This document outlines an agenda for a turnaround strategy workshop at Reigerpark Schools. The workshop will cover qualities of top achievers, lessons from successful people, defining success, profiles of successful individuals, and moving from success to peace. It will also discuss school readiness components including general management, participatory management, communication, and human relations. Participants will evaluate the school's status in these areas and identify goals for improvement. The workshop aims to help educators achieve their potential and define success on their own terms.

1. Turn-Around Strategy Workshop
Reigerpark Schools
Introductory Session
Qualities of a true Top
Achiever
Dr Muavia Gallie (PhD) 1
Content
• Introduction
• Succeed on your own terms;
- Knowing where your are going and defining
success (Video clip - 40 sec.);
- Profiles of those who have succeeded on their
own terms;
- Lessons in success: What they discovered
about themselves along the way
• Video clip - Reedemer (4 min);
• Moving from Success to Peace;
• Conclusion
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2. Introduction
• Who am I?
• Who are you?
• Workshop time:
- Today 14h00 – 17h00;
- Tomorrow 09h00 – 16h00;
• Ground-rules (discipline);
• Your expectations.
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Introduction
• Classroom teacher, HoD, Principal of a secondary
school - going on in schools;
• Taught in ‘township’ - 15 years;
• Schooled in Worcester - rural life;
• Prov. & Nat. professional development officer -
professional needs of teachers;
• Senior member of SADTU for 10 years - unionism;
• Director of SACE for 7 years - ethics and
professional development of the profession;
• Part- and full-time lecturer at UWC, Wits & UP -
theoretical and practical debate;
• Policy making process for 15 years - policy terrain.
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3. Herb Greenberg and Patrick Sweeney
Succeed on your own terms -
Lessons from top achievers
around the world on developing
your unique potential
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Knowing where you are going
and defining success
1. You have got to know where you
are, to know where you are
going;
2. First you have to define success;
3. Tapping into our defining qualities
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4. Profiles of those who have
succeeded on their own terms
• Perseverance; • Patience;
• Goal-oriented; • Persuasiveness;
• Self-awareness; • Confidence;
• Willingness to take risk; • Passion;
• Thriving on pressure; • Integrity;
• Optimism; • Trust;
• Empathy;
• Having fun;
• Competitiveness;
• Being open;
• Courage;
• Creativity; 7
Lessons in Success: What they discovered
about themselves along the way
1. Focus on what you have rather than what you don’t have;
2. Always play like you are trying out for the team;
3. Be who you are right now;
4. Pursue something that is completely and totally interesting to you;
5. Embrace your roots;
6. Customise yourself;
7. Respond from the heart when disaster strikes;
8. Understand your past so that you can create your future;
9. Be true to your conviction;
10. Look in the mirror and be able to say, “I did the right thing”;
11. Know what you stand for;
12. Don’t let others define you;
13. Reinvent yourself;
14. Accept your own challenges.
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5. Quick Survey
Please answer each of the following statements using the following rating scale:
1 = Strongly Disagree; 2 = Disagree; 3 = Agree; 4 = Strongly Agree
No. Statement Rating
1. This school is a pretty good place to work.
2. I can get ahead in this school if I make the effort.
3. My salary is in line with my contribution to education.
4. Promotion in this school is handled fairly.
5. I understand the different changes taking place in the school.
6. My job makes the best use of my ability.
7. My workload is challenging but not burdensome.
8. I have trust and confidence in my senior.
9. I feel free to tell my senior what I think.
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10. I know what my senior expects of me.
16 Primary Personality Traits
1. Reserved Outgoing
2. Less intelligent More intelligent
3. Affected by feelings Emotionally stable
4. Submissive Dominant
5. Serious Happy-go-lucky
6. Expedient Conscientious
7. Nervous Venturesome
8. Tough-minded Sensitive
9. Trusting Suspicious
10. Practical Imaginative
11. Forthright Shrewd
12. Self-assured Apprehensive
13. Conservative Experimenting
14. Group-dependent Self-sufficient
15. Uncontrolled Controlled
16. Relaxed Tense 10
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6. Identify the role you play in the school, as depicted
by these characters.
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It is not the The future is a “To exist is
matter of choice, not
sails but the chance. You are where
to change,
unseen wind you are because of
decisions you took - or
and to
that moves didn’t take - sometime
in the past. The shape
change is to
the ship. of tomorrowdepends mature.”
entirely on how you
act, right now! Henri Bergson
Muavia Gallie - FDE: Managing Change - 0824645022 - UWC - Slide 2. 4
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“The significant “ Competence “Anyone can
is linked to time and
problems we face
cannot be solved
situation. If the situation
changes, the criteria for
hold the
at the same level competence also change,
so it is possible that
helm while
of thinking we organisations which the sea is
used when we were competent can very
created them.”
quickly become
incompetent.”
calm.”
Albert Einstein
Swieringa & Wierdsma - 12 de Geus
A.P.
“Becoming a Learning Organisation”
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7. Where are we going?
Vision
What are we going
to do? Mission
What is important
around here? Values
What do we
want to achieve, Goals and
by when and at Objectives
what cost?
How will we
Action Plans
reach our
&
objectives?
Commitment and Pressure 13
Muavia Gallie - FDE: Managing Change - 0824645022 - UWC - Slide 2. 12
Moving from Success to Peace
• PERMIT yourself to acknowledge that some of our old beliefs
about who we are (and others) might not be true;
• EXPLORE the possibility that there is something about ourselves
(and others) that we don’t fully understand, of which could change
everything;
• ANNOUNCE that we are willing for new understandings of
ourselves (and others) that could produce new possibilities;
• COURAGEOUSLY examine these new understandings and allow
these new truths and knowledge to enlarge our lives;
• EXPRESS our lives as a demonstration of our deepest, highest
self, rather than denying them. 14
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8. Memories ties
you to your past.
Imagination point
you to the future.
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Structure of the Workshop
Eight School Readiness
Components
1. General School 1. Attendance (T & L)
Management 2. Teacher information
2. Participatory 3. Learner information
Management 4. Annual planning
3. Communication 5. Timetabling
4. Human Relations 6. Teaching schedules
7. Organogram
8. Teaching and Learning
support materials 16
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9. School Readiness 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Components
1. General school
management
2. Participatory
management
3. Communication
4. Human relations
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SRC 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1. General school ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖
management
2. Participatory ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖
management
3. Communication ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖
4. Human relations ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖ ✖
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