NU#17 - Leading Teams These Days...

Over the past few months, I have noticed that some of the teams that are working in schools look & sound very different. They are tired… and I mean the kind of tiredness that is in your bones. Depleted. Nothing left in the tank. Running on empty. Hanging on by the skin of their teeth.

I feel confident in sharing my observations with you here because I have the privilege of working in many different buildings. This observation is common in pockets of many of the schools that I visit - not all - but definitely most.

This is not to say that people who are working in other sectors aren’t equally as tired - because I know that they are. It would be irresponsible of me to not acknowledge this. And, certainly some of what I am proposing here is applicable to business, etc...

My repeated observations of tiredness have led me to ask myself some interesting questions about how we are leading and how we are supporting. It really has me thinking. And, I’m beginning to wonder if the “old” way or the “old” rules no longer apply.