1. SQ Consultants – Oct. 3, 2008 Making Use of Michael Fullan’s Book, “Six Secrets of Change”

2. Love Your Employees Attend to and value all stakeholders (balance) pg. 23, 26, 30-1 Attending to the conditions to succeed pg. 25 –Find meaning –Skill development –Personal satisfaction in contributing toward goals Motivation pg. 33-4, 36-7 –Fair treatment –Enabling achievement –Camaraderie –Meaningful work –Well led

3. Connect Peers with Purpose Peer interaction to influence the spread of effective practices Purpose provides the target Conditions (pg. 45) –Values of the organization, individuals, and groups mesh –Information/knowledge about practices are shared –Monitoring ineffective actions while identifying effective practices Trust the process and the people in it (pg. 52)

4. Capacity Building Prevails (“capacity”, “ability”, “potential”) Competencies, resources, motivation toward the purpose (pg. 57) Possessing (having) and developing (building) Non-judgmentalism (which is heavily nuanced) while focused on improvement (pg. 58-9) An inverse relationship exists between judgmentalism and capacity building

5. Learning is the Work Relationship between Consistency and Innovation and integrating them (pg. 75-6) Collaboration is the pursuit of precision not prescription (pg. 82) Depth of understanding among “school” employees regarding their work (pg. 79,89) Share the learning

6. Transparency Rules Helps develop trust Open about: –Analyzing strategic results (pg.97) –Examining practices –Reflecting on beliefs –Engaging with good (effective) help For improvement and accountability (pg.101)

7. Systems Learn Live the synergistic nature of the first five secrets Add integrative thinking to the mix Develop many leaders throughout the system who work in concert Increase the probability of success but understand your success cannot be guaranteed Increase capacity to think systemically