If increasing value has a negative impact on your metrics, maybe you have the wrong metrics.8/29/2025 Colleagues,
Remember the MVP is in the subject line. If you have strong feelings about the change, good or bad, please let us know. Your thoughts are important to us. For the last two weeks we’ve been experimenting with putting the MVP in the subject line of the daily email. We think this will increase the impact of the daily email by helping people reflect even if they are too busy to open the message. It should also help by making it easier for people to decide whether a specific email is worth opening because the topic is obvious. At the same time, I anticipate this change will have an adverse impact on our metrics. If our hypothesis is correct, the actual open rate for the email may decrease even though the impact increases. So, doing the right thing might negatively impact our bottom line. If this is the case, then maybe we are measuring the wrong thing. 🤔 HELP! We will run the MVP in the subject line for at least one more week, but we would love to get your feedback. Should we keep doing it? Click this link to a two-question poll. Thank you! Cheers! Frederick
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One more post about Tuesday’s podcast episode because it was soooooo good! There are some things we can become good at with minimal effort. Five-minute coaching is pretty easy: ask a question, be quiet, repeat three times. Getting good at having difficult conversations is hard. It takes work. You need to train and work on your technique. Maybe this is why they are difficult. To make the training a bit easier, my guests Erika and Tiffany created a one-pager to capture the essentials of having a difficult conversation. The one-pager won’t make the conversations easier, but it will make working at having better conversations easier. The link is only available in the show notes, so you can go to the episode here and click the download link at the top of the page. Maybe download that pod while you are at it. 😉 Cheers! Frederick Colleagues, One of the counterproductive ideas we hold about leadership is that leaders are supposed to have answers and solve problems. It’s counterproductive because leaders are human, they rarely have all the important information needed, and they are frequently wrong. I say “they” but of course I really mean “we.” Approach conflict with humility – there is a decent chance the other person is right, or at least that they know something you don’t about the situation. Be curious. My podcast interview with Erika Bare and Tiffany Burns is sector-agnostic. If you have difficult conversations, you will find this helpful, regardless of your profession. I’m happy to acknowledge Kaleidoscope Adventures as a sponsor of yesterday’s episode of The Assistant Principal Podcast! I appreciate their support and encourage you to connect with them if you are thinking about planning a school trip!  Cheers!
Frederick Colleagues, Remember the MVP is in the subject line. If you have strong feelings about the change, good or bad, please let us know. Your thoughts are important to us. What if the first step in having a difficult conversation is actually having a conversation with yourself? If we go into a stressful situation without fully understanding the emotions we are holding and the story we are telling ourselves, then those emotions and stories can limit our chances at achieving a positive resolution. This is a sector-agnostic episode of The Assistant Principal Podcast. If you have difficult conversations, you will find this helpful, regardless of your profession. Thanks again to IXL for sponsoring today’s episode.  Cheers!
Frederick Colleagues,
Remember the MVP is in the subject line. If you have strong feelings about the change, good or bad, please let us know. Your thoughts are important to us. What will you do with the time you have? It is a difficult question to answer because we don’t know how much time we actually have. Last week I lost two cousins in a fatal car accident. In the blink of an eye, their time here came to an end. For them, there is no later, no tomorrow. And in a sense, the same is true for us. How might we live differently if we fully appreciated the fragility of our lives? With a limited amount of time, maybe we should spend more time with people and less time on tasks. Cheers! Frederick |
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