Links Specifically for Leadership
Name and Celebrate Staff Competence
Showing appreciation to your staff and fellow co-workers is a part of a healthy, productive, and encouraging work culture. Here are some options to encourage appreciation and focus on the specific competencies of staff or staff teams that combine to produce your school’s positive outcomes.
- Create a process where staff can nominate each other for staff appreciation
- Create and maintain an ongoing list of assets of your team or workplace — Something everyone can add to and see in the teachers’ common gathering space
- Develop a gratitude board, or employ other strategies to foster a workplace attitude of gratitude, such as the ideas provided here
Leadership Considerations specific to Individual Wellness – Youtube
The four sectors of the compass model Mind, Spirit, Strength and Heart not only contribute to our overall wellness, but also provide guidance on strategies to help build our compassion resilience. This leader talks about how they utilize the four sections with her team to help build individual wellness.
Additional Resources
Link to resources, videos, and tools to learn more about and develop a growth mindset.
A popular and reliable time management approach, “Five Simple Steps That Apply Order to Chaos”
A toolkit from AMA on using appreciative inquiry to foster positive culture, including how to incorporate it into daily work to maintain positivity in your organization.
