It can’t be my vision; it needs to be our vision

Colleagues,

I invest so much of my time helping people avoid making big mistakes in change initiatives, so when I make those mistakes myself, it is super-frustrating.

I’m working with several schools on implementing my flywheel model to grow teacher capacity.

In brief the flywheel has three components:

• Provide professional development/training
• Follow up training with targeted observations to monitor results
• Use data from observations to plan the next training

It’s a simple and powerful concept, but there are many places where implementing a flywheel can break down, and in my excitement to push some school leaders into implementing the flywheel, I made some critical mistakes.

In today’s podcast I describe five frequent mistakes we make when it comes to implementing change. This is sector agnostic – if you ever lead change, these five things are critical.

Mistake one – it can’t be my vision; it needs to be our vision. I think this is the most common mistake people (including me) make. Sometimes we can trust too much in our own leadership.

Thanks again to IXL for sponsoring today’s episode!

Cheers!

​Frederick