Ground your leadership in clarity and purpose with a step-by-step approach to prioritizing what matters most and aligning daily actions with long-term goals.
School leaders: we know you truly have the best job. You get to guide and lead your team to greatness, through new and exciting initiatives, witnessing staff and student growth every day.
Yet, school leaders: we know you truly have the hardest job. We know you encounter a host of competing priorities every day, the heavy weight of responsibility on your shoulders and a long list of indicators to master no matter which evaluation tool supports your practice. I have had the great privilege of journeying with a wide variety of school leaders and one of the most important factors in folks’ success is ensuring their highest priorities stay strong and central amidst a sea of everyone’s needs and next steps. This is where a Page One comes in. What is it?
Your Page One is an accounting of what matters to you most. When you lead from what matters most, you can stand in your greatness. If you return to your Page One frequently (weekly, ideally; quarterly at minimum) and connect your actions to your ideals, you are more likely to achieve your highest goals (and to remember them when overwhelmed by the mountain ahead).
So, to reconnect with what matters most to you as a leader, to recommit to your most deeply held strengths, values, vision, priorities, goals and commitments to excellence, and to reiterate your commitments via a written artifact you can return to revisit your highest order priorities, make yourself a Page One. How do you make one?
First, reflect: what do you want most to achieve this year as a leader? Where have you already succeeded/how far have you come? What next right moves will you make toward greatness?
Next, let’s make one! Click here for a simple, one page template. It is divided into quadrants. In each one, write down the following:
When you have completed the Page One template, commit to when and where you’ll revisit it. Open up your calendar and make yourself an invite that says “Revisit Page One” as frequently as once a week, or once a quarter at minimum.
Remember: your Page One is an accounting of what matters to you most. It’s a singular place where you can quickly recount everything you need to be completely successful. It can instantaneously reground you in what matters most so you can accomplish anything (and everything) and be the leader you want to be!
Ensure your highest level priorities stay strong whatever comes your way this year. Make and commit to your best leader self by creating and revisiting a Page One. RECENT READS FROM CPETLoading... |
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