Education Consultant

Empathy – empathy is sympathy with a little more effort.  Effective leaders exhibit great empathy for the people they work with.   These are the leaders who are in the trenches with their people.. When problems arise, effective leaders take responsibility for the final decision and the outcome. After all leaders make the decision to do or not do something. If the leader is not making the decision overtly, they are making it covertly.  I have often heard leaders say, “I didn’t know that was going on in my school or organization. The problem with that statement is, “it is your job to know what is going on”. Not knowing does not absorb the leader from their responsibility to know. It is the leaders job to know what is going on in his/her school/organization.  Understanding empathy, helps the leader better protect their people from unforeseen issues that might rise. Empathetic leaders understand that when things go well, the leader gets credit; and when thin...

We would all love to have all of our ideas garner the results we want, but that simply does not happen. So, when things go wrong, how do you deal with the setback, the disappointment, and the adversity? One thing effective leaders do is give him/herself permission to fail. Be ready for the fall because you know it is coming, you just don’t know when.  Any person who has accomplished anything in life has failed multiple times. Dr. Seuss failed twenty seven times before his hit book; “The Cat in the Hat” was accepted. What would have happened if he had stopped at the tenth, twentieth, or twenty- fifth failures? It is always those things that we cannot anticipate that knock us down the hardest.  When leaders fall, the greatest mistake they make is to hurry and try to get up again, to try to get back on top, to get back to where hey were. When you fall down, stay there a minute, catch your breath, and think.  Ask yourself some important questions: What could I have...