As you’ve hopefully noticed by now, my leadership strategies aren’t just a “learn about leadership” kinda deal. It’s a “let’s actually build and launch your community into action THIS year” kinda deal. And while “learning” and “doing” are closely related, there’s one ingredient that must be added to the mix to create the magic. Commitment. […]
Tag: zero to hero
Hard Conversations
A colleague isn’t quite contributing like you want them to or perhaps you feel like they are interrupting you or undermining you. Every time you offer an idea, the resounding ‘yeah but’ or ‘no, that won’t work’ echoes a response. Someone throws you some serious shade every time you walk into work or your home. […]
Community Members Who are Resistant To Change
Have you ever stood in front of your community and stared out into the abyss of empty stares, silent head nods, smiles, tired faces, only to land on that one person who has their hands folded, glaring at you. You know that person is not digging what you are saying, have no intention of moving, […]
Fight to Be In This Room
You are here. You are in this moment. You are the leader of this school or this business. You fought to be here and you did everything you could to stand out from the crowd and to make decisions that were best for your community. Now you have been thrown a huge mountain and you […]
Workshop Curators Day-Inviting Teachers to Lead Sessions
Late night hustling….all day thinking….endless searching for the next topic…all to ensure that your professional learning meetings or staff meetings are filled with value. Does this sound familiar? I know that my days were filled with a lot of this. I was doing all of the work! The crazy thing was that I wasn’t the […]
How To Lead Through A Pandemic
Pandemic? That definitely puts a wrench into our plans as leaders to have the best year yet! Or does it? Do we have to make this really hard thing even harder by wallowing or staying in the endless abyss of unknowns? Or can we start to climb? What if we start to take one step […]
Collecting Evidence of Impact
Download my FREE guide to show you exactly how to set up your meetings so that the learners are engaged by doing the work and you are always creating space for evidence of impact. The success of your business and community engagement is directly tied to your ability to notice and grow your evidence of […]
The 5 Leadership Questions I Get Asked All the Time…
As I move through my leadership journey, I have started to get a lot better at the art of noticing. I notice and reflect on my journey each day and it is incredible what I learn from noticing the patterns of trends of the conversations that I have. Particularly, I started to pay attention to […]
Ways to Include Teachers in Leadership
As leaders, our main job is to grow as many leaders as we can in our community. In a school, that includes our teachers and our students. In leadership, leaders sometimes feel that they are alone when actually there is a whole community of leaders who are at the door just waiting to be invited […]
‘Must Haves’ For Staying Lit This Year
Let’s start with an Oprah quote…. ⠀ “I’ve come to believe that each of us have a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint — and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working […]