Episode 99: Do You Want Happier Parents? STOP Doing These 4 Things
The Private School Leader Podcast
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Show Notes
I want to ask you a question.
Are the parents at your school happy?
I can hear what you are thinking: “It depends on which parent, the time of day, depends on if report cards just came out, if their kid is getting enough playing time on the soccer team, etc., etc.”
So, let me ask you an easier question. Do you want happier parents?
Of course you do!
On today’s episode of the Private School Leader Podcast, I am going to tell you how you can have happier parents at your school. You just have to stop doing 4 things.
Thank you for listening to the podcast every week. You are making a difference in the lives of the students, teachers and parents at your school. I know that what you do is difficult, exhausting and lonely. Your hard work inspires me to keep making weekly content to try to encourage and inspire you as you serve your school.
Thanks for all you do!
Mark Minkus
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I want to say thank you for listening to the podcast by giving you a FREE GIFT. It is called The 7 Steps To Having Successful Meetings With Upset Parents. This guide is an 11 page pdf that gives you a step by step plan to have better meetings with the parents at your school. Every good coach has a game plan. Every good teacher has a lesson plan. Too many private school leaders don’t have a plan when they sit down to meet with an upset parent. Well, now you have a PLAN! You can grab this FREE GUIDE at www.theprivateschoolleader.com/meeting
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I want to give you a gift to say “thank you” for listening to the podcast. I have created a FREE guide for you called “5 Strategies To Help You Work With Difficult Parents”. We know that working with parents is part of the job and most of our parents are great, but some of them can be very demanding and emotional and difficult. This guide will give you the tools that you need to build better relationships and have better meetings with the difficult parents at your school. Go to www.theprivateschoolleader.com/parents to grab the guide. Thank you again for listening every week!
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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 Menkes. • So I want to start by asking you a question. • • • Are the parents at your school happy? • • • So let that sink in, and I'll ask you the same question again. Are the parents at your school • happy? • • • • And you probably are thinking, well, • • depends on the parent, depends on the time of day, depends on if report cards just went out. And it depends on a lot of things. • • Whether or not the parents are happy. • • Well, that one's a complicated answer, but I think I have a question that has a pretty simple answer. • • Do you want to have happier parents at your school? • • And of course, the answer is yes. • So on today's episode of the private school leader podcast, I'm going to teach you how to have happier parents at your school • • by showing you the four things that we need to stop doing. So if we stop doing these four things, you'll have happier parents at your school. • •
Thrive Academy is celebrating 100th episode with special sale next week
But before we start that, I just wanted to tell you I'm really excited about something that's coming up next week. And we are on episode 99 of the podcast. And I just want to say a sincere thank you to everyone that's been listening since, um, the beginning. Many of you have come • • and joined along the way, but we're coming up on 100th episode. And to celebrate that, there is going to be a special three day sale on Thrive Academy to celebrate the hundredth episode. And so, • • uh, if you're listening to this in real time, it's a week from now, September 16, 1718 2024. • And the deal is $100 off Thrive academy, and you get seven weeks of office hours instead of six weeks. And so again, that's next week, September 16. 1718. • • $100 off thrive academy and seven weeks of office hours instead of six. You can check out more about [email protected]. thrive and I just want to mention one last thing about that. You know, I say at the top of every episode that I truly believe that you can have a long and happy and fulfilling career as a private school leader. Well, Thrive academy is me taking everything that I've learned over the past 33 years and breaking it down for you into strategies that actually work. And so I'd love for you to check that out and I'd love for you to celebrate with me the hundredth episode and to get this special deal next week. September 16, 1718 $100 off. Check out more at, uh, theprivatesgleiter.com um, • thrive.
Private school leader podcast gives away free guide on keeping parents happy
And while I'm saying thank you, I want to thank you for listening to the podcast by giving you a free guide. And this is called five strategies to help you work with difficult parents. Today's topic is keeping parents happy. And so I thought, what better guide to give you than this? And so we know that working with parents is part of the job and that most of our parents are great, but some of them can be very demanding. But this guide will give you the tools you need to build better relationships and have better meetings with the difficult parents at your school. So if you go to theprivateschool leader.com parents, you can grab this guide. It's a, uh, PDF