Thursday 27 September 2012
Respect
Whilst tidying up my study the other day, I came across notes of a staff development exercise I conducted at my school in the nineties in an attempt to improve cooperation and innovation.
They were great people, but most had been doing the same job for years (a common phenomenon in Toowoomba) and were a bit set in their ways.
Given the rate of change at the time, this had to change. How successful I was is difficult to judge in hindsight, but it was a useful exercise.
One of the tools we used was the Australian National Schools Network (ANSN) norms. These are essentially a set of principles to be used when working together to plan and solve problems.
It occurs to me that these same principles could be used in the blogosphere.
They are -
1. Adopt a sense of responsibility in and for the group
2. Attend to others and listen
3. Cooperate in good faith
4. Aim for consensus decision making
5. Confront problems respectfully
6. Allow and give no putdowns
7. Accept where others are at
8. Suspend judgements
Or perhaps in federal parliament?
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2 comments:
No putdowns?
You silly old bugger!
The protocols don't apply to veterans........
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