Your School’s Culture Influences Staff Productivity

Cultivating staff engagement needs to be part of your school’s culture. Engaged staff members are more productive. A high level of productivity is one more way culture can help to differentiate your school. High productivity also contributes to increased sustainability and mission effectiveness.

Here are a few steps you can take to cultivate staff engagement:

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The Best Differentiator: Culture

What makes your school unique? The answers we hear are oldest parochial school in the area, first school to offer X, only school on the southside, safe campus, caring teachers, lowest price, faith based, and the biggest school serving a specific group or faith tradition.

Our focus is helping struggling parochial, faith-based, and private schools […]

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The Culture of Better

When your parochial school focuses on making things better, loss avoidance is unnecessary. […]

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Hurdles to Innovation

There are four hurdles faced by every innovation. Which one is keeping your parochial school from stepping forward? […]

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It Is What Happens After that Matters

Things do go wrong and seldom in ways you anticipated. […]

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How to Recover from Trouble

Every parochial school experiences trouble from time-to-time. Knowing how to recover prevents the problem from growing, becoming persistent, or threatening survival. […]

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Culture of Generosity

Successful fundraising depends on a culture of generosity inside a parochial school. Who is responsible for creating that culture? In fact, every principal is the cultural attaché for his or her organization. […]

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Is Your Board Willing to Evaluate Itself?

Evaluations are good. They help us discover our opportunities for growth. Why are parochial school boards reluctant to self-evaluate or submit to evaluation? […]

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Create the Vision

It is March and many parochial schools are beginning to plan and budget for the next school year. How will you make next year more successful? […]

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Best Practices Versus Being Successful

Rarely is someone fired for using best practices. Our heroes and role models are people who break new ground and use unproven methods. […]

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