leadership

  • The Leadership Triad: Core Behaviours for Success

    The Leadership Triad: Core Behaviours for Success

    Reading Time: 4 minutes Leaders are made, not born. These three behaviours will lay the groundwork to understand yourself and become a better leader. Crave Growth Good leaders want to improve, even when it’s hard. Their moral compass shows them that better leaders help create a positive and inclusive work environment to engage the people…

  • Leadership and Learning under Lockdown

    Reading Time: About 4 minutes In the beginning, I was smug about being an introvert. This “stay at home” thing would be a cinch. I like spending time on my own: thinking, reading, watching, writing. I look forward to the end of the day when I walk up the steps to my front door and…

  • How to Appreciate Straight Talk

    Blunt. Direct. Forthright. Candid. I spent a year in Paris when I was 18. In 1982, the City of Light was full of possibilities for a young woman unafraid to explore. I met many international and French students that year. I was often introduced as “Suzanne – don’t mind her, she’s very blunt”. My 57…

  • Influence Really is That Important

    In my first naive years as a school leader, I didn’t understand the power of influence.  I wasn’t so sure that Dale Carnegie really knew what he was talking about. I used to think that if you told people what to do, then they would do it. I spent very little time reflecting on my leadership…

  • Four Ways to Extend My Digital Leadership

    Digital spaces beckon me. I enjoy quickly scanning my Twitter feed for interesting tidbits. I’ve loved reading about Ontario educators’ #oneword in the Google+ community.  I blog here. Still, I wonder what more I need to do as a leader.  Jennifer Casa-Todd, digital educator, challenged the audience recently with a thought provoking question at a…

  • I Don’t Have Survey Fatigue

    Confession time: my name is Sue and I like doing surveys. Weird, right? I’m the one who actually clicks on the link in a request email and completes all those questions. Cheesy magazine questionnaires, coffee shop service feedback forms, online shopping experiences, I pretty well do them all. I even do workplace surveys. I figure…