Tip 1: Ask yourself if your organization values skill development and training. Tip 2: Take frequency into consideration when learning new skills. Tip 3: Take care to find the right mentoring [...]
Best-Place-To-Work Standards of Practice: The goal in creating standards is to get faculty and staff input on defining the way people engage in the workplace environment so that it becomes a [...]
Employee Forums: One way for senior leaders to communicate at all levels is through employee forums. We find that as senior leaders, we are pretty good at making decisions, but we don’t [...]
Professional Performance Conversations: Conducting professional performance conversations determines whether a school district will break through to excellence or hit a wall. Only one [...]
Selecting the right employees is one of the most important decisions that leaders make. Once you have selected those employees, how do you best retain them in the first 90 days? We train leaders [...]
Employee Recognition: We find that three tools are particularly effective in recognizing people for the work they do. First, we promote creating a process to manage up other people. We teach that [...]
Professionals in service-oriented fields are driven by their core values, which keep them on target. But sometimes we bog down in daily tasks and forget why we chose our profession. As educators, [...]