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 Nine Principles ® Framework, 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
Go All In to Improve
In this episode of the Accelerate Your Performance podcast, Dr. Janet Pilcher invites Sergio Mendoza, Superintendent of Burton School District; David Shimer, Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services; and Julissa Leyva, Assistant Superintendent of Student Services, to discuss their improvement journey and the tactics they used to reach successful outcomes in their district. In this episode, Sergio and his team also share about their upcoming presentation at the 2023 Carnegie Summit, where they will discuss the speed at which they were able to implement continuous improvement strategies and how they got them to stick. Today, Julissa, Sergio, and David share their advice with other leaders who are considering committing to the work of continuous improvement.
This episode addresses questions such as:
- How can leaders maintain a "just keep going" attitude in the midst of challenges in the work of continuous improvement?
- What does it take to fearlessly commit to the work of improvement?
- What impact can strategic planning and scorecards have on your improvement journey?
Recommended Resources: Effective Leaders are Consistent, Unrelenting Commitment to Improvement, Improvement & Innovation, & Continuous Improvement: Where Do You Start?