In December, encourage a colleague to pursue transformative learning! Why? Because you’ll be helping a colleague flourish—and helping a colleague flourish actually helps you flourish!
So this month, how can you encourage a colleague to pursue transformative learning?
(1) You can share questions that you’ve found life changing. Here are 2 questions we’ve found helpful: “What’s the real challenge here for you?” and “How is your system perfectly designed to produce this?”
(2) You can share books that helped you grow. Books that helped us grow in 2023 include The Will to Learn, The Culture Map, and How to Work with (Almost) Anyone.
(3) You can share transformative practices, for example, using a personalized flourishing plan, intentionally modeling resilient well-being for students, and using meetings and schoolwide action plans to help others flourish.
(4) You can share a model you’ve found life changing. For us, life-changing models include the 50-40-10 Rule of Happiness and the 4 Disciplines of Organizational Health.
(5) You can share mindsets that have helped you grow and transform. This year we’ve especially benefited from the open mindset, growth mindset, and promotion mindset.
(6) And you can share tools for reflecting on organizational culture, establishing a well-being culture, assessing expected student outcomes, and helping students grow strong in the Lord.
What about you? How do you feel about encouraging a colleague to pursue transformative learning? How can you do this? Who will you encourage?
Bottom line? Flourish by encouraging a colleague to pursue transformative learning!
Michael & Kim
P.S. Even if your ACSI Inspire self-study visit isn’t for 18+ months, what are 10 things you can do right now? You can (1) use new tools that help you and others focus on flourishing, (2) complete a tutorial on flourishing, and (3) get board members to help the head of school to flourish.
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