Every school runs professional development days. Almost no school runs them well. If you have ever watched your staff check their phones under the table during a PD session, scroll through emails while a presenter reads from slides, or heard the whispered complaint that this could have been an email, you already know the problem. Most PD days waste the single most valuable resource your school has: the undivided attention of your entire staff in one room for one day.   Resear

Reinforcing clarity is the fourth and final discipline of Patrick Lencioni's organisational health model. In The Advantage, Lencioni argues that once a leadership team has built cohesion, created clarity, and overcommunicated that clarity, it must embed those answers into the organisation's human systems. Every process that involves people, from hiring to firing, from performance management to compensation, must be designed to reinforce what the organisation has determined is

The deputy to principal transition is one of the most underestimated leadership shifts in education. You have been preparing for this role for years. You know the school. You know the staff. You know the students. You have sat in every meeting, managed every crisis your principal handed you, and told yourself that when it was your turn, you would be ready.   Then you get the role, and within weeks you realise that everything you thought you knew about the principalship was th

If you are planning a leadership team offsite and something in your gut tells you it might not deliver, trust that instinct. Most offsites fail. Not because of bad intentions, but because of predictable, avoidable mistakes that organisations keep making year after year.   Research from Harvard Business Review confirms what most leaders already suspect: team strategy offsite meetings are expensive and time consuming, and the benefits can be short lived when team members move b

Introduction   The American healthcare industry generates over $4.5 trillion annually and employs more than 22 million people, making it the largest sector of the U.S. economy. Yet this massive industry faces unprecedented leadership challenges. Hospital CEO turnover reached 18% in recent years, physician burnout affects over 60% of clinicians, and the constant pressure to deliver better patient outcomes while managing tighter margins has never been more intense.   For health

If you are a principal or school leader looking at team assessments for your next professional development day, you have probably come across both Working Genius and DISC. Both are popular, both are well regarded, and both promise to improve how your team works together. But they are fundamentally different tools that measure different things, and choosing the wrong one for your school's specific situation is a waste of your limited PD budget.   Working Genius, created by Pat