Reclaim your profession

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Reclaim your professionReclaim your POWER!
The Oklahoma Education Association
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Session One

• Connecting Self-Interest to Levels of Power

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The pressures on families
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The Levels of Power

• CORPORATE

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The Levels of Power

• BUREAUCRACY

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The Levels of Power

• GOVERNMENT,
• POLITICS,
• POLITICIANS

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The Levels of Power

• LAWYERS
• AND
• EXPERTS

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The Levels of Power

• The Media

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The Levels of Power

• UNIONS,
• CONGREGATIONS
• SCHOOLS

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The Levels of Power

• CITIZENS,
• FAMILIES
• AND
• COMMUNITIES

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The Levels of Power

• POWER
• RECOGNIZES
• POWER!

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Minimum requirements for power

• Must have at least 2 participants
• Must have a PLAN!

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However

• Power without Love is Brutality.
• And Love without Power is Sentimentality.

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FOLLOW THE ...THE STORY OF SANDI KRESS

• The Godfather of High-stakes Testing

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Self-interest Latin for interessethe
interests among, between

• The continuum of self-interest
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• Selfish.Self-Interest..Selfless
• All self, Balance No self,
• no others all others
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The continuum of consent

• The continuum of consent
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If we dont know our own self-interests, we will
be MANIPULATED!
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Session Two

• Relational Power and the Power of One on One
  Conversations

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RELATIONSHIPS Private vs. Public
PRIVATE Family Friends Who? PUBLIC Coworkers Neighbors Doctor PRIVATE Comfort Security Looks for? PUBLIC Mask person, but not fake
Love Intimacy Why? Services Recognition Power Closed Boundaries How are relationships conducted? Open Above-board
Trust Attraction Kinship Based upon? More choice calculation Informal How is business conducted? Formal Agenda
Blood Permanency What holds them together? Self-interest Harmony Atmosphere? Tensionforces clarification
Loyalty Ruled by? Accountability Liked, loved Response? Respect
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Two types of power

• Relational
• Power with
• Others seen as potential leaders
• Belief in mentoring
• Exponential powerpower grows through others

• Unilateral
• Top down
• Rugged individual
• Others exist to carry out their will
• Delegating
• Power is a zero-sum gametheres only so much
  power to go around

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Relational Best Practices

• The One to One
• Relational Meeting
• Always face to face
• Intentional
• 30 minutes
• Purpose? To explore the possibility of a
  relationshipto determine if you want a second
  meeting with this person!

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One to One Relational Meetings
ARE NOT ARE
About task About relationship
Talk Listening
Selling Offer of power
Polite Agitational
Interview Personal underpinnings for public action
Stereotypes Curiosity
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THE IRON RULE

• AGITATION
• VS.
• IRRITATION

• NEVER
• EVER
• DO ANYTHING FOR ANYONE
• THAT HE OR SHE CAN DO
• FOR HIM OR HERSELF!

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How do you spot an organizer?Qualities to look
for

• Anger
• To the Greeks, meekness meant appropriate anger
  at the appropriate time. They positioned
  meekness between two other emotions on a
  continuum
• Rage--------meekness--------apathy

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Other qualities to look for

• Humor
• Imagination
• Curiosity
• The Integrated Schizoid
• Acceptance of terminality
• Ego

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What does organizing look like?

• General Organizing Actions

• Association Actions

• Develop association leaders
• Move an agenda
• Membership engagement
• Improving teaching and learning conditions
• Building membership

• Develop leaders
• Move an agenda
• Deepen member involvement
• Raise

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Time management

• 1) Be clear about the missionwhat is most
  important? What are we trying to make happen?
• 2) Be strategic!
• What can I do now that positions me for the
  future? This draws on imagination, creativity
• Avoid one size fits all thinkinglocal context
  matters
• Refusal to accept a changing world
• Seeing life as one-dimensionalall things are
  good or everything is bad
• 3) Reflection

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The cycle of reflection

• We run around as a ball of undigested
  happenings.
• Saul Alinsky

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Theres power in reflection!

• What gets in the way?

• What helps?

• Readingspecific and targeted
• Writing
• Tension
• Training
• Mentoring
• Quiet time
• Sleep

• Time
• Fear
• Lack of humor
• Arrogance
• Lack of ego
• Technology
• Fatigue

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Make a budget

• Are we filling our calendars with tasks,
  operations, or opportunities? Most of us work
  90 operations, 10 opportunities! Strive for
  50/50!

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So now we know

• Theres no shame in self interest
• Theres unselfishness in self-interest
• We are currently at the BOTTOM of the levels of
  power
• Power depends upon relationships
• Power depends upon consent
• Reflection is vital

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Thank you for your time and attention!