Leadership, Character and Congruence

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Being ‘Character Smart’ is Key to Leadership Success

If you are in a leadership position that hires other leaders, your primary focus should be to hire people smarter than you. As Superintendent, I am in the fortunate position of having this opportunity to hire leaders smarter than me. Some might argue that’s a pretty easy target to hit — thank you for that. Although, that might explain why I’m surrounded by some pretty amazing people.

Leadership Goal: To create a leadership team with really smart people — people who push my thinking and provide the necessary conditions for us to make decisions that further the district’s mission.

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Taking A Very Personal Risk

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Learning something new can be exciting — it can also be intimidating. A story I am about to share with you today captures both of these realities.

Several of my blog posts have talked about taking risks — about taking that chance at a new idea or new way of doing something to be better.

It can be uncomfortable. Sometimes, it can be downright frightening.

I’ll start with an example of a fairly low-risk professional learning journey I took last year. I wanted to learn more about racism — what it looks like and how it weaves its way into our language, decisions and actions. I immersed myself in the topic, wrote a few blog entries about it and even shared my learning journey with my Board of Education and others in the school district.

I learned a lot, but I felt pretty safe while doing it. Admitting that I don’t know everything about a topic is usually easy for me, so learning more about racism, while important, wasn’t super risky.

But, there WAS something I worked on last year that was intimidating — something that actually had me doubting myself along my learning journey.

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The Year from 20,000 Feet

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20,000 feet above the earth provides a good overview of the terrain — not a ton of detail, but you get a great perspective of the landscape. I use this analogy when I share an outline of a topic. I suppose I should be saying 6,000 meters but old habits die hard.

Sidney, BC – My Home Town

Which brings me to this final post of the 2022-2023 school year …

This was our year to get back into the ‘groove of school‘ and focus less on the pandemic and its interruptions.

In this post, I am going to share a few ‘20,000 foot’ comments about our ‘groove’. Most are celebratory in nature — but, not all of them.

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