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An investment in improving the quality of leadership and the culture is a cost effective short and long term strategy for improving productivity.
Because of the economy and the decrease in financial support for public education, many public schools have no choice but to reduce staff in order to balance their budgets. Investing in the development of leaders has always been important but it is especially important when leaders are expected to do more with less.
An investment in the human side of the organization is important because it continues to pay dividends year after year. An investment in the Organizational Health improvement process will save money by:
- Using human resources more efficiently and effectively,
- Improving the alignment of systems and subsystems,
- Reducing cost of substitutes by creating a culture where individuals hold themselves and others accountable, and
- Minimizing the need to replace quality employees who leave because of a poor working environment.
Furthermore, our diagnostic and development services will improve productivity by:
- Establishing a research-based quality assurance and quality control strategy for the superintendent and Board of Education or a CEO and the Board of Directors.
- Reinforcing and placing a premium on the application of existing and new knowledge by assessing and monitoring the impact of leadership initiatives.
- Changing the role of the supervisor from a problem identifier to a coach and supporter.
- Providing a systems perspective that identifies patterns that permeate the system that need to be reinforced and replicated as well as those patterns that need to be modified.
- Providing reliable and valid formative data regarding the effectiveness of each administrative unit and the impact the leader is having on the dimensions of Organizational Health.
- Identifying those best practices that need to be replicated by other leaders and utilizing the data to leverage needed changes in other units and subunits, and
- Providing a data-based and cost effective strategy for improving results or the bottom line. In school systems, the statistically significant correlation between Organizational Health data and student achievement data validates our diagnostic and development strategies as cost effective processes for transforming schools.
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