Episode 114: 7 Ways To Turn Encouragement Into Your Superpower
The Private School Leader Podcast
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Show Notes
If you could pick one superpower, what would it be?
A recent survey asked people to name their most desirable superpower and the top ten results were: Invisibility, Teleportation, Mind Reading, Super Strength, Time Travel, Healing/Regeneration, Flight, Super Intelligence, Super Speed and Telekinesis.
The superpower that I want the most is Teleportation. Just imagine being in a meeting with a grumpy parent and you could teleport yourself to your favorite beach!
Well, as much as I wish that I could grant you the ability to read minds or travel through time, I can’t. However, on today’s episode of The Private School Leader Podcast, I am going to teach you 7 Ways To Turn Encouragement Into Your Superpower!
I hope that you will listen to the podcast for your weekly dose of motivation, inspiration and PD. Thanks so much for listening and thanks for making a difference!
Mark Minkus
Being a private school leader is a VERY difficult job. You have to make hundreds of decisions every day, and you have to keep everyone safe, increase enrollment, keep the parents happy, keep the board happy, motivate the teachers, deal with student discipline, beat last year’s test scores and come in under budget.
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TRANSCRIPT:
• Welcome to the Private School Leader podcast, where private school leaders learn how to thrive and not just survive as they serve and lead their schools. • I strongly believe that it is possible to have a long and happy and fulfilling career as a private school leader. And my passion is to help you figure out exactly how to do just that right here on the Private School Leader podcast. And I'm your host, Mark Menkus. • • • So I want to start today's episode with kind of a really • strange question. • • • And • • • is it, uh, this is the question. If you could pick any superpower • • that you would have for the rest of your life, which one would it be? If you could pick any superpower, • • • and, you know, I did a search on this, and when they ask people this question, • • • • • in order, here are the top 10. Invisibility, teleportation, mind reading, • super strength, time travel, regeneration, flight, superintelligence, • super speed, • • and telekinesis. • • So I don't know if I named the superpower that you would pick, • • • but for me, I think I would pick teleportation. • • • • And just the idea of being in a meeting • • that I don't want to be in, • and then I could teleport to a beach. • • That sounds pretty amazing. Um, and so sometimes as private school leaders, we get ourselves into situations where • • • we're in a meeting or, um, in a situation where we just wish we could teleport out of there. And if we end up on a beach, • all the better. So if you could pick a superpower, which one, uh, would it be? • • Well, on today's episode, what I want to do • • is to help you see how you can turn encouragement into your superpower. • • • And the way we're going to do that is there's a book written by Jordan Montgomery that's called the Art of Encouragement. How to Lead Teams, Spread Love, and Serve from the Heart. • • And we're going to take a look at some of the key • • • • • principles, uh, • • • the key takeaways from this book, and apply it to you specifically as a private school leader. And so, on today's episode of the Private School Leader podcast, we're going to talk about how to turn encouragement into your superpower. • • • •
I want to help you have a better second half of your school year
And before we jump into that, you know, if you're listening to this in real time, • it's near the end of the year. • • And when we come to the end of a year, we typically look back and we look forward. We kind of reflect on the first half of the school year that started back in August, • • and we think about the second half of the school year, • • and then we also think about new Year's Day and New Year's resolutions and this is the year that we're going to blank. • • • • Well, I want to • help you • • fill in that blank. • • • And there's really two ways that I want to help you • • because • • I want to help you have a better second half of your school year than you did the first half. And I want to set you up to be built to last. And I want to help you have that long and happy and fulfilling career that I'm always talking about. • And so there's two things that you can check out. One is Thrive Academy. It's an online digital course that will take you step by step, strategy by strategy, through everything that I've learned over my 33