Solving the Board Development Puzzle: the What and the Why
The half-day Zoom governance workshop I presented a couple of weeks ago for 25-some superintendents of a diverse array of districts included a segment on board development. Early in my career I would have been a trifle worried that the …
CABE: An Altruistic Connector Extraordinaire During Covid-19
Fearsome crises like Covid-19 can all too easily paralyze an organization. I’ve seen more than one public/nonprofit organization over the years respond to a threatening situation by hunkering down, circling the wagons, reducing expenditures, and generally going on the defensive. …
King Richard III: A Case For Aggressive Image Building
And therefore since I cannot prove a lover to entertain these fair well-spoken days, I am determined to prove a villain and hate the idle pleasures of these days. Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous….
Ah, King Richard III: how …
CEO-Centric Leadership Targets Are Key to a Solid Board-Superintendent Partnership
Around fifteen years ago I was retained to facilitate a half-day work session involving a school board and its superintendent. In our initial call to discuss the work session objectives, the board president and superintendent agreed that there was one …
Testing a Unique Approach to Board Standing Committees: the Rockford Public Schools Story
As Board president Ken Scrivano, vice president Tim Rollins, and superintendent Ehren Jarrett explain in the video interview we recorded last week, one of the key outcomes of the Rockford (Illinois) Public Schools’ High-Impact Governing Initiative was to put an …
Training a Weak Tool for Boosting Board Performance
David Brooks’ column in the January 1 issue of the New York Times, “We Just Saw How Minds Aren’t Changed,” reminded me of a superintendent coaching session I conducted several weeks ago. Brooks, observing that 2020 was a year …
The Zoom Muzzle Syndrome Redux
My August 6 post at this blog, “Combatting the Zoom Muzzle Syndrome (ZMS),” begins by pointing out that Zoom has proved to be a very effective vehicle for holding virtual work sessions at which participants can reach consensus on complex …
The Change Investment Portfolio: A Practical Tool For Transformational Change Leaders
The November 2 post at this blog features Dr. Khalid Mumin, Superintendent of the Reading School District in Pennsylvania, as a prime example of a new-style K-12 chief executive: the Transformational Change Leader. The post describes 5 key attributes of …
Dr. Khalid Mumin: Transformational Change leader Extraordinaire
The educational leaders reading this blog will definitely want to add Dr. Khalid Mumin’s new book Problem Child (www.WGWPublishing.com/books) to their professional library. Khalid, who serves as Superintendent of the Reading School District, has written a book about …
Don’t Unwittingly Turn Your Board Members Into Victims of Poorly Designed Structure and Process
A superintendent called me recently, asking if I’d be interested in presenting a governance training workshop for her school board. She explained that several board members were coming dangerously close to “micro-managing,” and she wanted them to understand the boundaries …
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