Read a selection of your colleagues’ posts.
Respond to at least two colleagues by offering an additional strategy for trust and buy-in and for when staff refuse or push back during implementation of the change process. Explain how the strategies would have supported leadership in your colleagues’ experience. Be sure to support your response with reference to the Learning Resources, research, and/or your personal experiences.
Original Post Directions
Reversing the trend of dissatisfaction and disengagement must be at the heart of any serious reform effort. ”
Imagine you have just taken on the role as leader of an educational program in your specialization and have been told to implement a change process that is part of a district initiative. As a new leader, you have yet to establish trust with your colleagues, so that when you start to implement the initiative, you are surprised to get immediate push back from your colleagues. How might you work to shift your colleagues’ dissatisfaction and disengagement and support them in their roles as change agents? What leadership strategies would win the trust of your colleagues and help them see the merits of the initiative?
For this Discussion, you will analyze evidence-based strategies to establish stakeholder trust and buy-in for change and counteract resistance to change.
To prepare:
Review the assigned chapters in the Fullan (2016) text. Consider the difference between adopting an innovative program, the complexity of actually implementing it, and why stakeholders resist change.
Read the Gurley, Peters, & Collins (2015); Day, Gu, & Sammons (2016); Covey (2009); and Adams & Miskell (2016) articles. Think about the process of initiating and implementing change, the influence of leadership on change, and how to gain buy-in and trust from stakeholders throughout the change process.
Reflect on experiences you have had in your professional practice where staff were
resistant to a change in your specialization. What attempts were made by leadership to establish trust and buy-in for the change? What strategies were (or were not) used when staff members refused or pushed back during implementation? As a leader, what strategies would you have employed?
Research evidence-based strategies for establishing trust and buy-in from staff prior to implementing change and for supporting staff when they resist changes during implementation.
Post an explanation of the following:
Background information on an experience from your professional practice where staff were resisting a change in a program or practice in your specialization
At least two strategies you would have used to establish trust and buy-in from the staff prior to implementing the change. Provide a research-supported rationale for your selected strategies.
At least two strategies you would have employed when staff members refused or pushed back during the implementation of the change process. Provide a research-supported rationale for your selected strategies.
For this Discussion and all scholarly writing in this course and throughout your program, you must use APA style and provide reference citations.
Required Readings
Fullan, M. (2016). The new meaning of educational change (5th ed.). New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
Chapter 4, “Initiation, Implementation, and Continuation” (pp. 54–81)
Chapter 6, “The Teacher” (pp. 97–122)
Chapter 10, “The District Administrator” (pp. 177–208)
Gurley, D.K., Peters, G.B., & Collins, L. (2015). Mission, vision, values, and goals: An exploration of key organizational statements and daily practice in schoolsLinks to an external site.. Journal of Educational Change, 16(2), 217-242. doi:10.1007/s10833-014-9229-x
Day, C., Gu, Q, & Sammons, P. (2016). The impact of leadership on student outcomes: How successful school leaders use transformational and instructional strategies to make a differenceLinks to an external site.. Educational Administration Quarterly, 52(2), 221-258. doi:10.1177/0013161X15616863
Adams, C. M., & Miskell, R. C. (2016). Teacher trust in district administration: A promising link of inquiry.Links to an external site. Journal of Leadership for Effective and Equitable Organizations, 52(4), 1-32. doi: 10.1177/0013161X16652202
Covey, S. (2009). How the best leaders build trustLinks to an external site.. LeadershipNow. Retrieved from http://www.leadershipnow.com/CoveyOnTrust.html
Giancola, S. (2014). Evaluation matters: Getting the information you need from your evaluation.Links to an external site. U.S. Department of Education. https://www.cresp.udel.edu/publication/https-www-cresp-udel-edu-wp-content-uploads-2018-04-evaluation-matters-by-giancola-06-2014-pdf/
Note: This resource is an essential guide for the completion of the Course Project. Be sure to read it for your work in this module, and refer to it often as you complete your Course Project.
Giancola, S. P. (2021). Program evaluation: Embedding evaluation into program design and developmentLinks to an external site.. Sage Publications.
Peurach, D.J., Glazer, J.L, Winchell Lenhoff, S. (2016). The developmental evaluation of school improvement networks.Links to an external site. Educational Policy, 30(4), 606-648. doi:10.1177/0895904814557592
Required Media
Grand City Community
Go to the Grand City CommunityLinks to an external site. and click into City Hall to review the following for this module:
Walden University, LLC. (Producer). (2016b). Grand City education and demographic data files [PDF]. Baltimore, MD: Author.
– Fullan, 2016, p. 97
