100 Posts in 100 Days Near the end of yesterday’s post on codependence, I wrote: Clarity and communication come up strongly in several previous posts: yesterday’s post “Independence”, my earlier post “Decisions, Decisions” and a post I wrote back in March 2019 “Empowerment: Moving Beyond Delegation and Establishing Great Teams” are just a few examples.… More #74: Easier Said Than Done
100 Posts in 100 Days The last 2 posts have been about interdependence and independence. Today, I’m continuing to think along this continuum of “dependence” and digging into codependence. Codependence is the state of having excessive reliance on a partner. I’m no expert on the various forms of dependency I have been writing about. Just… More #73: Codependence
100 Posts in 100 Days Yesterday I wrote about interdependence as an important state in schools. The more I think about interdependence, the more I also consider other forms of dependence and how they play out in complex systems. For me, interdependence is worthy of striving for, both individually and in teams. In this… More #72: Independence
100 Posts in 100 Days It was about February or March of 2021 and the world was still navigating pandemic life. I was continuing to work largely from home and leading the development of new approaches to teaching and learning in our school. I was also still thinking about the “word of the year” idea,… More #71: Initial Thoughts on Interdependence
100 Posts in 100 Days Yesterday’s post was about living in the moment with a sense of abundance and appreciation and choosing that over feeling “homesick” and a sense of loss or missing out. I struggled to get my ideas out and coherent. I posted it, knowing I wasn’t really happy with it. So,… More #68: Lessons from a Blackberry
100 Posts in 100 Days Early on in this 100 Posts in 100 Days journey, I wrote about team decision making processes in in Post 18: Decisions, Decisions. In the June 24 The Pulse (Post 55), I quoted Dr. Maya Shanker from her podcast about how we assess the quality of decision making. Just a… More #66: SMEs and Your Team
100 Posts in 100 Days My dad is retired, but he worked as a traveling salesman for over 45. During my childhood, he essentially traveled every other week. When he retired, he added up the number of nights he had stayed in one particular hotel chain. Divided by 365 nights and his stays totaled 16… More #64: SME
100 Posts in 100 Days Yesterday, I posted about living into my core value of integrity, which reminded me of this post from 2019 about leading a group of individuals in a process to identify their core values and write a personal leadership & coaching statement. My leadership statement and my thinking about writing… More #63: Core Values and My Leadership Statement
100 Posts in 100 Days If you’ve been following 100 Posts in 100 Days, then you know I’m on a bit of a roll when it comes to metaphors. It started with sharing some thoughts about coaching & leadership as a string of pearls in Post 48, which led to a follow up about creating… More #58: Leadership Perspective: Playing Ball
100 Posts in 100 Days In Post 52: Making the Most of My Summer Conference, I shared that I was preparing for a professional learning session. I’ve just blinked and it’s over already! During our closing session, we sat in a circle and each participant shared takeaways and commitments as a result of our time… More #57: Holding Space