Learning Through School Leadership - Learn strategies, habits, and tools to become the school leader you imagined you could be.
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Grief doesn’t just change us personally, it shapes our leadership too. In this episode, Liz reflects on the challenges of leading through loss and the small, practical ways we can keep showing up with honesty and heart.
26 Jan 2025
15. How to Deal with Leadership Stress Step-by-Step
Today's episode provides a step by step plan to help you deal with any stress you face in healthy ways and respond well. Get equipped with the tools to thrive during whatever season you find yourself in throughout the year.
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8 Feb 2024
Your Mission Statement - A Foundation for Resiliency
Leadership coach and resilience expert, [Name], shares how crafting a clear mission statement empowers individuals to respond to stress with purpose and resilience.
12 Jan 2024
Step-by-Step Vision Building
Your vision is your desired future state—your ultimate destination as a leader. It is what you want to achieve, create, or become in the long term. It is also your source of inspiration and motivation in the present. I recently discovered that without a clear vison, I was unable to find the motivation to do work that was important to me.
In Season 2 Episode 2 of Imagine Believe Achieve, I get personal as I dig into the process of creating a personal leadership vision. I share my experiences of not having a vision and what happened after I wrote one. Learn how to craft your own vision for your school leadership and get clear on how you want to show up for you staff. I’ll take you through a step-by-step process and provide thought prompts, examples.
Inspiration for this episode – Edie Wadsworth Coaching (https://www.ediewadsworthcoaching.com/)
Link to Vison Statement Template and Examples (https://mailchi.mp/e2eeebdf33d5/visiontemplate)
25 Aug 2023
Creating a Vision of Your School Leadership
To lead your school well for a long time you need to craft a VISION for your leadership. This involves figuring out:
1. What you have to offer your school regarding your strengths, tendencies, and personality traits
2. What you want your day to day experience to be like in your school. Once you have a crystal clear vision of how you want to show up as a leader, you can work on making it a reality. But you have to have that vision first.
In today’s episode Liz provides examples of what that was like in her experience as a school leader and actionable steps you can take to get started crafting your own personal vision for school leadership.
30 May 2023
Mental Exhaustion - How can you keep it from derailing you?
In this week’s episode, Liz tackles the topic of mental exhaustion. She will share a 3-step plan for what to do when you start noticing the signs of mental exhaustion.
STEP 1: Recognize it and name it.
STEP 2: Stop: Be still and quiet.
STEP 3: Choose an activity that allows you to withdraw and restore.
22 May 2023
Building Your Personal Productivity System
Building a personal productivity system can make the overwhelming job of being a principal much more manageable and decrease your stress. Today Liz discusses concepts from David Allen’s Getting Things Done, the art of stress-free productivity. (https://a.co/d/1TNb9DV)
Key ideas:
You need to have a place and systems for processing your "stuff."
You need to have a system to collect, process, and prioritize your thoughts.
Having a system is essential to not just getting things done efficiently, but also to managing your stress.
Join Liz as she discusses a 3-Step Process for getting organized and shares her weekly routine for prioritizing and reviewing the previous week and week ahead. Her Weekly review is based on David Allen’s review and Michael Hyatt’s Weekly Review from the Full Focus Planner. (https://fullfocus.co/the-importance-of-the-weekly-review/)
Michael Hyatt's Podcast (https://fullfocus.co/podcasts/)
15 May 2023
Three Practices to Support the Leadership is Learning Mindset
In this mini episode, Liz discusses 3 practices that support the leadership is learning mindset.
These practices will develop your self-leadership and get you on track for a successful first year or your best year yet.
Practice #1 Start by paying attention to yourself.
Practice #2 Develop your systems for organizing and remembering
Practice 3: Develop Your Systems for Effective and Efficient Communication.
8 May 2023
Leading WELL: The Leadership is Learning Mindset
Leadership is Learning is a mindset CRITICAL to adopt for your success and mental well-being. In this episode, we will explore what Leadership is Learning really means for you and what it looks like by applying the Leadership is Learning mindset to three main areas.
1. We start with the relatable Learner of Learning mindset. Having this mindset means that you are a learner of student learning and instruction. This is an attitude that most school leaders can relate to and one that is easy to tap into as instructional leaders. When you have the mindset that you, especially, are a learner of learning, you model the open, growth mindset you want your teachers to have. This openness will help your teachers be more willing to take risks and try new practices than they would for a leader who “already knows everything or has all the answers.”
2. Being a Learner of People is about learning how to lead your staff in human resource management—like holding people accountable, having difficult
conversations, handling conflict, etc. By keeping a mindset that you are a learner of people, you can allow these situations to be learning opportunities for you
instead of irritations. In this episode, you will learn ways you can apply this mindset to authentic school examples.
3. The number one way you can prepare yourself to take on principalship and continuously grow as a leader is to be a Learner of Yourself. By learning about your go-to reactions, thoughts, feelings, and going further—your strengths and weaknesses in these areas—you can make conscious efforts to improve your leadership skills and build stronger relationships with your staff. Being a learner of yourself starts with paying attention to yourself and your thoughts, emotions, and reactions. This self-awareness can be cultivated through practices such as journaling or regular reflection.
Ultimately, having the Leadership is Learning mindset is about taking responsibility for your own growth and development. By paying attention to yourself and what you come to learn is your leadership style, you can lead with authenticity and self-awareness, build stronger relationships with your team members, and create a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
1 May 2023
Leading WELL: Effective and Efficient Communication
Liz continues the Leading WELL series by introducing five principles of Effective and Efficient Communication:
Principle 1: Face to Face is Sacred Space
Principle 2: Just Because You Know it Then, Doesn’t Mean You Share Again
Principle 3: Facebook’s for Tooting not Telling
Principle 4: Solving may be Satisfying, but Supporting is Sustaining
Source: Cognitive Coaching Training (https://www.thinkingcollaborative.com/aboutcc) https://www.thinkingcollaborative.com/aboutcc (https://www.thinkingcollaborative.com/aboutcc)
Book cited: The Coach Approach to School Leadership by Kathy Perret, Shira Leibowitz, and Jessica
Johnson
Click here for the printable sentence frame (https://mailchi.mp/f457c74059f5/sentence-frames)
Principle 5: Cut the Credibility Killers
20 Apr 2023
Strategies and Mental Tools for Carrying the Leadership Load
In this episode, Liz introduces a 2-Step implementation plan, strategies, and tools for dealing with the stressful moments and seasons.
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Implementation Plan:
Step 1: Preparation
Be prepared for stressful situations by starting your day with a spiritual practice. A morning routine helps make that a reality. Check out Hal Elrod's Miracle Morning, (https://miraclemorning.com/) Michael Hyatt's Daily Rituals (https://fullfocus.co/power-of-rituals/) for more on this. See episode #33, Four Rituals That Make You Super Productive, (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ul6bolGTGc)in Hyatt's Business Accelerator podcast.
Step 2: PAUSE For the Cheatsheet go to: https://imaginebelieveachieve.blog/PAUSE (https://imaginebelieveachieve.blog/PAUSE)
P stands for Pick – Pick a breathing exercise to calm yourself.
A stands for Ask for Help – Ask for help through prayer.
U stands for Understand – Understand that this situation is an opportunity to show up in a certain way or learn something.
S is for Surrender – Surrender the fear or negative feelings you are having and respond in love.
E stands for Experience – Experience the situation fully. Write down any thoughts or feeling you can identify.
22 Feb 2023
Carrying the Load of Leadership
Former principal and industry expert Tina Hargaden shares practical tools and strategies for prioritizing school leaders' mental wellness and achieving sustainable leadership.
15 Feb 2023
Releasing Yourself from Expectations
Host Lisa shares her personal experience of struggling with self-imposed expectations and offers guidance on how to break free and achieve a more authentic life.
7 Feb 2023
Building a System for Effective and Purposeful Classroom Visits Part 2: Getting them Done!
Education expert, Karen L. Mapp, shares practical strategies for balancing classroom visits to maximize impact and achieve purposeful interactions with students and teachers.
24 Jan 2023
Building a System for Effective and Purposeful Classroom Visits Part 1: Clarity of Purpose
Instructional leader, Dr. Todd Whitaker, shares strategies to build a clear classroom visit system, ensuring effective and purposeful visits that drive instructional improvement.
16 Jan 2023
Effective Leadership: Redefining Success
Education leader Liz reveals a step-by-step process for redefining success and achieving personal fulfillment in her leadership role.
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