Monday Moanin Thoughts # 217 Use These Ingredients For A Successful Opening

Happy mid August 2016 Monday Moanin to all of you. For many of you in the Midwest your initial staff meetings will be the week before Labor Day while some of you have already started the 2016-17 school year. Either way, this recipe is something you can try at any time and enjoy success. It is very simple and doable. Sometimes we may over think plans for opening staff meetings and really all meetings. We may get disappointed and the positive tone we want to set can go flat and miss the mark.  The ingredients are listed in bold below.  Only you and your team can determine the amount of each item needed to have a successful recipe and a positive opening meeting.

•  lead with kindness
•  listen and pay attention
•  have real/ balanced expectations
•  give your staff choices
•  laugh
•  practice collaboration
•  stay in the moment
•  be clear

Good luck and have a great opening.  The following quote from Colleen Saidman Yee is powerful;

‘When you count on a future based result, you’re not living fully in the moment. Expectation can keep you locked in a narrow tunnel with no broader vision. Joy is right here, right now. The key is mindfulness, noticing when your expectations have taken you out of the present and made you unhappy.”