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The Private School Leader Podcast

The Private School Leader Podcast exists to help you go from SURVIVING to THRIVING as you lead your school. Do you ever feel lonely and isolated in your role as a private school leader? Do you wish that you could get back to what really energizes you (making a difference in the lives of your students)? Do you want to have a long AND fulfilling career in private school education? Are you an aspiring Head of School and you want to accelerate your leadership growth? If you answered “yes” to any

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Episode 83: Make Sure That You Take Time To Celebrate...

The Private School Leader Podcast ·

2024/05/18

When I get home from an event at school, my wife always asks me the same question. “How did it go?” I usually say the same thing. “It went really well!” Then she always says the same thing. “Well, that is worth celebrating. You put in the same amount of work if the event goes well or if it is a disaster.” This is such an important reminder for every private school leader. We are so busy putting out fires that we rarely pause when something goes really well. We are all about next, next,

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Episode 82: The 8 Keys To Being A More Resilient Leader

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2024/05/11

I strongly believe that the most important trait of a successful private school leader is integrity. I think that resilience is a close second. The word “resilience” has an extremely interesting definition: “the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after exposure to compressive stress.” Think of yourself like a NERF football. Someone squeezes and twists it and then lets it go. The NERF football immediately springs back to its original size and shape. As a private

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Episode 81: The 9 Steps To Having A Difficult...

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2024/05/04

It’s that time of year.You are likely having your year-end conversations with your teachers. Most of them will be positive and upbeat, but a few of them will be difficult. Perhaps you need to speak with one or more of your teachers about performance issues like poor classroom management, not updating the online gradebook, avoiding parents, unkind interactions with colleagues or other unmet expectations. At this time of year, the difficult conversations don’t even have to be performance

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Episode 80: This One Productivity Hack Will Save You...

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2024/04/27

Does the number 1,440 mean anything to you? What about the number 86,400? Well, we each get exactly 1,440 minutes a day. We each get exactly 86,400 seconds a day. As private school leaders, we are so busy. We never have enough hours in the day.We are always trying to catch up. Most of the time, our days are ruled by the tyranny of the urgent. Well, I can’t give you more than 24 hours in a day. But, I can do the next best thing. On today’s episode of the Private School Leader Podcast, I am

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Use The 7-38-55 Rule To Have Better Conversations...

The Private School Leader Podcast ·

2024/04/20

George Bernard Shaw said, “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”As Private School Leaders, effective communication has never been more important. It has also never been more difficult. One effective framework that private school leaders can adopt to improve communication with parents is the “7-38-55 rule.” The 7-38-55 rule, formulated by UCLA psychologist Albert Mehrabian in 1967, suggests that 7 percent of communication is conveyed by our

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Episode 78: Do These 4 Things To Feel Less Stressed...

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2024/04/13

I’m going to tell you something that you already know.You have a VERY stressful job. You must respond to every email, return every phone call, attend every meeting, handle every discipline problem, keep everyone safe, motivate and inspire every teacher, retain every student, beat last year’s test scores, come in under budget, keep every board member happy and keep every parent happy. We all know about our built-in stress response: “fight or flight”. The problem is that “fight or flight” is

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Episode 77: 6 Things That We Need To Stop Doing To...

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2024/04/06

The first stop sign is said to have been erected in Detroit, Michigan in 1915. It was a simple, square, wooden sign with the word "STOP" painted in white letters on a black background.The sign was designed to control traffic at a particularly dangerous intersection where several accidents had occurred. Far too often, stop signs are erected at intersections after someone has gotten seriously or injured in an accident. There are now millions of red, octagonal stop signs all over North

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Episode 76: 6 Ways To Overcome “Isolation In A Fishbowl”

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2024/03/30

I love a good oxymoron.Of course, you know that an oxymoron is a figure of speech that pairs two opposing words. Plastic silverware, Unbiased opinion, Minor miracle, Controlled chaos, Original copy, Near miss, Minor catastrophe, Seriously funny, Small crowd, and my all time favorite oxymoron: jumbo shrimp! As private school leaders, our jobs are often accurately described by an oxymoron: “Isolation in a Fishbowl” We experience loneliness and isolation as we quietly lead our schools. We are

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Episode 75: Stop Inviting Parents Into Your Home...

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2024/03/23

I want to start today’s episode by asking you to use your imagination.First, I need you to think of “that parent”. The one that immediately came to mind will be part of the following scenario: It’s a Tuesday night, around 7:00PM. You are sitting on the couch with your spouse or partner, getting ready to watch an episode of your favorite TV show. You turn to your left. Sitting right next to you on the couch is “that parent”! I apologize for sending a chill down your spine. I can hear what

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Episode 74: Does The Homepage Of Your School’s...

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2024/03/16

There is an old saying: “You can’t judge a book by its cover”.Of course, we understand the meaning. When we meet a person for the first time, we should not make snap judgments about them by their outward appearance. I get it. But, let’s be honest. We do this every day. Some of us used to do it on a Friday night at Blockbuster Video. Most of us do it when we check out the thumbnail images on Netflix, Amazon and YouTube. When we go to the Library or a bookstore, we quite literally judge a

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Episode 73: The 3 Keys To Becoming A More Strategic...

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2024/03/09

I’ve never really been a big fan of strategy games. Games like Connect 4, Battleship, Chess and Risk don’t really interest me. Maybe it is because of all of the strategic thinking and problem solving that I do at school. Maybe my brain needs a break.As private school leaders, it is so easy to get caught up in the day to day. That is just the nature of our job. They “tryanny of the urgent”, “no two days the same” and “playing whack-a-mole with your hair on fire” are phrases that probably

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Episode 72: The 5 Ways That Social Media Is Making...

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2024/03/02

I love ice cream.My favorite flavor is Cow Patty (a mix of chocolate ice cream, chocolate chip, peanut butter and brownie cookie doughs and pieces of chocolate-covered sugar cone), which is a specialty flavor at a dairy near my house. But, there’s an old saying, “Too much of a good thing is a bad thing.” A double scoop cone of ice cream on a warm summer night is a good thing. Eating a gallon of ice cream and feeling really sick is a bad thing. The same thing is true about social

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Episode 71: Do You Treat Your Self Care Like Tylenol...

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2024/02/24

Your day starts before your alarm goes off.You wake up early because you are stressed out about a meeting that you have that afternoon. Your phone starts dinging with texts from two teachers calling off sick. The snow has stopped, but the parking lot needs to be plowed. You are going to open on time, but the guy that plows your parking lot just called and says that his truck has a dead battery. You haven’t even left your house yet and you are thinking “Here we go again……” Then you arrive

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Episode 70: Have Better Meetings With Upset Parents...

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2024/02/17

Sometimes I think that adults and children aren't all that different. Kids and adults both crave predictability and support, but we also like to have fun. Adults want people to listen to us when we talk. Kids do too. Adults are happiest when we feel safe. That's true for kids too. You may have heard of The 4 S's of Secure Attachment, by Daniel Siegel, as explained in his book The Power of Showing Up Kids want to feel safe, seen, soothed and secure. Adults are not that different. The parents

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Episode 69: The 8 Keys To Improving Your Relationship...

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2024/02/10

Zelmyra and Herbert grew up as best friends in rural North Carolina. The fell in love and got married on May 13, 1924 86 years and 290 days later, Herbert passed away in 2011. Zelmyra and Herbert Fisher hold the Guinness World Record for the longest marriage ever! Their marriage held up through “the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement and 15 presidential administrations. As you might expect, they were asked what is the secret to having

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Episode 68: 6 Ways To Make Better Decisions In High...

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2024/02/03

Have you ever made a decision that you looked back on and asked yourself, “What was I thinking?” I don’t know about you, but that has definitely happened to me and it is definitely not a good feeling. In the moment, we thought that we were making an informed, logical decision that was just dripping with common sense. But there is a reason that they say “hindsight is 20/20” and some of our decisions make us look foolish, fill us with regret and make us vow to do better the next time. As

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Episode 67: The Surprising Truth About What Really...

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2024/01/27

Why do people do what they do? What drives behavior? Why do some people train for a marathon for a year and then run it? Why do some people go to jobs that they hate, year after year for 50 years? Why do some people, in the same organization, work really hard, while others do as little as possible? Why do people do what they do? One word: motivation. During the industrial age, people were motivated by the model of the carrot (reward the behavior that you want) and the stick (punish the

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Episode 66: 7 Important Things To Remember As You...

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2024/01/20

As private school leaders we do a great job remembering certain things. We can remember the names of all of the kids in our school. We can remember a complicated bell schedule. We can even remember when the 3rd Grade teacher’s mom is having surgery. Unfortunately, we also have a really hard time remembering other things. We forget to take care of ourselves. We forget that we don’t have to get it right every single time. We forget that we don’t have to let the school take over our evenings

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Episode 65: Business Made Simple For Non-financial...

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2024/01/13

I want to tell you something that not too many people know about me. When I first went to college, I earned an Associate’s Degree in Business administration. Freshman year was when I got my lowest grade in all of my years of college: a D in Accounting 101. Not great. My weakest areas as a school leader are probably Finance and Budget Creation. Don’t get me wrong, I can get by. I made it work for 21 years as a Head of School. We always made payroll, the lights stayed on, we raised money, we

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Episode 64: The Best Leaders Avoid These 12...

The Private School Leader Podcast ·

2024/01/06

I want to preview today’s episode by sharing a quote and a definition. The quote: George Bernard Shaw once said: “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” The definition: Il·lu·sion (/iˈlo͞oZH(ə)n/) noun a thing that is or is likely to be wrongly perceived or interpreted by the senses. We’ve all been there. We wrap up a meeting with a parent or a teacher and we think to ourselves: “That went really well!” “We were definitely on the same page.” “I

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