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Colleagues, In my conversation with Robyn Fehrman about tapping the power of Gen Z, we talked a lot about leadership. Robyn shared, “leadership is the secret sauce.” On the one hand, we all know this. On the other hand, do we really understand it? Three ingredients of the secret sauce:
Do these three things, and your people will help guide you on how to do the other “leadership stuff.” 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
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Colleagues, Today’s episode is about generational differences. Robyn Fehrman and I invest a lot of time discussing how to leverage the assets of Gen Z. This is an episode that applies to fields other than education, so if you work with people in their twenties, give it a listen. One of the points Robyn made was how Gen Z has a high propensity for doing value-driven work AND tends to be more risk averse and needs to feel a strong sense of belonging. The implications for leaders are that we need to lean into building relationships. Does this fit some of the young people you lead? And if you are part of Gen Z, what does this mean for how you lead and communicate with those around you? Thanks again to IXL for sponsoring today’s episode.  Cheers!
Frederick Colleagues,
In August, Mara and I released an episode of The Assistant Principal Podcast about our morning routines. Listener/reader Stephen Hurworth shared several interesting things about his mindfulness practice, including morning routines. You can find his brief article here and it’s worth the five minutes to read. This piece jumped out at me as being particularly useful: "If something is playing on my mind and it’s bringing up negative emotions or frustration, I have a traffic light style system that I make a note of: Red - the thing I am worried about. Amber - the triggers. Green - the solutions." I encourage everyone to give it a try! Maybe right now 😉 Cheers! Frederick Colleagues, In my younger days I was so task focused and driven that I really did not understand how to build relationships. Of course, I had many good relationships, but I didn’t know how to be intentional about developing relationships with people I barely knew. That’s why I developed a simple model. It is not sophisticated and probably has some missing pieces, but it is simple. Want to build a relationship?
Cheers! Frederick  Colleagues,
Reader, Tom Walls, reacted to a story I told about an administrator wrestling with student discipline issues that were more tied to teacher issues than to student ones. He wrote about it and shared with me. This line jumped out: “Unfortunately, telling someone to ‘build relationships’ isn’t much of a tool.” I preach a lot about the power of relationships, but how do we do that? I’ll share my thoughts tomorrow, but today you can read Tom's full post here. Cheers! Frederick |
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