Active Learning Consultants, Richard Bernato Ed.D.

HIGH INVOLVEMENT COMPONENT: POWER

the extent to which the group or members of the group have real authority to plan, change, decide.

Issues of power are frequently the reason why High Involvement / Shared Planning groups fail. "Turf” problems and failure to take ownership because authority lines were not delineated clearly from the outset will lead to disillusionment and failure.

Effective Schools and organizations are characterized as having clear charges to the group and with principals or executives willing to disperse their authority to others in the group within the appropriate context. Truly effective organizations go steps further by routinely forming ad hoc groups with temporary authority to investigate, problem solve, and recommend actions to the whole.

Active Learning Consultants can help your organization analyze itself for power elements and make recommendations to make the power element work within the bigger context of Organizational - Structure factors that energize your organization.

For more information, contact us at richber1@optonline.net