Know What Your People Value
Many people in our world feel devalued instead of valued by others, and it harms them deeply. It keeps them from enjoying life and reaching their potential.
Most of you know my story as a recovering gambling addict. It wasn't until I got a round a table, with other like-minded people, that I began to study and discuss words like honesty, humility, trust, accountable, loyal just to name a few from this little yellow combo book that fit in your pocket. I was 30 years old and had never been asked a question like, what are your values? What does it mean to be honest, to be trusted, to be trustworthy? It was a powerful experience. 
There is an old saying, a paper bag doesn't stand up straight. Without values a person is empty and weak.
I had no idea that my lack of values was not just causing me pain internally, it was showing up in ALL of my results. My inability to advance in my career. My failing relationships. My failing finances, personal health and...
Celebrate Monday's: Look How This Charter School Teaches and Celebrates Its Core Values
Hey school leader,
Thank you for being such a valued member of our school leadership community.
I believe culture is the sum of all of the behaviors by the human beings in the organization.
The best way to ensure the behaviors by the humans are focused on the right things are to adopt agreed upon values.
These values cannot just be word on paper. They need to be discussed and defined. They need training and to be communicated daily through the actions of the leaders.
If the values are not followed it's everyone in the organization's job to say so. Not just the person at the top of the organization.
This why I loved visiting Pine Lake Prep as part of our Teacher Leader Consortium this past week. The staff, students and stakeholders spent an incredible amount of time working through an adoption process of their core values.
Setting and changing the culture of a school might be the most important job of a leader as it doesn't matter how strong your...
