May 31, 2023
No matter what you do, there will be times when your teachers disagree with you. When that happens, you have a choice. You can be a boss and use your positional power to steamroll over any disagreement (and create toxicity, stifle everyone’s voice, and drive true innovation underground). You can use...
May 24, 2023
Everyone tells you that the key to building trust is transparency, but no one ever tells you how to achieve that transparency. So, we either try to be "strategically transparent" sharing some thing while withholding others (which often leads to more distrust) or we feel that we have to strop ourselves naked and share...
May 17, 2023
Are you focused on control, conformity, or alignment? Your answer will likely determine whether you have a toxic culture, a good enough culture, or a 100% culture. Tune in today to discover why trying to stay in control of your school will lead to burn out, toxicity, and failure, why conformity is a trap that keeps...
May 10, 2023
The difference between a toxic, good enough, and 100% culture can usually be boiled down to how each culture pursues its work. Toxic cultures are reactionary and pursue their work from a sense of panic. Good Enough cultures pursue their work to alleviate the tension between where they are and where they need to be,...
May 3, 2023
One of the biggest traps leaders face is that they have been trained to focus on making their staff comfortable instead of safe. The challenge is that once you start focusing on your team’s comfort, you end up making people comfortable where they are instead of challenging them to pursue something better. On...