06+Facilitating+Meetings

Facilitating meetings may seem like it isn't an important piece to the leadership puzzle, but, once you are missing that piece you realize how important it really is. In my situation there is no facilitating of meetings. We are told what will happen and when a discussion or questions start to arise we are quickly shut down and put into small groups and not brought back together as a large group. I think if we were able to talk as a large group and discuss our visions/concerns we could work together as a team and accomplish much more than we currently do. Lambert says on page 44, a Laissez-faire principal is one that makes the decisions behind the scenes without involving others systematically, creating organizational uncertainty and fragmentation. Lambert also states that there is a negative implication of this practice because vulnerable children may fall through the cracks. It seems as though this is exactly what is currently happening in my building.