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Strategy Every Day: The Power of Agile Teams
On Wednesday, February 26, Stephanie Rogen and Randall Dunn (head of Latin School of Chicago) facilitated a three-hour workshop on strategy implementation at the 2020 NAIS Annual Conference in Philadelphia. As Randall described at the start of the session, it was a “workshop, not a listen-shop” — while both Stephanie and Randall presented a number of key insights for the attendees, there was also plenty of time for everyone to work collaboratively and brainstorm some actionable ideas that they could pilot when they returned to school. (Click here to access the toolkit that workshop attendees used to guide their work during the session!) Here are some takeaways from the workshop:
Elevate and Float: Roger Brown on Dealing with Disruption
This week, we had the privilege of leading a deep dive workshop with approximately 75 heads of school at AISNE’s Heads Retreat. The setting (Cape Cod) was restful and AISNE staged a wonderful two day retreat that offered real time for reflection, structured work, and organic conversations.
We loved every minute of our work with Heads, and we also loved listening to AISNE’s other guest speaker. He was funny, warm, and he captured beautifully our belief that great leadership and strategy is all about making clear choices about what to do and what not to do.
Return to Preikestolen: Musings on Vision and Strategy
If you’ve read Creating Schools That Thrive (and if not, please do!) you may recall my story of hiking Pulpit Rock (Preikestolen), Norway in March, 2009. The story of the hike became my metaphor for strategic design -- for distilling the language of strategy and helping clients make sense of the process to design and execute strategy.
Taking Our Own Advice
You know the joke about the carpenter's house never being finished or the doctor who doesn't follow her own advice? Last month, in a flurry of work and new engagements, I realized we had the same issue at GLP as the carpenter has with his partially built home. So - in the midst of the heaviest work schedule this year - I called for a one day retreat with the team and planned it much in the same way we would with our clients.