A true leader wants to be surpassed in knowledge and ability.

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Have you ever had meetings or one-on-one chats with your staff about what will make them successful? Many people think success just happens. We think a plan is needed. This starts with each person creating a list of dreams and goals. Then taking a risk to share these goals with others and listing what is holding each person back from achieving them. Can you imagine how different your school would look if every employee listed just two success goals for the year and how they will reach them and who they will call on for help so those goals are achieved?

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Ah, youth. It's a fickle beast. I keep getting older. And today's
incoming college students keep getting younger and more indecisive
every year. And I know that from recent experience. I just spent
yesterday at a conference meeting with up-and-coming teen leaders from
various high schools around the Kansas City metropolitan area. Two
things to note: 1) kids are a LOT more business-savvy than I was when I
was seventeen and 2) several of them called me "sir". So, it's
official. I'm old.

I'd say a good 95% of the kids I talked to had absolutely no idea
what they wanted to be when they grew up. Not a clue. Nada. Sure,
they'd show the occasional hint of interest occasionally, but most
played it close to the vest.

Do your faculty and staff have friends at work? Do they see each other as professional resources and people to go to in order to solve work-related problems?  There are researchers who are studying the results when employees have personal relationships at work. Some studies show that there is a 50% higher level of employee engagement when an employee has a friend at work.  What have you discovered about employee productivity when they have a friend or colleague to turn to and when they don’t?    

A true leader understands that people don’t change who they are, only how they relate.

A true leader helps others establish their own vision.

A true leader fails again and again and again and again and…

A true leader Motivates, Educates, Navigates, Translates, Orchestrates and Recreates…the delivery is in the acronym.

a) Tell someone what to do and how to do it

b) Hold someone accountable for results

……but NOT BOTH.