Mafost Mashup

Google uses OKRs to avoid the numbing effects of bureaucratic improvement planning. Your school can use OKRs ( Objectives and Key Results) to take the leaps toward your vision in small concrete steps. You can find details and samples of OKRs under Season 3 at https://mafost.com/mashup

What's in a Name? Quite a bit, it turns out. Should a school work on a brand? What is a brand? What do the top 10 high schools in the U.S. have in common?

This episode includes the following topics:

- Tesla's Quest for a Name

- Nominative Determinism

- Studies on the Impact of Names

- A Tennis Classic

- Top 10 Schools 2018

- Three Types of Values

- Finding Your Something

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How do you celebrate the strengths of your team? This week’s #822chat was on fire again! The tribe is connecting, discussing, and sharing some amazing ideas. The theme for December is "gifts". How to find them. How to celebrate them.

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Can you change practices that have become automatic? What's the difference between an environment where play is encouraged and one in which self-regulation is the norm? How does cognitive embodiment manipulate our judgment? Is it possible to intentionally inspire human brains? What's the difference between supervision and being watched?

Topics Include:

-- Psychology of Perceptions and Manipulation

-- Resistance to Change

-- Emotional Exhaustion

-- Perception is Not Reality

-- Leading With Heart

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The school reflects your confidence and passion. Likewise, it mirrors your fear and insecurity. Embrace your weaknesses, build your strengths, and empower your people.

...and solutions that work! Season 3, Ep.3 connects Ronald Reagon, Ice Cream Shops, and Hillary Clinton to bring you 5+ ways to create change in classrooms. These solutions address 3 powerful challenges to effective change leadership.

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Clarity of Purpose. Educator Burnout and Demoralization. Where do these magnified side effects come from? Who are the Millers? Do you want to take a cruise? And...it is missing, are you missing out, or is it a mission for your school?

Topics in this episode include:

-- Stats on Burnout and Attrition

-- Understanding the Problem

-- Clarity of Purpose

-- Mission Statements in Schools

-- The Millers

-- Bearings & Long Distance Cruising

-- Behavioral Cohesion for School Leaders

-- Magnified Side Effects

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Leading with vulnerability builds trust and creates organizational health. Here are three exercises you can use to shape culture, connect people, and impact learning.

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Season 3 Premiere focuses on busting through the one thing that limits your people in your schools. Topics include:

-- Organizational Health vs. School Culture

-- The Key Ingredient to High Performing Teams

-- Minimizing Politics

-- Difference Between Trust and Confidence

-- How to Lead With Vulnerability

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This season is about your people. Over a decade ago in the Harvard Business Review, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras wrote, “Executives spend too much time drafting, wordsmithing, and redrafting vision statements, mission statements, values statements, purpose statements, aspiration statements, and so on. They spend nowhere near enough time trying to align their organizations with the values and visions already in place."

Topics in this introduction include:

-- Removing Restraints that Limit

-- Propensity to Complexity

-- Brains Need Simplicity

-- Overview of Research on 40 School Districts

-- An Actionable Definition of Integrity

-- Coming Topics such as the Amygdala, Environments that Matter, Builders of Learning Systems, and Crafters of Learning Cultures