HR for education - Making great decisions

Browne Jacobson
HR for Education
October 2018
Welcome!
Making Great
Decisions
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leadershipmatters.org.uk

What’s going on here?
Power of habit Peer influence Leader focus
H P F
leadershipmatters.org.uk andybuck.org.uk

Developing habit and the brain

LM combined model
Personal qualities Your situation
Leadership actions Leadership approach
Culture Climate
Discretionary effort
Results
Source: Buck

Top kinds of leadership behaviours
Source: McKinsey

Thinking fast and slow
Source: Daniel Kahnman

Influences on your decision-making process
Personal qualities Your situation
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How you tend
decide
(LM Persona)
to Time available
The school’s values
What the evidence
suggests will work
The risks you can
afford to take
Biases of others
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Your
Your
risk
Your
own values
üattitude to
ü üown bias
Source: Buck

Who are you deciding for?

So in what situations does bias happen?
When there is lots of information
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We notice or think of memorable items
We notice when things have changed
Remember the things we like
When there isn’t much information
ü We create patterns or simplify even when there is
little data
We fill in the gaps with our stereotypes
We tend to focus on the things we know about or
like more
ü
ü
When we need to act fast
ü
ü
Favour things that we do can straight away
Better the devil we know
Source: Adapted from Benson

So what can you do?
Situation
Temptations
Options
Plan
Source: Buck

STOP
Situation
Temptations
Options
Plan
Source: Buck

Ask first

Five whys
Source: Toyoda

Common biases
ü
ü
Anchoring - relying on a past reference
Available heuristic – affected by what is more
memorable
Endowment – Likely to prefer what you
already have or already do
Framing – Influenced by way info is presented
ü
ü
ü Group think - Conforming to opinions held
a group
Confirmation bias – when new info agrees
with what you already think
Stereotyping - based on pre-conceptions
associated with particular groups
by
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Logic -v- intuition

Simple brainstorm
What else?
Source: Buck

Simple checklist
PROs CONs
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ü
ü
ü
ü
ü
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How easy?
Cost?
Buy-in?
Time?
Staff?
Pupils?
Parents?
Outcomes?
Source: Buck

When it is change or no change
THE STATUS QUO THE CHANGE
Negatives
of the current
situation
Positives
of making
the change
FOR
THE
CHANGE
Positives
of not making
the change
Negatives
of making the
change
AGAINST
THE
CHANGE
Source: Buck

Appointing a teacher
Source: Buck
Option Values
match
Subject
knowledge
Teaching
skills
Care for and
rapport
with pupils
Desire to
join us in
particular
Willingness
to learn
and grow
Total
Sarah 4 3 12 3 3 9 3 2 6 4 2 8 2 1 2 4 3 12 49
Rene
Mica
John
Sam

Quick to-do list
Source: Buck

The process of change
DELIVER
ENGAGE
FUTURE
Source: Kotter

Dimensions of change
Vision Skills Incentives Resources Action Plans Success
Skills Incentives Resources Action Plans Confusion
Vision Incentives Resources Action Plans Anxiety
Vision Skills Resources Action Plans Slow Change
Vision Skills Incentives Action Plans Frustration
Vision Skills Incentives Resources False Starts
Source: Knoster, Thousand and Villa

Planning checklist
Action When Notes
Be clear why change needed – get
people wanting change
Get a small group working on it and
review the evidence of what works
Create a draft vision and proposal
Test it out with people
Make sure everything is in place
(especially skills and time to do it)
Launch
Ensure quick wins
Get real-time feedback
Challenge those not adopting
Build into standard routines for
planning and evaluation

STOP stands for…?
Situation
Temptations
Options
Plan
Source: Buck

Book summary
Access
here

As we draw to close…
Although it may be true
that leaders have a
multitude of practical
tasks, they have one
that outweighs all the
others: to care for
spirit
the
Harrison Owen

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