Leadership’s Future: How Should Teachers Teach?
September 3, 2009 by Miki Saxon
Are you aware of the new teaching approach in middle school English classes that gives kids a say in which books they read?
The approach is known as “reading workshop” and “…students choose their own books, discuss them individually with their teacher and one another, and keep detailed journals about their reading…”
I sent the article to my niece, who alternates between teaching and being a school librarian. She started as a teacher, was driven out of it by internal politics and unreasonable parents, got a Master of Library Science and spent a few years as school librarian and is now back …read more
Is Your Team Diverse Or Just Look It?
April 17, 2009 by Miki Saxon
Shortly after I started writing Leadership Turn I did a post about diversity, ending with this—
“Another way to look at it is that any increased spending on diversity development is an investment and will be more than offset by the increases in innovation, productivity and revenues. If spending $100 results in a bottom line increase of $1000, did you really spend the $100, or did you gain $900? $900 that wouldn’t be there if you hadn’t invested the initial $100.”
How do you define diversity?
True diversity isn’t just diversity of race, gender, creed and country, but what I call the new …read more
You R Who You Hire
March 6, 2009 by Miki Saxon
In a comment Monday Denis asked, “What do the people you hire tell about your leadership style?”
The short answer has been around a long time in one form or another.
Good leaders (managers) hire people smarter than themselves and don’t feel threatened by people who are better at given tasks.
The people you hire tell more about who you are than just your leadership style; they are a reflection of your MAP (mindset, attitude, philosophy™) and your confidence.
No matter what the reality, the more insecure a leader/manager feels the weaker the people he hires.
At lower levels, you find that those less willing …read more
Leading in the digital age
June 28, 2008 by Miki Saxon
Post from Leadership Turn Image credit: Henkster
I frequently disagree with Jack and Suzy Welch in their weekly Business Week column, but in The Connected Leader they offer up good insights as to the effect of the internet on leaders, i.e., bosses, in terms of what it can and can’t do as well as what the leader needs to do.
“The Internet…ushers in a whole new level and scope of employee engagement. Leaders should welcome this development, and most do, but it’s a mistake to treat it lightly. Once employees engage you by speaking out, albeit electronically, they expect to hear …read more