Tag: #LeadershipDevelopment
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The Reframe
A participant wrote something in her closing reflection that I haven’t stopped thinking about. She wasn’t a learning and development professional. She was a classroom teacher, sitting in a two-day professional learning session, answering a routine end-of-training prompt: What are your key takeaways? She wrote this: “Increasing rigor isn’t about making the course harder. It’s…
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Jumpstarting Organizational Improvement with 90-Day Plans
In January 2022, I wrote down a goal: run the Chicago Marathon that October. I had run 13.1 miles exactly once in my life. I didn’t need a five-year vision. I didn’t need an elaborate planning document. I needed a clear outcome, a focused strategy, and a set of specific actions I could monitor week…
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What K-12 Got Right About Leadership Development That Corporate America Is Still Figuring Out.
The last corporate leadership workshop I attended had a breakout session on psychological safety. The facilitator called it a breakthrough concept. I smiled — because I’d spent the better part of two decades as a school principal, building it into every staff meeting, every coaching cycle, and every difficult conversation with a struggling teacher. Education…