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Leaders, intentionally and consistently take care of staff! Why?
(1) Because taking care of staff helps them flourish.
(2) Because taking care of staff increases the likelihood that they will experience passionate purpose, resilient well-being, and healthy relationships.
(3) Because not taking care of staff increases the likelihood that they will experience passionless drift, fragile ill-being, and unhealthy relationships
(4) Because taking care of staff is a best practice. As Simon Sinek says, “Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.”
How can you intentionally and consistently care for those in your charge? What comes to mind for me includes:
- Creating good conditions in which staff can flourish.
- Creating a Christ-centered work environment that staff need for godly, healthy, productive living.
- Developing and implementing a Well-Being Culture Plan.
- Using a holistic approach with staff.
- Getting staff flourishing by modeling flourishing, asking them to implement a Personalized Flourishing Plan, and creating a vision script of flourishing staff—and then implementing a schoolwide action plan to achieve that vision.
- Being the living curriculum by modeling passionate purpose, resilient well-being, healthy relationships, transformative learning, and helpful resources.
- Giving staff the experience with you that you want them to give to students.
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Question: How intentionally and consistently are you taking care of staff?
- How would you assess your practices?
- How would staff assess your practices?
- If staff demonstrated care for students to the degree you demonstrate care for staff, how would you feel?
- What do you want to KeepImproveStartStop doing?
- What’s 1 thing you can do to enhance your taking care of staff?
Get flourishing!
Michael
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