S3: Unleashing Your People (Intro to Season 3)

S3: Unleashing Your People (Intro to Season 3)

Author: Matt Foster November 6, 2018 Duration: 5:00
This season is about your people. Over a decade ago in the Harvard Business Review, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras wrote, “Executives spend too much time drafting, wordsmithing, and redrafting vision statements, mission statements, values statements, purpose statements, aspiration statements, and so on. They spend nowhere near enough time trying to align their organizations with the values and visions already in place." Topics in this introduction include: -- Removing Restraints that Limit -- Propensity to Complexity -- Brains Need Simplicity -- Overview of Research on 40 School Districts -- An Actionable Definition of Integrity -- Coming Topics such as the Amygdala, Environments that Matter, Builders of Learning Systems, and Crafters of Learning Cultures

Matt Foster hosts Mafost Mashup, a podcast that translates sharp business and marketing principles into actionable strategies for school leaders. It’s built on the idea that the core challenges of running a school-building a thriving culture, motivating people, and driving meaningful impact-are fundamentally leadership and operational issues. Each episode serves as a mashup of proven concepts from the commercial world, rethought for the unique environment of education. You’ll hear practical, often unconventional, approaches to the daily work of principals and administrators, all aimed at fostering better learning environments. The conversations move beyond theory into the nitty-gritty of implementation, focusing on the human elements that make or break any initiative. For those who lead schools, this podcast provides a steady stream of ideas to refine their practice, engage their teams, and ultimately improve their institutions. It’s a companion for thoughtful leaders who believe that running a school well requires both heart and a keen operational mind. Dive into the Mafost Mashup for perspectives that are directly applicable to the complex, rewarding work of educational leadership.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 100

Mafost Mashup
Podcast Episodes
Staying Focused as a School [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 13:00
If you’ve sat behind the principal’s desk for more than 6 hours, you know it’s difficult, and in some cases impossible, to stay focused on any single task. Magnify that challenge across days, weeks, and semesters, and yo…
Houston, We've Had A Problem [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 11:00
Problem-Solving on Teams is not as easy as it looks. Teacher teams, school leadership teams, and district leadership teams can get distracted by sophisticated problems. In this episode, you'll find the role leaders can p…
Bonus: Say No This Summer [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:42
Bonus Episode: Saying No This Summer. It really is the only way to open the space for improvement. Why must we say no? How does it benefit the school? Get the monthly article at mafost.blog Need help with a topic? Have a…
How To Increase Your School Leadership Network (Blog Crawl) [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:48
What is a blog crawl? This strategy will increase your school leadership network, your professional learning, and your contribution to the profession. A blog crawl is a great way for school leaders and principals to coll…
How to Scale A/B Testing in Your School [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 15:25
This is the single most important strategy to improve learning in any school, and here's a simple 3 step process for scaling A/B Testing (split testing) in your school. Plus: - The Fallacy of Waiting on Proof - - John Ha…
5+ Strategies: How to Jump Start the Next School Year [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 13:33
Now is the time to jump start the next school year. Here are 5 strategies to help you with this, plus bonus ideas from a few friends. School Leadership Strategies in this episode: Plan Out Your Summer Collaborations. Add…
Bonus: Action and the Planning Fallacy [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 3:37
In this bonus episode, we briefly look into the planning fallacy and why it makes action so difficult for strategic plans or improvement plans.
5 Ways to Initiate Change in School Culture [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 10:23
It takes more than spreading the narrative, using social media, or creating a "brand" to make change happen in school culture. As a matter of fact, there are three categories for leadership behaviors that can impact scho…
6 Tactics for Empowering Your School [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 9:46
Let's get concrete on the topic of empowerment. Here are 6 ways to empower your teachers, teams, and staff members. Download the research for this episode at mafost.com/mashup/