Now what?

Colleagues,

This week: Five things to do to ease into a productive fall
 
If you’ve been following along this week, you should have the following:

• Feedback from others about your leadership strengths and possible organizational changes 
• List of frequent tasks
• An emotion or two you would like to feel less often
• Your own list of quality-of-life organizational improvements

 
At first these things may seem unconnected, but there is a good chance that there are patterns and relationships, in which things from one list touch things from other lists. Spend a few minutes thinking about this and looking for the connections, the patterns.
 
Try and identify one change or action that would impact multiple things on your lists. It shouldn’t be a big change, just something small.
 
Examples:

• Change my morning routine to allow me to coach one person first thing in the morning
• Move FYI items to the end of the agenda instead of covering them first
• Develop a template for responding to parent concerns

 
If you have an aha moment, please consider sharing it with me here.
 
Next week we will begin our annual tradition of sharing the wisest things I’ve learned from other people. This will cover most of July. I love hearing from you, so please respond if something moves you, but I probably won’t get back to you until the last week of July as I will be unplugging for a few weeks.

Cheers!

Frederick