Accelerate Your Performance
Accelerate Your Performance is a weekly podcast hosted by Dr. Janet Pilcher, Managing Director of Studer Education and author of Hardwiring Excellence in Education. Every week, Janet highlights tactical and actionable strategies that leaders in educational organizations can hardwire to meet successful student, service, and people outcomes. Listen now, and you’ll see why it’s ranked by ListenNotes in the top 5% of podcasts worldwide.
As she introduces a variety of pivotal leadership practices from the 9 Pillars of Leadership Excellence, Janet underscores the importance of seamlessly integrating each practice to deliver positive and impactful results. For each leadership practice she introduces, Janet provides a solid foundation and then collaborates with coaching experts to dig deeper and demonstrate its practical application. Janet also interviews leaders and partners who excel at the tactics to hear about their implementation journeys, hurdles they’ve faced, and their notable achievements. To bring it all together, she offers a broader perspective on leadership, interviewing guests about a diverse array of topics on their paths to achieving organizational excellence.
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Accelerate Your Performance
Stay the Course
Clarity in focus is critical for organizations to stay on track in challenging times. As you'll see, our guests today are shining examples of staying the course amid uncertainty and change. In this episode, Dr. Kelly Thompson and Jeff Petersen from Muskego-Norway Schools in Muskego, Wisconsin join us. Kelly serves as Superintendent in the district, and Jeff serves as Assistant Superintendent of Continuous Improvement. Muskego-Norway Schools has consistently improved in parent satisfaction and employee engagement, despite the pandemic. In today's conversation, they discuss what has enabled this success. They also share how they have addressed substitute and staffing challenges this school year as well as how they've grown a culture of meaningfulness for employees.
This episode addresses questions, such as
- How can I maintain focus in difficult times?
- What actions can I take to model enthusiasm for my work?
- How can I create a culture of meaningfulness where employees feel engaged and a sense of purpose in their work?
Recommended Resources: Creating a Culture of Resilience, Communicate Effectively Using the Execution Triangle, Cascading the Building Blocks of Service Excellence, & Cascading Communication