Employee Onboarding for Next Year: It’s already started. Are you ready?

By Michael Russell & Meredith Monk Ford This past February, I had the opportunity to present at the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) annual conference with five fellow members of last year’s Aspiring Heads Fellowship [1], sharing our findings about how independent schools view their current onboarding processes. It

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Reflections on our E.E. Ford Leadership Grant

By Meredith Ford and Liz Kornheiser When we first embarked on our Edward E. Ford Foundation Leadership Grant project in 2018, our intention was to enhance the Folio process and experience in a way that would help our schools attract and retain the best teachers. The hypothesis was, and remains,

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Using the Eisenhower Matrix to improve your team

  Urgent Not Urgent Important Quadrant I — Do/Reduce Crisis Deadline Work Pressing Problems Quadrant II — Schedule Long Term Planning, Strategic Work Relationship Building Personal Growth Not Important Quadrant III — Delegate Interruptions Email Scheduling Quadrant IV — Delete/Eliminate Trivial, Busy Work Meetings without agendas   In a 1954

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