Five Wishes For Your New Year!
In the spirit of “pentelemental” systems thinking – that is, any successful system has to have at least five elements – may you and yours[…]
PEACE In Leadership
One of my mentors, Sr. Gertrude Foley, passed on in June of 2023. One of my most favorite discussions with her centered around the leadership[…]
Setting Goals for the New Year? You Might Want to Set Up The System Instead
As a year ends, or a new one begins, it’s not uncommon for sales team members to go through an exercise of analyzing their respective[…]
Five Things Your Competitor Schools’ Administrative Teams Are Doing Now
As our calendar year rapidly comes to a close, I’ve heard from a number of schools who are lamenting the fact that enrollment is down[…]
The System of Our Salvation
When I worked for the Office for Catholic Schools at a Diocese, I had a wonderful supervisor who became a mentor to me. She was[…]
The Starfish Principle
I’m pretty excited about this article, since it’s a concept I thought of in 2018 when I started using Michael Hyatt’s Full Focus Planner to[…]
The Five Essential Elements of a Christ-Centered School
Several years ago, I attended a regional meeting of schools that are members of the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI), and picked up a[…]
5 Steps to Successful Process Improvement
There is a famous quotation attributed to Albert Einstein that goes, “We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when[…]
5 Tips for a Successful Fundraising Event Invitation
I ran across this article from the Andrea Brody Design Network. In it, Andrea says that she attended a Webinar titled “Plan a Successful Fundraising[…]