Educational Leadership ConsultingEducational Leadership ConsultingEducational Leadership Consulting is your key to creating an Attitude First program in your school. If you want to put attitude before academics in your school, then the main obstacle is our unconscious assumptions. The challenge is exposing those assumptions and evaluating whether they serve your school's commitment to an attitude first education. The change process is primarily about shining the lights of attention and intention on the everyday actions that shape the real decisions that are supposed to facilitate education, teaching and learning. Merely delivering knowledge, skills, and information is not adequate to this task. Attitutor Services will facilitate community dialogues that lead to shared understandings and mutually empowering decisions that support everyone to be good human beings in the context of your school organization. Attitutor Services is uniquely positioned to help you with this transition. There are two critical distinctions that Attitutor Services Founder, Don Berg, has articulated that make this service both powerful and distinctive. First, he has proposed a new definition of education as the cultivation of people who are 1) able to perceive accurately, 2) think clearly, 3) act effectively on self-selected goals and aspirations, and 4) are consistently engaged in a deliberate practice of cognitive cartography. This definition of education provides the foundation for understanding attitude and how attitude shapes the quality of our lives. I invite you to click here to read more about my definition of education. The second distinction is about establishing clear boundaries between the practices of leadership and management. Management is about the meeting of organizational needs and manipulating the individuals that make up the organization to do what needs to be done. Leadership, on the other hand, is about aligning the context of the organization to simultaneously meet as many levels of needs as possible (biological, psychological, organizational, societal, and ecological) and create an organizational context in which individuals identify with the organization such that the goals and aspirations they choose to pursue are consistent with the organization and it's culture. Click here to read more about the leadership part of educational leadership consulting. The specialty of Attitutor Services is Educational Leadership Consulting, not School Management Consulting. The expertise you need to put attitude first is the systematic perspective that Attitutor Services Founder, Don Berg, has been studying for 15 years. No one else can provide Educational Leadership Consulting for you because everyone else is just a management consultant. Your next question should be how to ensure that your investment in Educational Leadership Consulting Services provides measurable evidence of benefit to your school. Before you put up your school's money you want to know how we will specify the results that will be achieved to justify your investment decision. Consider that the benefits will be both short and long term. In the short term Attitutor Services will bring together a broad cross section of school stakeholders in discussions about what kind of philosophy is appropriate. At several points in those discussions there will be choice points at which the continued retention of Attitutor Services will be at stake. Even if the community chooses to discontinue the contract with Attitutor Services, the school will benefit from the increased engagement of stakeholders in actively participating in deciding the fate of the school. In the long term, if the school community chooses to implement an Attitude First Plan then the community will have begun a transition that will give students a better foundation for high quality of life regardless of whatever fate has in store for them, for our society, or for our planet. Enjoy, Don Berg, Attitutor Services |
