“Stress – the confusion created when the mind must override the body’s basic desire to choke the living daylights out of someone or something that is causing the stress” Whilst the quote is amusing, its underlines a serious situation facing many workplaces and industries, particularly teaching, around the world. At its root, stress is our…
What Gives You Joy?
In a previous post I created an animation to share some key takeouts from a keynote Brendan Spillane presented at the NZPF Conference. In that post I shared some general leadership concepts that relate to vision and taking stock. Whilst I found those messages important and of great interest, what really struck a chord with…
Labour Day – Celebrating Workers
Millionaire Techies, TIME and Education – A Grrr Moment
I like to believe the best in people, and I like to try to find the strengths and positives in most situations. Today, however, I am struggling to find anything strength based or positive about TIME magazines cover due for release in the US on November 3. It is currently available online. Quite frankly, its…
Change – To Be Embraced Not Feared
This is part three in a series inspired by Richard Gerver who presented at the NZPF Conference. Todays post are key takeouts from the keynote ‘Change belongs to those who prepare for it’. You can read part one on “What our students need’ here, and part two on ‘Finding the passion in education’ here. Leading change…
Oestrogen May Be the Answer
I have thus far refrained from commenting on the Labour leadership race. Not because I am not interested but because I am a bit over politics. I am surprised more are not ‘over it’, after the disaster that was the so called Election, the mess that was #dirtypolitics and the lack of cohesive team work…
Leadership Loneliness
Leadership Loneliness I met with a colleague today. Call it a critical friend session, sharing of ideas, solving of all things to do with writing in classrooms and senseless data collection and of course, an opportunity to share and offload. Speaking of senseless data collection, anyone else find the weeks at school issue here in…
Leading In Complex Times
Todays post was inspired by a keynote at the NZPF Conference by Brendan Spillane. Brendan is an ex teacher, principal and is well known for his work as an executive coach. He was our final keynote, and they choose him well. I have read some of his work and although I had heard of him,…
Visual Goal Setting
This is my fourth post inspired by the NZPF conference in Invercargill. The previous posts are; “Fifty Shades of Green‘, ‘Finding the Passion in Education‘, and ‘What do our Students Need?‘. Todays post was inspired by Patti Dobrowolski, TedEx speaker and presenter extraordinarie (well, in my eyes). Patti led delegates through the Visual Goal…
Finding the Passion in Education – Richard Gerver part 2:
Infographic number 2, based on the workshop I attended at the NZPF Conference, run by Richard Gerver. You can find part 1, ‘On What Students Need’, here. Education is the kind of profession, in my opinion, where all teachers enter with the distinct belief and desire that they are there to make a difference. I have…
