Small Things; Big Difference What Does It Mean to Be Kind? Practicing kindness is one small thing that has really big results. Explore the 8 actions you can do immediately to accelerate kindness and achieve higher results on your team.
Connect Because You Care Engage Teams While Improving Processes One of a leader’s greatest responsibilities is to ensure teams are engaged and productive. People are motivated to increase productivity when leaders take time to get to know them personally, make them feel comfortable, and help remove barriers in the workplace.
Dealing with Difficult People Are coworkers driving you crazy? Many of us are in frequent contact daily with a number of colleagues, some of which are easier to work with than others. Working with a difficult colleague undermines productivity and happiness in the workplace. Learning to deal with difficult people is vital to our success, both individually and as teams.
Feedback is a Gift…or is it? Provide Specific and Simple Feedback Reflect on the last time someone gave you constructive feedback... did it feel like a gift? That likely depends on the intent of the person providing the feedback. Listen as Dr. Janet Pilcher describes how to provide feedback as a gift, instead of an insult.
Building an Army of Improvers We Can't Do Improvement Alone In this podcast episode, Dr. Pat Greco joins us to discuss how leaders and their team members can keep an improvement-mindset, despite the current obstacles and challenges we may face.
Improve by Measuring What Matters Sustain Results at Scale The work of improvement creates the backbone for real change where it matters. Focus on continuous improvement yields valuable results and radically changes outcomes in a number of fields. In this podcast, Dr. Pat Greco joins us to continue the conversation around improving school systems and organizations so leaders can accelerate results and sustain success over time.
Education Will Never Look the Same One team, one mission, one community When we are faced with change we have an opportunity to respond with creative solutions. Today, our podcast guest shares how her organization is inspired to navigate change by the vision: one team, one mission, one community.
Communication Preference Card Communicate effectively Effective communication reduces anxiety and strengthens relationships. Preference cards are an efficient way to share information that is important for the relationship to be successful.
Think Like a Parent Improve the Learning Experience To be a successful organization and ensure students have the best experience, it can be useful to view your organization from a parent’s point of view.
Be the Model: Routines and Procedures Act as I Do When adults model and consistently hold students accountable to expected behaviors, they send a message about the importance of the routines and procedures.
