Assistant Principal Podcast Five for Friday

Hello colleagues and welcome to the Assistant Principal Podcast. I’m your host Frederick Buskey. The goal of this podcast is to help improve the life and leadership of assistant principals. Today’s episode of Five for Friday recaps the strategic leadership emails for the week of August 29-September 2, 2022. If you already get my daily leadership emails, then I hope you’ll find some added value here and if you don’t already subscribe you can find a link on my home page at frederickbuskey.com. 

We have many new subscribers, so I want to take a minute to emphasize a few points about how to get the most value from the daily email:

1.     Don’t feel like you need to read them every day. Putting pressure on yourself to read every day leads to associating the email with negative emotions and that is counterproductive.

2.     If you are short on time, look at the MVP and think about it on your morning commute (if you aren’t listening to this podcast!)

3.     The ideal way to use the emails:

a.     Make your coffee or drink. 

b.     When you first open your email, find the daily message.

c.     Give yourself five minutes. 

d.     Read the message. 

e.     Reflect on it. 

f.      Most importantly, think about how you can apply the message to your leadership during the day.

4.     I try to write the daily message so that there is something you can use each day.

5.     Bonus: If something really resonates, and you have a few extra moments, hit reply and share with me. The hardest thing about the email is not getting feedback, so if you appreciate what I’m doing, consider connecting with me. If you are consuming this podcast on our YouTube channel, consider leaving a comment.

Recap…

Stories that drove this weeks emails…

Monday:

Good leadership matters. Your leadership matters!

Six dimensions (refer back to episode 1 of the podcast)

Tuesday

MVP: Support new people by building a strong relationship.

What new teachers need

Begin with relationships

Wednesday

MVP: “When a good person is in a bad system, the system will always win.”

·      Don’t stay

·      Aply somewhere else

·      Insulate yourself and unit

Thursday

MVP: Leadership feeling complicated? The essential things are being purpose driven and building relationships.

Friday

Let’s reflect:

·      If you strip everything away, what are the essential elements of your leadership?

·      Do you have a concrete strategy for getting better at any of them?

·      Are you being intentional about growing other leaders?

Takeaway

·      Leadership matters and leadership at every level of the organization matters.

·      Leadership is really hard.

·      But it is also simple: relationships and purpose. Everything else follows from that.

This wraps up this week’s Five for Friday rendition of The Assistant Principal Podcast. Next week we are going to dig into this idea of building relationships, so I hope you’ll join me each day by reading the email or at least listening to this podcast summary.

If you enjoyed today’s show, please subscribe and rate this podcast. 

If you have feedback email me at [email protected]. If you want to learn about what I’m doing to support assistant principals, you can head over to my website at frederickbuskey.com/theassistantprincipal.

I’m Frederick Buskey and I hope you’ll join me next time for the Assistant Principal Podcast. 

Cheers!