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Run a Pre-Mortem to Improve Your Strategic Planning
A Pre-Mortem is a strategic planning activity that imagines a project has failed. This type of thinking helps to identify and mitigate risks early on in the planning phase. Exploring the worst-case...
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How to Build Better Relationships
I stumbled on this post from Jamie Portman about building better relationships. He, in turn, was re-sharing a document from L30 Relational Systems that outlines 33 ideas to think about when valuing...
View ArticleRestart, Reframe or Recast
Let’s unshackle from the present pressures and look ahead to a further horizon. See these as provocations you can use with your teams as you begin to navigate your way through the next few months. How...
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Inspired by an optics metaphor used in ethnography, this mental model explores our perception and understanding of behaviour. Use it as part of your team’s developmental dialogue and process. Seeing...
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How Will Your School Community Share Your Story?
The pandemic experience is an opportunity to create a story to tell future generations. King Lear and Cordelia (Shakespeare, King Lear, Act 4, Scene 7) Francesco Bartolozzi , CC0, via Wikimedia...
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What is on your radar?
Far from the wintry climes of Europe in Australia, our Summer is just getting warmed up. The highest temperature in Australia since 1960 was recorded in Onslow, Western Australia, on Thursday this...
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⏰ The Cost of Interrupted Work
How to make time for great teaching The Grattan Institute’s report Making time for great teaching: How better government policy can help identified that 92% of Australian teachers say they always or...
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How to identify the next step that accelerates your team’s growth
In 1965 a psychologist called Bruce Tuckman was working for the U.S. Navy. He was a member of a small group of researchers at the Naval Medical Research Institute. Their job was to study small group...
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5 Tactics to Decompress and Recover
Recovery Rhythms It’s that time of year again in the Southern Hemisphere. The end of term is fast approaching, and the pressure is mounting. As educators, we often put our wellbeing on the backburner...
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