Inside this new course, you’ll get the entire step-by-step process to get good at listening – FAST. You’ll find out exactly what good listening is (and is not)… how to understand someone’s full communication… how to reach an important agreement… tools for highly-emotional conversations… specific skills for business and negotiation… and more… With The Power […]
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NEW | Becoming A Leader
I’m excited to announce a new course, Becoming A Leader, the first in our Leadership Essentials series. With the Becoming a Leader course, you’ll discover: When you join Becoming A Leader, you’ll learn key characteristics and qualities you’ll need to develop to effectively lead any group of people. The course contains everything you need to know to […]
Some Help For Summer Planning
It’s summertime! For me, summertime means the luxury to think and plan. Set me up with a glass of ice tea on the porch, my yellow note pad, and a blue ink pen and I’m ready to plan how to make the next year better. To help you with your planning, I’ve put together a […]
Kids Talk Workshops Are Open!
Earlier this year I reopened one of my Kids Talk Workshops, Unscramble Spelling, after revamping it. I was curious to see if there would be any interest in the course, as it had been closed for over two years. The response was favorable, so I’ve revamped three other courses, just in time to help out for […]
FREE TRAINING | What About Kindergarten? A Montessori Perspective
It’s a perennial problem for Montessori schools. How can we show parents the importance of the third year of our programs for children 3 to 6 years old? Because the third year in a Montessori program is truly a leap year! This is a session that you will want to let all of your school […]
Establishing Purpose
Over the last two posts, we’ve been looking at three key skills that can help us build strong school communities: Establishing purpose. Daniel Coyle in his book, Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups, tells us that continuously answering two key questions helps us establish purpose in our organizations: As school leaders we may think that […]
Sharing Vulnerability
As we work to build strong school communities, communities of care and service, there are three key skills that can help us: What does it mean to share vulnerability? As leaders we may think that we should have all the answers, that whatever happens on our call, we should be able to handle it. Daniel Coyle […]
Safety First
What makes a group highly successful? Daniel Coyle in his book, Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups, tells us that there are three key skills that leaders use to build cohesive, high functioning organizations. Safety is first. Safety is the foundation for a strong and vibrant culture. Interestingly, Coyle tells us that safety builds […]
BOOK | Peace, Love, Action!
August 28, 1963. The evening news showed Martin Luther King, Jr. giving his now famous I Have a Dream speech. As an almost eight-year-old, I listened, sensing the underlying truth of what he was saying. The next day’s newspaper carried the full text and I read it out loud to my mother, asking for clarification […]
Why You Should Pay Your Child’s School Tuition
(even if your school is closed) Over the past couple of weeks with school closures due to the COVID-19 emergency, school leaders and parents have voiced concerns to me about school tuition. “Several families have requested tuition refunds since we are closed and not offering our contracted services,” said one head of school. “Why should […]