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Begin with the end in mind. A simple yet profound idea. How many of us would start to build a house without having a detailed blueprint? But many of us go through life without much of a plan. Begin with the end in mind is a habit to help us be more effective in our […]
Recently I made a list of books that I felt had been pivotal in my growth as a leader. Needless to say, Stephen Covey’s The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People made that list. In early 1989 my husband, Mark, came home one evening telling me he had been in a corporate training session that day […]
An article In The Harvard Business Review, How to Spend The First 10 Minutes of Your Day, reinforced my own practice of how I spend the first part of my day. Yeah! For a while I’ve made it a daily practice to plan my day with worksheets that I keep in a notebook. These ten minutes planning […]
“I’m so over!” Jennifer said. “Overwhelmed. Overworked. Overscheduled.” As school leaders, the demands on our time, as well as our own tendencies toward perfection or procrastination, can create a situation where we are over our heads. How can we go from overwhelmed to overdrive, to feeling like we are cruising in the driver’s seat? Make […]
As we work with adults we often wonder why our expectations or standards aren’t being met. We believe in assuring success for children. How can we assure success for adults? Success usually requires more of the following: Skills and training Experience Time to get the job done Support from others Materials Confidence Desire or motivation to […]
One of the traps I tend to fall into, time and time again, is this one: I’d rather do it myself that delegate a task and have someone not do it correctly. As school leaders working with staff and volunteers we can be put in uncomfortable situations by others’ mistakes and tardiness. How can we use […]
In our series on teaching civility, we’ve considered that there are key questions we need to keep in the air every day. : Who do I want to be? As a community, there are key questions to address: We’ve looked at personal strategies to deal with incivility: There are high costs to incivility: You’ve learned how to calculate your […]
As a school leader we deal with lots of different personalities from youngsters to adults. Trying to meet a variety of needs…no wonder we might feel like we are herding cats. There are some similarities in guiding adults and children. Perhaps when we can focus on those similarities we can play to our strengths. […]
One of the dangers of dealing with incivility is like the proverbial frog in a pot of boiling water. If a frog jumps into boiling water, he’ll jump right out. Light the fire after the frog is in the pot, and he stays until it is too late. With incivility we run the risk of […]
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me. This nursery rhyme from the 1830’s, created to help children develop self-control in the face of taunting, sets us up to think we have to accept incivility. From an early age, we are told to “toughen up” and ignore others’ insults and […]
