In this quick article, we’ll share two essential reads for new principals. The first is an inward journey into managing your time. The second is an outward journey into understanding your people.
The inward journey is one where you can learn to manage hard and lead easy. The outward journey is one that will help you utilize the appropriate leadership strategies to meet your teachers’ needs.
Inward Journey: Time Management
You must first manage the details before you can lead your people. It’s not trendy to say these days, but an expert manager has her ducks in a row, so she can lead with ease, calm, and prowess.
This begins with mastering your time.
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
William Penn
Time Management For Principals is a long-form article that has the essential strategies, tips, and systems that will not only get you started but will propel you forward.
In this article, you will discover:
- Facts About Principals and Time
- What Are A Principal’s Time Management Priorities?
- Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing
- Thinking in Time Blocks
- Team Bring Forward System
- The Principal’s Office, Meeting with Myself
- Proactive Time Management for Principals
- Questions for Principals
Outward Journey: Readiness For Change
The worst move for a new principal, and maybe even an experienced principal, is to force change on someone or on your entire teaching staff.
“People don’t resist change. They resist being changed!”
Peter Senge
Instead, it’s the priority of the principal to assess the 5 stages of change and determine where the faculty is on the change journey.
This is called readiness for change, and there are specific leadership strategies to use at each level of change.
The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Socrates
In the readiness for change article, you will discover:
- Assessing Readiness for Change
- Readiness for Change Questionnaire
- Readiness for Change Scale
- Principals’ Seminar Research
- Change Readiness Leadership Model
- Organizational Readiness for Change
- Leadership Change Strategies Through the Continuum
