Lead Like the Legends: Application and Action Planning
Participants who experienced either the Lead Like the Legends or the Lead Like the Legends 2: The Human Side of Leadership keynote reflect and consider which lessons resonate within the context of their own workplaces. Each participant develops a personal action plan to apply the leadership lessons in their own settings in order to increase their organization’s success.
Getting it Together: An Education in Collaboration
In this hands-on, practical, three-part workshop series, participants learn the three steps to shared success that every leader needs to know:
- Accessibility and Visibility
- Relationship Building
- Collaborative Decision-Making
Leaders leave the workshops with authentic and relevant action plans to begin implementing when they return to their schools or workplaces.
Enhancing Staff Engagement
What do George Gallup and Abraham Maslow have in common? Learn how two innovators, from very different professions, provide a model for enhancing staff engagement. Participants learn practical, tested strategies to increase their staff’s engagement and motivation and produce results.
Learn how to overcome the stress of interviewing for a new position or giving a presentation. Aspiring leaders learn strategies they can immediately use to improve their interview skills in this hands-on practical workshop that also enhances their public speaking in all settings. Participants learn how to address the first make-or-break question in an interview and a 3-step model to use when answering any question in an interview or Q&A session following a presentation. (Individual interview coaching is also available.)
Interviewing for Success
Administrators and teacher leaders learn methods to implement growth plans that support employee improvement by building their capacity. Participants will: 1. Identify the areas in which teachers and other employees need support in order to improve, 2. Define the purpose of growth plans, 3. Analyze the 4 stages of improvement planning, and 4. Apply their knowledge to scenarios and authentic examples.
Supporting Teachers and Other Employees to Improve Their Practice
In the first session of this 2-part workshop series, administrators and teacher leaders will: 1. Define the purpose of providing feedback and documenting performance, 2. Identify the characteristics of effective feedback, 3. Compare the advantages and disadvantages of verbal and written feedback, 4. Discuss a progressive approach to conferences and documentation, 5. Analyze the 9 steps to a structured approach to conferences and documentation, and 6. Apply their knowledge to authentic examples.
In the second session of this 2-part workshop series, administrators and teacher leaders will: 1. Apply a progressive approach to conferences and documentation to authentic examples, 2. Apply the 9 steps to a structured approach to conferences and documentation to authentic examples, 3. Discuss when to use each of the 4 types of conferences and explore how to reflect them in the documentation, 4. Share their knowledge, skills and perspectives about actual cases (past, present, and upcoming), and 5. Plan how to share their learning with their colleagues and staffs.
Providing Feedback and Documenting Performance
A school is the heart of a community. Principals, assistant principals and teacher leaders learn practical skills to develop partnerships with students, staff, parents, other offices and schools, businesses, governments, non-profits, newspapers, universities and colleges. Participants return to their schools ready to immediately begin implementing productive strategies, in order to build a network of support within and around their schools.