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Keep the Change: Leadership Lessons for Difficult Times

In these challenging times, leadership plays a crucial role in driving change. Learn effective leadership philosophies and strategies to navigate difficulties, empower your team, and achieve your vision. Embrace responsible risk-taking, solicit buy-in, set the tone for change, and celebrate successes. Discover how to handle resistance, hire or create owners within your team, and make a lasting impact. Through inspiring lessons and practical advice, become a heroic leader in a world that demands resilience and adaptability.

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Keep the Change: Leadership Lessons for Difficult Times

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  1. Keep the Change:Leadership Lessons for Difficult Times By Pete Meslin pmeslin@nmusd.us (714) 424-5080

  2. Change is the essential process of life. Mr. Spock

  3. These are unprecedented times for certain. It seems like we reach a new level of unprecedented every couple of months. In this world, you are darned if you do and darned if you do something else. But the costs are too great to chance being darned if you don’t.

  4. What is a leader? You Don’t Have to Be a Hero But You Can be Heroic

  5. If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. In Fierce Conversations By Susan Scott

  6. Who Are You?

  7. VISION • Where do we want to be? • Paint the Picture. • Keep Painting It. • Measure behavior vs. • your core values • your organization’s core values • where you want to be • Use goals as benchmarks toward your vision.

  8. Be on the Lead Elephant

  9. Leadership Philosophies That Work • Responsible Risk-Taking • Assertive not Aggressive • Hard on the Issues, Soft on the People • It’s About the Kids • Process Driven • Fair, Firm, Consistent, & Transparent

  10. You Get What You Tolerate

  11. You Might As Well Post a Sign Like This

  12. Making Change Soliciting “Buy In” • “Boss’s” Support. • H.R. / Classified Personnel • Union Support • The Opinion Leaders • PIO • Your “partners.”

  13. Making Change Setting The Tone • Banned Phrases • Short Term Pain, Long Term Gain • Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone • Showing People You Care • When Things Go Wrong • Leaders Learn • Others Mourn

  14. Making ChangeExpect Resistance • Staff Resistance • School Resistance • School Services Resistance • Resistance From Above • Advice From President Wilson • All Feedback is Good Feedback

  15. F O R-E-V E R

  16. Hire or Create “Owners” • Hiring is perhaps the most important decision you’ll make. • Involve “them” in decisions. • Bring them out of their comfort zones. • Force them to get the answers. • Praise them for completing the task.

  17. Celebrate Successes • As a Motivator!! • Start of School Event • Look Back Occasionally • One on One Compliments • Super Star Awards • A touching story • Share successes • As publicity & as a team-builder

  18. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Teddy Roosevelt

  19. An Important Lesson From Thailand Keep the Change

  20. If this is just a job for you, This is not the job for you!!!

  21. You Might Never Seethe Difference You Made

  22. Thank You

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