If You
Have a Mission Statement, Use It!
While visiting a
classroom a few weeks ago, I saw that
the teacher had the Class Mission
statement posted on the wall, as
recommended.
I asked him, how often
he referred to it and he said,
“To be honest, I don’t.”
He went on to explain that a few
students would occasionally look at it.
I asked about the process that he
used to create the Mission Statement.
He said that he had collected
ideas from 3 or 4 classes in order to
compile the information into one common
mission.
This scenario
reminded me that mission statements are
like data collection.
If you are going to collect data
– use it!
Or as my colleague Don Bryant
likes to say, “If you collect data and
don’t use it, you just annoy people.”
With the end of
the first quarter approaching it’s a
great time for the students to reflect.
Here are a few
questions you might want to ask – select
a few questions from the list.
-
How
often did you look at the Mission
Statement?
-
Did
you find it useful?
-
Are
there parts of the M.S. that are
helpful for you?
-
Are
there any parts you don’t agree
with?
-
Are
there things you would like to add
or clarify?
-
How
closely did your behavior match the
mission statement?
-
If it
did not match how would it be
helpful if your behavior did match?
With the
information you have collected you can
now assess the effectivness of the
current mission statemtent, and the
value of changing for the next qurter.
©
2011 Robert G. Hoglund / Bob Hoglund,
Inc.
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