Be The Leader You Deserve – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode I check in with all of you, share updates and discuss the importance of leaders giving themself grace.

In this episode I chat with Connor Kem, principal of Lake Mills Elementary School, located in Lake Mills, Iowa. Connor is a relationship driven, high energy, and goal focused principal who understands the importance of high expectations for his students, staff and himself. Connor discusses the importance of SEL for staff and shares ideas for how to build resiliency, including Full Value Contracts and High Five Fridays.

In this episode I chat with Ryan Smith, Principal of Dieck Elementary located in Swartz Creek, Michigan who prides himself on being a Restorative Minded & Trauma Informed Leader. Ryan shares his journey as a new principal and important moves all new administrators must take to be successful. Ryan also shares insight about ways to engage in continuous growth as a leader including ideas he gained from The Cultures of Thinking.

In today’s episode, we discussed the difference between being a manager versus a transformational leader and provided you with practical strategies to infuse fun in the workplace. For your convenience, we also linked the assessment we discussed in the show:

Manager vs. Transformational Leader Assessment

Also, check out our new release: C3- Creating and Cultivating the Culture You Deserve!

In today’s episode, we discussed the correlation between equity and teacher burnout and provided you with practical strategies to make sure your staff members feel appreciated. For your convenience, we have linked the following: Appreciation tag for St. Patrick's Day The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace C3: Creating and Cultivating the Culture You Deserve (Coming Monday 2/22)

In today’s episode, we discussed a variety of surveys and assessments you and your staff can use to determine the level of teacher burnout in your building to determine if you are lightly toasted or have 3rd degree burn.  The first step is deciding on an assessment tool to use:

• Maslach Burnout Inventory
  
• Professional Quality of Life Scale (PROQOL)
  
• Perceived Stress Scale (PSS)
  
• The Teacher Burnout Scale
  
• The PsyToolkit
  
• Teacher Burnout Survey
  
• Burned In Teacher Survey
  

In today’s episode, we discussed the warning signs of teacher burnout and provided you with strategies to help support teachers inside of the classroom. For your convenience, we have linked a Google Form for analyzing student behavior data here. 

In this episode, we define teacher burnout from the perspective of school leaders and begin to highlight tips for prevention. 

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Here are also links to access Dr. Brene Brown's copy of Dare to Lead, the workbook for leaders, and the assessment if you'd like to know where you stand. 

In this episode, we will highlighted our top 10 leadership take-aways from Season 2 of the podcast. While it is not an all-inclusive list, it is a summary of ideas that really made an impact on our own leadership as we interviewed guests and read through some amazing books. 

In today's episode, we interviewed Molley Rickets president and founder of Incipio Workforce Solutions about recruiting and retaining high quality staff. You won't want to miss some of the ideas she gave to tweak interviews and how to make sure the candidate is in alignment with the organization's core values! 

If you would like to reach out to Mollie for consulting, you can reach her at Molley@incipioworks.com  or https://incipioworks.com/.