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South Carolina: First Steps Every Child Ready 2020–2025 Strategic Plan
Used with permission: South Carolina First Steps. (2020). Every Child Ready 2020–2025 Strategic Plan. https://www.scfirststeps.org/ media/itrluenr/strategic-plan-2020-2025.pdf
Alaska
Early Childhood Alaska:…
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- Early Childhood Program Design and Management
- New Programs
- Program Design
- Program Startup
- Program Planning
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Create a Trustworthy Process
Working on adaptive challenges takes time and process. One of the key characteristics of an effective process is to ensure it is a trustworthy process. Here are a few tips to creating a trustworthy process.
Tips for creating a trustworthy process :[8]
Design the…
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- Early Childhood Program Design and Management
- Leadership and Coordination
- CCDF Governance and Leadership
- Professional Development
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Work Across Factions
Working across factions means being willing to allow your thought processes to hold two opposing ideas in your mind at the same time without panicking. This is about avoiding oversimplifications and thinking in trade-offs. When you allow time for working with opposing ideas…
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- Early Childhood Program Design and Management
- Leadership and Coordination
- CCDF Governance and Leadership
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Start Where They Are
In the problem-solving process, you will inevitably be asking others to change. Everyone responds to change differently. It is helpful to be proactive in the process by tapping the brain trust of the various voices at the table. Seek to learn and understand people’s values and…
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- Early Childhood Program Design and Management
- Leadership and Coordination
- CCDF Governance and Leadership
- Professional Development
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Engage Unusual Voices
Every issue or challenge has explicit elements, things you can see, as well as implicit parts, those that are invisible to you that still impact the situation. Part of your job is to surface the hidden elements so that you are working on the whole problem, not just the parts…
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- Early Childhood Program Design and Management
- Leadership and Coordination
- CCDF Governance and Leadership
- Professional Development
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This adaptive leadership competency pushes you to adopt a shared leadership approach as you address your challenge. Sharing leadership means you must reimagine how power is distributed so that communities most impacted are at the center of the work. Expand the circle of individuals who need to be…
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- Leadership and Coordination
- CCDF Governance and Leadership
- Professional Development
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Take Care of Yourself
Every day, you make choices and strengthen habits that either deplete or develop your energy. The more energy-generating habits you create, the greater your ability to be present with and for your leadership behavior. Reflect on your daily and weekly habits. How do your…
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- Early Childhood Program Design and Management
- Leadership and Coordination
- CCDF Governance and Leadership
- Professional Development
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Experiment Beyond Your Comfort Zone
“To make progress on your leadership challenge, you sometimes have to intervene in ways, or take on roles, that feel uncomfortable or inconsistent with how you see yourself or how you want to be seen.”.[6] When you engage in new experiences you have the…
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- Early Childhood Program Design and Management
- Leadership and Coordination
- CCDF Governance and Leadership
- Professional Development
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Know the Story Others Tell About You
How you perceive yourself is one version of your story. But that isn’t necessarily the story your co-workers or partners would tell. How are you understood? What is your formal authority? What is your informal authority? Are you considered an expert on certain…
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Topic/Subtopic:
- Early Childhood Program Design and Management
- Leadership and Coordination
- CCDF Governance and Leadership
- Professional Development
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Choose Among Competing Values
You are a complex human being with competing values and commitments that vie for your time and attention every day. Consider the push and pull between efficiency and inclusiveness or the notion of being liked and having to make the tough decisions based on hard…
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Topic/Subtopic:
- Early Childhood Program Design and Management
- Leadership and Coordination
- CCDF Governance and Leadership
- Professional Development
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