Some management ideas you might want to consider

Jeff Edwards

• If you want to make minor, incremental changes and improvements, work on practices, behaviors or attitude. But if you want to make significant, quantum improvement, work on paradigms. S.Covey, 2005

Old Management

• Sees people as replaceable, expendable, and needing to constantly monitor.

• New management sees workers as stake-holders.

• The Industrial Age Worker vs. The Knowledge Worker – two different views.

• Voice means to have a stake in what is being done with and too you. To be able to take part in shaping your own care, to speak your mind, to do your best YOUR way. To be held accountable by your own actions, to be trusted to do what is right, to have values, to be treated with dignity and respect, and to pass this on to those around you.

Stephen Covey -

Cutting-edge Management Ideas Rather Than Supervision/Mental Health Ideas.

• The western world’s emphasis is on the negative side of life, as demonstrated by weather forecasts predicting a 30% chance of rain rather than a 70% chance of better weather. The field of mental health is a prime example of this mentality.

Edwards, J.K.

The Five Elements of Advanced Clinical Supervision

• Being able to see the glass as half full.

• Help your stakeholder co-visees develop personal agency (self-efficacy).

• Help your stakeholder co-visees begin the process of strength-based forethought.

• Help your stakeholder co-visees find and use their voice.

• Encourage your stakeholder co-visees to pass it on to others.

• The language of mental health is deficit based, the number of diagnostic categories continues to grow in numbers and social acceptance despite major criticisms. The language that has become common in mental health draws attention to people’s problems or inabilities, rather than their potential for growth and change.

• Gergen, K.J. (1991). The Saturated Self New York, NY: Basic Books

• Simply put -- at its most elemental and practical level -- leadership is communicating to people their worth and potential so clearly that they come to see it in themselves.  Period!

• Stephen R. Covey, (2005).The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

-- Booker T. Washington

The nobler sort of man emphasizes the good qualities in others, and does not accentuate the bad. The inferior does the reverse.       

-- Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese Philosopher

Postmodern ideas change the concepts of a problem focus

• Piaget – Glass half full or half empty

• Cubs coach Jim Fry and the movie

• Solution focused rather than problem focused

• Narrative – the person is not the problem, the problem is the problem.

• The best way to inspire people to a superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them.

• Harold S. Greneen, Former Chairman of ITT

• I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”

--Charles M. Schwab

• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.-- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

• I praise loudly; I blame softly.

-- Catherine the Second (1729-1796) Russian Empress

• Never tell people how to do things.  Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

-- General George S. Patton

• I do not believe that you should devote overly much effort to correcting your weaknesses. Rather, I believe that the highest success in living and the deepest emotional satisfaction comes from building and using your signature strengths. Martin Seligman, 2002.

• Finding and using Voice.

• Confidence on the outside begins by living with integrity on the inside.

-- Brian Tracy

Stephen Covey - Voice

• Being effective as individuals and organizations is no longer optional. We are called to reach beyond to greatness.

• Fulfillment

• Passionate execution

• Significant contribution

VoiceCovey, 2005

• The 8th habit is to Find Your Own Voice and Inspire others to Find Theirs.

Talent

Need

Conscience

Passion

Why Voice?

• People who succeed have principles - values that provide an internal compass that directs their forethought and evaluation of their work.

Why?• Change the old paradigm to fit the new age.• We live in an age of the knowledge worker, where

intellectual capital is supreme. • Quality knowledge is so valuable that unleashing

its potential offers organizations an extraordinary opportunity for value creation.

• Our greatest financial investment is the knowledge worker. Consider what has been invested in the knowledge workers in your organization.

• S. Covey, 2005

References

• Bandura, A. (2001). Social Cognitive Theory: And Agentic Perspective. Annual Review of Psychology, 52:1-26. @ http://www.AnnualReviews.org

• Covey, S.R. (2004). The 8th Habit. From Effectiveness to Greatness. New York, NY: Free Press.

• Edwards, J. K., & Chen, M.W. (1999). Strength-Based Supervision: Frameworks, Current Practice, and Future Directions. A Wu-wei Method. The Family Journal, 7: 349

- 357. • Edwards, J.K., & Pyskoty, C. (2004). Clinical Training Needs of Illinois Counselors:

Survey of Internship Sites, ICA Journal of Counseling.• Larson, L. M. & Daniels, J.A. (1998). The Counseling Psychologist. 26, 179-218. • Seligman, M. ( ). Authentic Happiness