comes to mind for me includes the following:

(1) Be sure to galvanize others. It’s not enough to invent a solution and then use it. You need to galvanize people—get them energized, inspired, and moving! (Lack of galvanization can result in people being uninterested, uninspired, and unengaged. Not good.)

You need to galvanize people before the work starts, and you need to regularly galvanize them as they work. One way to do this is to remind them of the purpose of improvement and how addressing this problem/growth area will help others flourish.

(2) Assess your Steering Committee/Leadership Team in terms of working geniuses to ensure you have a good mix. Read this helpful article, assess the geniuses represented on your team, and determine next steps.

(3) As school improvement coordinator, assess your own working geniuses, how they fit with your school’s improvement efforts, and determine next steps. For example, to coordinate efforts to implement the school improvement plan, you need Tenacity. If Tenacity is not one of your working geniuses, you’re going to need to find a way to adapt.

(4) Use Wonder, Invention, and Discernment to review and enhance your improvement engine (purpose, perspective, process, plan, and practices). Then use Galvanizing, Enablement, and Tenacity to make revisions and implement those revisions.

Here are some related resources:

• What process does your team use to do something new?
• What steps have you taken in the past 12 months that actually helped you and your international Christian school colleagues do school improvement better?
• International Christian school leaders, to what extent do you overcommunicate what, how, and why regarding school improvement?
• The accreditation visit is finished—what do you & your colleagues need to do before implementing your school’s updated improvement plan?
• At your international Christian school, what does and doesn’t help you and your colleagues improve?

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Bottom line: Enhance school improvement! Using the working genius model can help.

Get flourishing!

Michael