During April, help 1 colleague experience even healthier relationships! Why? Because helping a colleague develop even healthier relationships helps both you and your colleague to get flourishing.
How can you help a colleague develop even healthier relationships? What comes to mind for us includes:
(1) Praying for a colleague to develop even healthier relationships.
(2) Introducing your colleague to a counterpart in another international Christian school.
(3) Inviting your colleague to eat lunch with you.
(4) Modeling transparency, vulnerability, healthy conflict, commitment, accountability, and an appreciation for different cultural backgrounds.
(5) Sharing that human beings need 4 types of relational nutrients.
(6) Suggesting books you’ve found helpful (Emotionally Healthy Spirituality, Crucial Conversations, The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, and Radical Candor).
(7) Asking questions, for example: Why would a reasonable, rational, decent person do that? What’s the real challenge here for you?
(8) Sharing with a colleague how you used Quick Win to develop a plan for even healthier relationships.
(9) Encouraging a colleague (possibly a leader) to consider developing an Organizational Culture Map that describes your school culture in terms of values and practices.
Here are some blog posts related to healthy relationships:
- We can flourish without experiencing healthy relationships, right?
- What are 4 characteristics of healthy relationships between students?
- Staff, what are 6 characteristics of healthy relationships with colleagues?
- Leaders, how healthy is your relationship with your international Christian school board?
Bottom line? Get flourishing by helping 1 colleague develop even healthier relationships!
Get flourishing!
Michael & Kim Essenburg
P.S. Take full advantage of your ACSI Inspire self-study and visit! Use a tutorial to get everyone on the same page, have everyone use a personalized flourishing plan, start ahead of time, use the self-study process to help others get flourishing, create and implement a separate action plan on getting flourishing, and conclude your ACSI Inspire self-study visit effectively.
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