Reawakening the Leader in You!

A Reflective Perspective

Five Strategies for Achieving Work-Life Balance

Three Characteristics of Great Work

Strategic Thinking

Work-Life Balance

Integrating

Identifying what you really want in each area of your life and

designing a space in which you can accomplish those goals in

an integrated way.

Work-Life Balance

Narrowing

Deciding to “clean your mental cabinet” by delegating or dropping certain tasks, goals, expectations, relationships, commitments, and

obligations and by making choices so that you can focus on what is really

important to you.

Work-Life Balance

Moderating

Spending the right amount of time in each area of your life

instead of trying to do everything perfectly.

Work-Life Balance

Sequencing

Setting priorities and deciding what do do first, second, and

so on, so that you achieve your goals.

Work-Life Balance

Adding Resources

Identifying and finding the resources you need to

accomplish your work more quickly and to manage

multiple projects.

Work-Life Balance

IntegratingNarrowingModeratingSequencing

Adding Resources

Great Work

You are highly competent and effective

at what you do.

Great Work

The work expresses your ethical values and is

aligned to your mission in life.

Great Work

The work gives a pleasing sense of

engagement – in a word, joy.

Food for thought

Leaders may be good technically and feel deeply about their responsibility to

their schools. But if they

don’t find joy in their work, they burn out; it’s just too

hard.

Strategic Thinking(Shifts)

From strategic planning to strategic thinking.

From strategic plans to strategic roadmaps, based on strategic intent.

From strategy as a board-led

activity to strategy making as an administration-led activity.

Strategic Thinking(With A Consultative School Board Model)

1. Thorough data-driven environmental analysis by

administration;

2. Board and administration frame strategic issues;

3. Administration develops strategies;

4. Board vets and approves strategies;

5. Administration implements; and

6. Board monitors.

Strategic Thinking

Strategy is not about turning uncertainty into certainty; no choice made today can make future uncertainty go away.

Strategy means making the best choices you can make today and

then being responsive when things shift.