How do the Influencer Model and 4DX complement/supplement each other?

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In the short time I have been a Kindergarten teacher, I have been able to visualize how students have a low motivation towards writing and how to apply this to opinion, narrative, and poetic writing. A problem that, in discussions with my team of more experienced teachers, reveals a recurring problem year after year. This implies the search for new ways to teach and have results. Implementing blended learning in kindergarten represents an innovative strategy to improve writing skills in children. This innovation plan promotes intrinsic motivation, integrating changes, innovations, and technologies that transform the writing process. To ensure the success of this plan, we have combined two powerful strategies that we consider crucial to change. The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) with the Influencers Model allow effective and sustained execution of the desired changes.

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When I think about how these proposals (Influencer Model and The 4DX) complement each other, my graphic mind becomes concave and convex. From top to bottom, they have strong connections around their analysis and practical proposals. The 4DX encourages us to identify and focus on a crucial objective: Increase the intrinsic motivation of students towards writing, something that the Influences Model does very well since it allows teachers and students to be mobilized and motivated towards the objectives (WIG) using influences personal and social. The second discipline focuses on identifying and acting on measures that predict success, which the Influencer Model gives us a foundation to analyze the influences that affect these. Creating a scoreboard is a visual and motivating tool that keeps everyone focused on goals. The Influencer Model guides us to use structural and social influences that encourage and motivate students and teachers. Adapting and adopting new changes in kindergarten could not work without routines and monitoring. The fourth discipline encourages routine responsibility and monitoring. Here, the Influencer Model highlights the importance of personal and social influences in holding regular meetings to review progress and adjust strategies. So, integrating the 4 Disciplines of Delivery with the Influencer Model provides an effective strategy for implementing blended learning in kindergarten

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Conclusión:

Throughout my journey through The Four Disciplines of Execution, many passages left an imprint on me and a terrible desire to put them into practice. One of the messages the authors leave in the book is inspiring and motivating for me, which I make available to you as a conclusion to this work.

“Consider spending the future in a relentless whirlwind where everything is always urgent and truly important priorities are forever postponed. The great management scientist Peter Drucker observed: “I have seen many people who are great at doing unimportant things. They have an impressive track record of achievements in trivial matters.” But you don't want to be magnificently trivial. You want to make a real difference. Want to make a high-value, high-impact contribution? The 4 Disciplines of Execution can take you there (McChesney et al, 2012)”