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Commit to Excellence: Improve the bottom line while living out mission and values
- Creates service excellence so employees, students, and parents feel valued
- Merits a ranking for which any employee or parent recommends the school district to others
Tools and tactics needed to Commit to Excellence:
- Define what success looks like and how it’s measured
- Create organizational values with key descriptors
- Build consistency of leadership practices
- Align systems and processes
- Commit to senior leadership role modeling
Excerpt from: Maximize Performance