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2016 BBT Awards for Strategic Excellence in Education

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” Vincent Van Gogh The Benjamin B. Tregoe Awards for Strategic Excellence in Education honors TregoED districts who achieve excellent results through the collaborative use of TregoED processes. Changing the way things are done and opening up the decision-making process Read the full article…

  “If you want to do a few small things right, do them yourself. If you want to do great things and make a big impact, learn to delegate.”  John C. Maxwell, American author Few of us aspire to only accomplish “small things”.  Yet too often this is all that is possible when leaders have trouble Read the full article…

Certainly, anyone in education can identify with Heraclitus’s quote; “change is the one constant that we all face – and yet it is the one thing that many fear.” Change, when just foisted upon us, can cause a torrent of other problems….sort of like when you change one thing on your computer and the next Read the full article…

See the Trees – Fix the Forest

We all know the old saw about not being able to “see the forest for the trees.”  And it is true – sometimes we can get so caught up in details and what is right in front of our face, that we miss overall patterns and the bigger picture. But when problem solving, the opposite Read the full article…

Summertime is a time of transition for all of us in education.  Kids change grades and teachers, teachers change students and activities, administrators change staff members, curriculums and policies.  All of us spend at least some of the summer thinking about the changes that are to come to ensure that those transitions go smoothly. For Read the full article…

In a recent Forbes article, “7 Leadership Skills Most Managers Lack,” the author asserts that not only has today’s workplace changed – so have the expectations and needs of employees.  Centralized, autocratic leadership doesn’t work anymore – people (and here is a shocker) “want to be included and respected at work.”  If this is a Read the full article…

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…for hiring that is!  How do you ensure that you are hiring the best possible person for the job?  Just like making the finest wine, we know we need high-quality ingredients (candidates) and a great process to be able to select the very best for the job. Now Read the full article…

Collaboration produces higher-quality solutions and greater commitment to the outcomes.   When people feel valued and are fully engaged, they have higher levels of job satisfaction and feelings of efficacy.  Yet not all leaders embrace collaboration or use it as fully as they might. In “Collaborative Leadership:  6 Influences that Matter Most”, author Peter DeWitt cites Read the full article…

While it appears that the world (or at least our government) is at a standstill as we wait to see what happens in the next election, in fact, recent action has taken place that will affect our day to day operations in education over the next few years.  The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), signed Read the full article…

Here is a scenario that you may be familiar with.  Trouble is brewing in a local school district.  Like many districts, it is experiencing declining student enrollment. Because of projections, the district is considering closing schools. You can feel the tension growing in the community. Policies and cutbacks at the state level have put increasing Read the full article…