Executive coach, Joel Garfinkle, shares five specific strategies that highly-successful business leaders often employ. And those insights are a perfect match for educational leadership, too!

For example, you can increase your team’s engagement and productivity by working on your own confidence in communication, decision-making, and risk-taking. When they see that you are not deterred by failures (as part of the “try, fail, learn, repeat” cycle), they will be better equipped to focus on the end goal instead of being side-tracked and defeated by any bumps along the way.

Simply put, the more comfortable you are with this natural part of the growth process, the more willing your team will be to persist … regardless of the challenges they may face and the problems that inevitably arise with any form of school improvement. And as you have seen from other posts, type of leadership often results in highly effective schools.

BTW, don’t forget that Garfinkle’s article offers four additional strategies that you should find useful as well!