1. Focus on the direction.
1.1. Creating an organizational culture
1.2. Working with others to support, encourage, or require high-quality performance
1.3. Using a vision, mission, and strategic plan to make decisions and inform actions
1.1. Creating an organizational culture
- Developing positive and productive relationships with all stakeholders
- Facilitating conversations among all stakeholders
- Encouraging and modeling conversations and actions that build trust and support diversity
- Creating a shared culture of caring, communication, and collaboration
1.2. Working with others to support, encourage, or require high-quality performance
- Working with others to set expectations that promote high levels of performance in every area
- Ensuring that everyone has strategic and actionable short-term and long-term improvement goals
- Establishing follow-up processes to monitor implementation of expectations and goals
- Providing feedback, direction, and support to strengthen performance
1.3. Using a vision, mission, and strategic plan to make decisions and inform actions
- Collaborating with others to develop a mission, vision, and strategic plan that reflect the beliefs, values, ethics, and focus of the organization
- Ensuring that current and future practices are consistent with the vision and mission and are based on the strategic plan
- Engaging in ongoing discussions and investigations, looking outside the norm for more effective ways of integrating the mission, vision, and strategic plan
- Routinely redirecting or reframing collegial conversations about vision and mission to the direction of the organization
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