October 04, 2018

Why You Can’t Lead Alone

11 minutes

What’s the biggest mistake homeschool leaders make? It’s trying to be a lone wolf and do everything by yourself.

In today’s podcast Carol Topp interviews homeschool leader Sheri Payne from Virginia. Sheri is the Director of Leader Support for HEAV, the Home Education Association of Virginia. She shares advice on many topics including the mistakes she made in leading a homeschool organization.

In this episode of the HomeschoolCPA podcast, Carol Topp and Sheri discuss:

Her biggest mistake as a leader: doing everything by herself

The importance of getting a team

Finding people who are good in areas you lack

Peace-making and conflict resolution

Training you successor and deliberately mentoring leaders

My favorite quote from Sheri in this episode is “I can’t be a lone wolf because I have deficiencies in my personality.”

Be sure to tune into the other HomeschoolCPA podcast episodes with Sheri Payne including:

How to Start a Virtual Homeschool Co-op

Deliberately Mentoring Leaders. How Do You Do It?

In the podcast, Carol mentioned the I Am a Homeschool Group Leader Facebook Group. It is a closed group (meaning you have to request to join) of 530 homeschool leaders from across the USA. You can join us here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/72534255742/

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Help your homeschool group get organized and run smoothly!

Author and homeschool advisor, Carol Topp, CPA, has created a Homeschool Organization Board Manual. It is a template to create a board member binder. It has:

A list of important documents to keep in your binder

Section dividers so you can organize the important papers

Tools to help you run your meetings smoothly including

A sample agenda that you can use over and over again

A calendar of board meetings

But this is more than just a few cover sheets for your binder. It is also a 55-page board training manual with helpful articles on: