Partners in Mission
124 Sycamore Drive
Westwood, MA 02090
781.710.0242
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School Administration and Leadership ConsultingPartners in Mission, based upon its consulting work with more than 100 Catholic schools and organizations knows how important leadership and effective administration is for the advancement of the mission and important work of your school.
Key to our success in helping you is the “hands-on” experience of members of our team who are highly regarded Head of School or President of Catholic Schools at schools similar to yours. Among our Partners we also count leaders who combine deep experience in high-level leadership and executive roles at some of America’s best corporation with dozens of years of service to Catholic education in leadership and board governance roles.
Partners in Mission blends the best of Catholic School administrative leadership experience with the practical leadership lessons of excellent organizations in corporate America – and grounds them both in programs steeped in our rich Catholic faith, and carefully crafted to provide you with the real ideas and solutions you need to deal effectively with administrative and leadership issues. These services encompass both school leadership development as well as leadership development for your Board of Directors, Alumni Association, and Parent Boards.
- Workforce Excellence for Catholic Education
Partners in Mission’s Workforce Excellence consulting services consists
of an initial comprehensive assessment with specific recommendations
for focused, multi-year, planned efforts on several “fronts” designed
for dramatic improvement, even for schools currently enjoying excellent
performance. Read More
- Renewing and Strengthening Catholic Identity with Workforce Excellence
The identity of our Catholic schools has become a flash point for many
school communities, parishes and dioceses. Partners in Mission’s
approach focuses initial reflection, discussion and implementation
efforts on clarifying the relationship between our Catholic faith and
excellence in education. Read More
- Achieving and Sustaining Educational Excellence with Workforce Excellence
This service employs the same approach and processes as our services
for Catholic identity above – only the focus of the practices and
processes is different – excellence in education. Read More
- Administrative Models, Structures & Processes
We will carefully assess your current administrative model, structure
and processes relative to Partners in Mission Comprehensive Advancement
Program model for building excellence in your Catholic faith
communities, both inside and outside the formal school structure. Read More
- Leadership Training for School Administration
Our Leadership and Teamwork Development Workshops promise an
opportunity for your school leadership team to acquire and use personal
assessments, conceptual models and guided discussion to expand each
team member’s awareness of the impact they can deliver in their
individual role, as well as in their key strategic relationships. Read More
- Board Member and Leadership In Service Training and Retreats
Partners in Mission counts among its Partners several talented board
members and executive officers who have the depth of experience to
deliver focused leadership in-service presentations, sessions or
retreats customized to your specific goals and unique set of needs for
advisory boards, governing boards and major board committees. Read More
- Strategic and Operational Planning for Workforce Excellence
Partners in Mission works with your school’s leadership team to, first,
develop exceptional understanding and clarity on the governing board’s
vision, mission, strategic plan or other comprehensive directional
documents, and carefully and systematically translating those
directional documents into strategic and operating plans for 1-3 years. Read More
- Organizational Design and Structure
Once solid operating plans are completed, reviewing the current
organizational structure and determining appropriate modifications to
enhance the effectiveness of the Workforce Excellence initiatives is
essential. Read More
- Workforce Planning and Staffing Strategies
Outstanding organizations in all venues know that planning for growth
and turnover – especially for replacement of valuable “front line”
staff such as faculty members or administrative staff who “wear many
hats” – must become a proactive, not a reactive, process. Read More
- Selection, Hiring and On-Boarding
Catholic school leaders at all levels know that acquiring and orienting
the best professionals and support staff is still the heart and soul of
your transforming Catholic mission. Read More
- Performance Management for Workforce Excellence
Critical to the success of any “service organization” is developing and
implementing a simple, straightforward process to provide clear,
focused, coordinated direction to each individual in the community.
That direction defines their role in, and contribution to, your school
community of excellence. Read More
- Organizational Learning and Workforce Development
Stephen Covey points out in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People,
productive individuals must regularly take time from the work of
cutting down trees to sharpen the saw; otherwise performance in
tree-cutting progressively degrades as the saw dulls. Read More
- Leadership Development and Succession Planning Integration
If focused and coordinated learning is important for your school
community in general, it is absolutely critical for you and your
leadership team, especially if you grasp the high impact strategy of
managing the process of long-term excellence by inspiring and
coordinating learning at the individual level to achieve breakthrough
levels of performance. Read More
- Activities and Project Management Strategies
When excellence in regular activities or ad hoc projects is required to
advance the mission of your school, a systematic and effective project
management process will ensure high levels of accomplishment consistent
with your mission of excellence in Catholic education. Partners in
Mission’s best practices in this area can help develop and ensure
effective and focused management of important activities and projects
even when utilizing volunteers. Read More
- The CRI (Continuous & Rapid Improvement) Process
Excellence is simply continual change, refinement, transformation
directed to more fully realizing your school’s mission. The Continuous
& Rapid Improvement process, like Activities and Project
Management, is a “building block” competence of excellent organizations. Read More
- Gap Analysis and Process Improvement Tools
With this best practice, Partners in Mission shows you how to take the
basic Activities and Project Management process and apply it
effectively to smaller opportunities in a less formal setting. Read More
- Effective Issues Resolution and Group Problem Solving Tools
One of the most discouraging and de-energizing things for any community
is living with persistent and divisive issues, and the conflict arising
out of them, Partners in Mission can train your leadership team to
become effective issues resolution facilitators using simple,
straightforward processes designed to turn conflict into
accomplishment, and adversaries into partners. Read More
- Recognition, Incentive and Reward Processes
One of the most powerful tools for focusing attention on
mission-critical activities is providing positive recognition, rewards
and incentives. Thousands of management studies over 75 years show
that the overwhelming majority of people want to do a good or excellent
job at work, and in fact do the right thing well over 80% of the time. Read More
- Succession, Redeployment and Retirement Strategies and Processes
When excellence in advancing the mission of your Catholic school is
your primary focus, planning for growth and turnover – and especially
the replacement of key leaders and valuable “front line” leaders such
as department chairs – must become a proactive, not a reactive,
process. Partners in Mission delivers a solid collection of best
practices in this area and works with your leadership team to create
staffing succession, redeployment and retirement strategies, plans and
processes to ensure the long-term success of your transforming mission. Read More
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