Learning to Leap
Change and innovation requires a leap. How are you leaping and encouraging others to leap?
And How Are You Today?
How often have you asked the question? What about “How are you doing?” or one similar? How often have you listened to the response? Really listened. In the hustle and bustle of the day, we’re all very busy and such conversations are sometimes fillers as we politely listen to a reply. And there are those…
#saskedchat – November 12, 2015
Our topic for the November 12th, 2015 chat was Moving from Teacher Competition to Collaboration. The participants were eager to explore this topic and had great insights into the reasons why competition sometimes masquerades as collaboration and how, at times, cooperation can be substituted for collaboration. Both Competition and Cooperation allow school staffs to get…
The Human Side of School
In a recent Switch and Shift article How Technology is Challenging the Human Side of Business, Pam Ross discusses her role in helping leaders bridge the technology/human relationship gap. The thing is, technology impacts our workplaces and our culture like never before. To the same degree, it also provides ways to better connect, communicate and…
It Isn’t This or That
Human connections are always changing and shifting. Is there really one better way to connect?
Listening in the Midst of Living
We devote time to what is important but who gets to decide what is important in a person’s life?
Are you Failing or Flailing?
Are you planning for success so that failure informs what you are doing? Failure happens but do you have a plan for using the failure to move toward success?
Let’s Try Re-Framing
The First Follower This is one of my favourite videos about leadership and being willing to take risks. Early in my career as a teacher, and then as an administrator, I often was so focused on my own agenda that I often missed out on helping others who were more talented that I was as particular…
Friday Resource Review – Pearltrees
Pearltrees is an online curation service that allows the user to store and share their own items, pictures, notes, writings and also collect and share items from the web. Pearltrees, the place to organize all your interests, has gathered more than 2,2 million contributors, over 3 million monthly active users and 70 million items. In 2012,…
Takeaways, Reminders and a Challenge
Dave Burgess – Teach Like a Pirate – speaking at SMYA What’s the best part of a Conference? Last week I attended and spoke at the SMYA conference. Dave Burgess – Teach Like a Pirate – was the keynote for the two day event. I was asked to do an introductory session on Leadership for Change Thursday morning and then do a…