We’re continuing with this month’s subject of relationships. Last week, we took a deep dive into your relationship with yourself, which is fundamental to this week’s topic – your relationship with other people. Especially in our professional lives, getting new relationships off to a good start makes life so much easier.
When you meet someone new, you get flooded with first impressions. These early judgments shape the early part of our relationships with new people and they actually have our brains playing all kinds of tricks on us. What we think about a person straight off the bat can actually cloud our reality of working or spending time with someone.
This week on the show, I welcome my first guest, Stacey Smith! It’s been one year since I launched The Empowered Principal Podcast and I could not be more thrilled to be celebrating with one of the most inspiring people I know.
I’m going to be spending the whole month of January going deep into relationships and how to approach all of yours with finesse and grace. Today, I’m going to be discussing how to deal with challenging teachers so you’ve got some time to really absorb this before the holidays.
If there’s one thing that worries us in our role as a school leader, it’s the notion of meeting with erratic and difficult parents. When I think about this topic, one parent comes to my mind. She would scream, shout, and curse us out every chance she got – not pleasant.
I’m in it deep this week. I had to face the music about not reaching a goal I had set for myself and I felt like a complete failure. I was forced into a mental transformation, and I’m not going to lie, it has been super uncomfortable.