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The New Principal Show

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We had a virtual meeting to discuss what everyone is doing in light of COVID-19 in regards to graduation, prom, grades, etc... People from all across Georgia came. This is the recording of our conversation.

Guest Moderators: Dr. Jim Finch, Principal, Mary Persons HS and President of GASSP

Dr. Alan Long, Principal, Jefferson County HS and Incoming Executive Director of GASSP

Dr. Mark Wilson, Principal-Matters

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The Principal Show! E10 High School Principals Virtual Meeting 4/7/20

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We had a virtual meeting to discuss what everyone is doing in light of COVID-19 in regards to graduation, prom, grades, etc... People from all across Georgia came. This is the recording of our conversation. Guest Moderators: Dr. Jim Finch, Principal,...

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Webinar: How to Be an Emotionally Sound Leader

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In this webinar, physician, executive coach and speaker Dr. Leslie Nwoke shares tips and insights on how to be an emotionally sound leader.

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Crisis impacts everyone, but resources such as transportation, reliable childcare, access to healthcare and medication, flexible working arrangements, and food security can make the difference between difficulty and devastation for children and families. School leaders are uniquely positioned with a pandemic like COVID-19 to lead proactive support to meet the needs of vulnerable populations within the community, buffering or mitigating the extent of damage.

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Host a Virtual Coffee/Fika

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In many physical workplaces, having coffee together is a normal part of the day. In Sweden, there is a special name for these coffee breaks: "Fika". Many people wonder if it's possible to replicate these coffee breaks online. This podcast is dedicated to how to do just that. Thanks to Adrian Potter for the inspiration.

Tips for hosting a virtual coffee/fika

SCHEDULE YOUR COFFEE. Unless you're working in a virtual office, you are not going to accidentally bump into each other online like you would near the coffee machine. With a remote team, unless you're working in a virtual office, you've got to schedule your unstructured time together.

USE VIDEO. Use a great video tool so you can see each other. It gives the feeling of all hanging out together in the same room.

KEEP TECHNICAL PROBLEMS TO A MINIMUM. Make sure you have a great internet connection, a quiet background, or a headset so that it's easy to hear each other. Conversations are much smoother when the technology is running smoothly.

BYOB. Bring Your Own Beverage. When we work in an office together, someone usually ensures that there's enough coffee and snacks for everyone there. But online, remote workers have to fend for ourselves and bring our own beverages and snacks. However, this is a great opportunity for getting to know each other. What kind of drinks do your colleagues like? What's the story behind that mug? You'd be surprised what can be learned from simply eating and drinking something together.

USE ICEBREAKERS. Icebreakers are quick questions that help get the conversation started and let you learn something about each other. For example: what are you eating and drinking - and why? What is your favorite coffee treat? Take a picture of your shoes and show others what you're wearing... and there are a ton more. Note: some people are uncomfortable sharing personal information - it should be ok for people to opt out of participating.

PLAY GAMES. Whereas icebreakers are quick questions, games last a little longer and are just as much fun - if not more. Management 3.0 has some great games like Personal Maps or Moving Motivators. Dr. Clue organizes virtual treasure hunts for teams.

GET CREATIVE. Try watching a video together and talking about it. Try a recipe exchange - make someone else's recipe and show it. Talk about your favorite movies, books or music. Try a quiz. And if you dare, try a virtual dance party. Toga party anyone? 😉

Having virtual coffees/fikas is not that hard. We just need a little creativity, a good internet connection, a decent webcam, a beverage/treat of choice (a delicious cinnamon roll never hurt anyone), and some icebreakers and games to play.

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How To Host a Virtual Coffee / FIKA - Collaboration Superpowers

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In many physical workplaces, having coffee together is a normal part of the day. In Sweden, there is a special name for these coffee breaks: "Fika". Many people wonder if it's possible to replicate these coffee breaks online. This podcast is dedicated to how to do just that.

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If you feel breathless due to anxiety, there are breathing techniques you can try to alleviate symptoms and start feeling better.

Let's look at several you can do on at any point during your day or build into longer moments for yourself.

Inhaling deeply may not always calm you down. Taking a deep breath in is actually linked to the sympathetic nervous system, which controls the fight-or-flight response. But exhaling is linked to the parasympathetic nervous system, which influences our body's ability to relax and calm down.

Taking too many deep breaths too quickly can actually cause you to hyperventilate. Hyperventilation decreases the amount of oxygen-rich blood that flows to your brain.

When we feel anxious or under stress, it's easier to breathe too much and end up hyperventilating - even if we're trying to do the opposite.

1. Before you take a big, deep breath, try a thorough exhale instead. Push all the air out of your lungs, then simply let your lungs do their work inhaling air.

2. Next, try spending a little bit longer exhaling than you do inhaling. For example, try inhaling for four seconds, then exhale for six.

3. Try doing this for two to five minutes.

This technique can be done in any position that's comfortable for you, including standing, sitting, or lying down.

Breathing from your diaphragm (the muscle that sits just beneath your lungs) can help reduce the amount of work your body needs to do in order to breathe.

To learn how to breathe from your diaphragm:

Check-in

1. For comfort, lie down on the floor or bed with pillows beneath your head and knees. Or sit in a comfortable chair with your head, neck, and shoulders relaxed, and your knees bent.

2. Then, put one hand under your rib cage and one hand over your heart.

3. Inhale and exhale through your nose, noticing how or if your stomach and chest move as you breathe.

4. Can you isolate your breathing so you bring air deeper into your lungs? What about the reverse? Can you breathe so your chest moves more than your stomach?

Eventually, you want your stomach to move as you breathe, instead of your chest.

Practice belly breathing

1. Sit or lie down as described above.

2. Place one hand on your chest and one hand on your stomach somewhere above your belly button.

3. Breathe in through your nose, noticing your stomach rise. Your chest should remain relatively still.

4. Purse your lips and exhale through your mouth. Try engaging your stomach muscles to push air out at the end of the breath.

For this type of breathing to become automatic, you'll need to practice it daily. Try doing the exercise three or four times a day for up to 10 minutes.

If you haven't been using your diaphragm to breathe, you may feel tired at first. It'll get easier with practice though.

When deep breathing is focused and slow, it can help reduce anxiety. You can do this technique by sitting or lying down in a quiet, comfortable location. Then:

1. Notice how it feels when you inhale and exhale normally. Mentally scan your body. You might feel tension in your body that you never noticed.

2. Take a slow, deep breath through your nose.

3. Notice your belly and upper body expanding.

4. Exhale in whatever way is most comfortable for you, sighing if you wish.

5. Do this for several minutes, paying attention to the rise and fall of your belly.

6. Choose a word to focus on and vocalize during your exhale. Words like "safe" and "calm" can be effective.

7. Imagine your inhale washing over you like a gentle wave.

8. Imagine your exhale carrying negative and upsetting thoughts and energy away from you.

9. When you get distracted, gently bring your attention back to your breath and your words.

Practice this technique for up to 20 minutes daily when you can.

Another form of breathing that stems from the ancient practice of pranayama yoga is equal breathing. This means you're inhaling for the same amount of time as you're exhaling.

You can practice equal breathing from a sitting or lying-down position. Whichever position you choose, be sure to get comfortable.

1. Shut your eyes and pay attention to the way you normally breathe for several breaths.

2. Then, slowly count 1-2-3-4 as you inhale through your nose.

3. Exhale for the same four-second count.

4. As you inhale and exhale, be mindful of the feelings of fullness and emptiness in your lungs.

As you continue practicing equal breathing, your second count might vary. Be sure to keep your inhale and exhale the same.

Resonant breathing, also called coherent breathing, can help you calm anxiety and get into a relaxed state. To try it yourself:

1. Lie down and close your eyes.

2. Gently breathe in through your nose, mouth closed, for a count of six seconds.

3. Don't fill your lungs too full of air.

4. Exhale for six seconds, allowing your breath to leave your body slowly and gently. Don't force it.

5. Continue for up to 10 minutes.

6. Take a few additional minutes to be still and focus on how your body feels.

Yoga is a wellness practice with ancient roots, and breathing is at the heart of each variation of yoga.

One form of yoga, pranayama, includes multiple breathing variations that may help with anxiety. Some of these include lengthened exhale and equal breathing (both featured above), as well as lion's breath and alternate nostril breathing (nadi shodhana).

Lion's breath involves exhaling forcefully. To try lion's breath:

1. Get into a kneeling position, crossing your ankles and resting your bottom on your feet. If this position isn't comfortable, sit cross-legged.

2. Bring your hands to your knees, stretching out your arms and your fingers.

3. Take a breath in through your nose.

4. Breathe out through your mouth, allowing yourself to vocalize "ha."

5. During exhale, open your mouth as wide as you can and stick your tongue out, stretching it down toward your chin as far as it will go.

6. Focus on the middle of your forehead (third eye) or the end of your nose while exhaling.

7. Relax your face as you inhale again.

8. Repeat the practice up to six times, changing the cross of your ankles when you reach the halfway point.

To try alternate nostril breathing, sit down in a comfortable place, lengthening your spine and opening your chest.

Rest your left hand in your lap and raise your right hand. Then, rest the pointer and middle fingers of your right hand on your forehead, in between the eyebrows. Close your eyes, inhaling and exhaling through your nose.

1. Use your right thumb to close the right-hand nostril and inhale slowly through the left.

2. Pinch your nose closed between your right thumb and ring finger, holding the breath in for a moment.

3. Use your right ring finger to close your left nostril and exhale through the right, waiting for a moment before you inhale again.

4. Inhale slowly through the right nostril.

5. Pinch your nose closed again, pausing for a moment.

6. Now, open the left side and exhale, waiting a moment before you inhale again.

7. Repeat this cycle of inhaling and exhaling through either nostril up to 10 times. Each cycle should take up to 40 seconds.

Some people use guided meditation to alleviate anxiety by interrupting patterns of thinking that perpetuate stress.

You can practice guided meditation by sitting or lying in a cool, dark, comfortable place and relaxing. Then, listen to calming recordings while relaxing your body and steadying your breathing.

Guided meditation recordings help take you through the steps of visualizing a calmer, less stressed reality. It can also help you gain control over intrusive thoughts that trigger anxiety.

If you're experiencing anxiety or panic attacks, try using one or more of these breathing techniques to see if they can alleviate your symptoms.

If your anxiety persists or gets worse, make an appointment with your doctor to discuss your symptoms and possible treatments. With the right approach, you can regain your quality of life and control over your anxiety.

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8 Breathing Exercises for Anxiety You Can Try Right Now

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Calm Breathe Bubble | Breathing Exercise

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Holding meetings is an art and a science. But with remote meetings, it's art and science at a whole new level.

Sometimes the remote factor makes meetings annoying, awkward, inconvenient, and downright infuriating.

Why are remote meetings so unwieldy? It's hard to say, but it could be lack of awareness, faulty software, sluggish Internet connections, and tuned-out participants. Maybe we remote workers just hate meetings.

Whatever the case, remote meetings have a tendency to degenerate into an unproductive waste of time.

Thankfully, it doesn't need to be this way. Here's what you need to know about holding a successful remote meeting.

1. Use the best software available.

A remote meeting is only as good as your tools. When it comes to selecting the best teleconference software or systems, don't skimp.

Find a system that everyone is mostly comfortable with and stick with it. I recommend using one that provides easy screen sharing and video capabilities.

Here are some of the better systems I've used.

Skype

Join.me

Google Hangouts

Realize that no system is completely error-free. You're going to deal with low quality at some point.

2. Create an agenda and email it to everyone beforehand.

Following an agenda is a crucial part of a successful remote meeting.

Real life meetings depend on agendas, too, of course, but in a remote environment, it's even more important to follow a clear guide.

If call quality is compromised or callers drop from the call, an agenda makes it easy for them to pick back up and jump in the meeting.

3. Each participant should identify herself or himself when speaking.

It sounds rigid and authoritarian to have rules governing your meeting.

I get that, but at the same time, a lack of structure could send the meeting careening off the rails.

This simple rule -- identify yourself when you start speaking -- can turn a haphazard meeting into a smooth conversation.

Here's why. That brief prefix, "This is so-and-so" serves as a buffer between the telephonic pauses and weird delays of remote meetings.

Some software eliminates the need for introductions by displaying the name or automatically switching to a video image of the speaker In this case, you probably don't need to identify yourself.

Otherwise, ask that each meeting participate introduce themselves -- "this is Daniel" -- before they wax eloquent on their given subject.

4. Have a clear leader.

The meeting needs to have a clear leader. Sorry, but democratized meetings often end up in a free-for-all of confusion and chaos.

The meeting moderator doesn't need to do all the talking, but she should navigate those tricky transitions and guide the discussion.

5. Give everyone a chance to talk.

As in any meeting, there are usually some people who will slip into silence. If you're not using video software, you may not even know whether or not they are still present.

If you ask everyone to participate in a clear and concrete way, your meeting will be more vibrant, more interactive, and hopefully a lot more effective.

According to Inc., in meetings consisting six to eight people, only three people do 70% of the talking. Vocal people tend to speak more, pushing the less assertive participants into the fringes of the meeting.

One technique for involving everyone is to have each team member state in one or two sentences what they are working on for the week.

When everyone talks, everyone wins.

When a meeting involves more than, say, six people, things can get tricky. You might begin to experience these issues:

More background noise

More distraction

Lengthier time commitment due to more involvement

Increased possibility of a poor connection or drop-offs

Obviously, you'll need to determine creative ways to structure team meetings to achieve an ideal size. Doing so will allow you to improve the overall value of each meeting.

7. Direct your questions towards specific people.

Open questions that anyone can answer are usually non-starts.

"Anybody have an idea?" is a cue for nobody to chime in.

Why? Because the spontaneity, chemistry, and nonverbal cues of an in-person meeting aren't there. If you speak up, you risk cutting someone off, or missing out on what someone else is saying.

When you ask questions in the meeting, direct those questions towards an individual participant.

8. Don't try brainstorming sessions.

I've never attended a remote "brainstorming" session that was successful.
I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm just saying it's hard.

A Yale study attempted to determine the effectiveness of group brainstorming as a problem-solving technique. They tested individuals brainstorming by themselves vs. groups brainstorming together. Here's what they found.

The solo brainstormers came up with roughly twice as many solutions as the brainstorming groups. A panel of judges deemed their solutions more "feasible" and "effective."

Obviously, this doesn't mean that group brainstorming is useless or unnecessary. It simply means that if you want to engage in brainstorming in a remote meeting, your best solution may be to have team members brainstorm by themselves, and then present their solutions during the meeting.

The electric energy and inspiration that crackles in an in-person brainstorming session is simply not going to be present across the backlit LED displays of a remote meeting.

Business strategist John Spence makes a great point. He writes, "nearly all of the rules for a typical face-to-face meeting still apply" to remote meetings.

In order to have a good remote meeting, you should also know how to hold a good normal meeting. Yes, you're running a remote meeting, but that doesn't require radical rewriting of all meeting rules.

Follow your best judgment, keep these suggestions in mind, and you'll soon be experiencing the best remote meetings ever.

Have you found these tips helpful? Share this article with your remote team, and see how things improve!

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Don't Break These 8 Rules for Effective Remote Meetings!

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Holding meetings is an art and a science. But with remote meetings, it's art and science at a whole new level. Sometimes the remote factor makes meetings annoying, awkward, inconvenient, and downright infuriating. Why are remote meetings so unwieldy? It's hard to say, but it could be lack of awareness, faulty software, sluggish Internet connections, and tuned-out participants.

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Daily standup meetings: How to run effective team standup meetings

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The daily standup meeting is not a status meeting. Here’s what you need to know to run better daily standup meetings with your team.

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Virtual Icebreakers

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When we're working on a virtual team, it can be extra challenging to get to know our teammates. This can leave some employees feeling disconnected and lead to loneliness in the remote workplace. In order for a team to thrive together, it's important that they also jive together. Building trust and camaraderie amongst co-workers will help foster a sense of community, which in turn, will help teams flourish. That's why we've created an extensive list of icebreakers for virtual teams.

Don't let distance get in the way of bringing your team together

With the right setup, online meetings aren't difficult and they are a great way to bring everyone together. Although it might take a little extra planning at first, there are plenty of activities that will help remote teams feel more connected.

Virtual icebreakers are mini team-building exercises that help us get to know our remote colleagues. They're quick and fun questions, intended to lighten the mood, spark conversation, and get everybody talking and participating from the very get-go.

Why use icebreakers for virtual teams?

Icebreakers are useful for a variety of reasons:

1. They create an opportunity for everyone to speak at the start of the meeting, which, science shows, greatly increases the chances of everyone speaking up again DURING the meeting.

2. They give you insight into your teammates' personalities or moods.

3. Over time, icebreakers can help you get to know people and add a layer of fun that helps the team bond in a very unique way. Suddenly "Bob from engineering" is "Bob from engineering whose favorite food is pizza, whose favorite smell is the rain and who wants to build a canoe."

Although virtual icebreakers can be a lot of fun, they're not appropriate for every meeting. It's important that you identify your audience first.
Types of Virtual icebreakers
CHECK IN PROTOCOL
The Jim and Michele McCarthy check-in protocol allows meeting participant to say how he or she is feeling, e.g. "I feel one or more of mad, sad, glad, or afraid." Or my traffic light is "red, yellow, or green". Anything that indicates how someone might be feeling.
PERSONALITY TESTS
There are a variety of personality tests that can give you insight into how each personality operates.

Myers & Briggs uses four psychological preferences to analyze personality.

How to Fascinate shows what strengths you would use to market yourself.

WorkStyle is an online tool that measures employees' personalities and then generates profiles for each employee and the team as a whole.

VIRTUAL TEAM ICEBREAKER QUESTIONS

If you're looking for a fun way to start a remote meeting, try any of the following icebreaker questions (listed in no particular order):

1. Tell us about a favorite moment of [insert any time frame]?

2. What was your first job?

3. What is your favorite food? Drink?

4. Where is your favorite place to go on vacation?

5. Do you have a favorite smell?

6. Have you got any pets?

7. What is your favorite color?

8. Show your home on google maps and describe your environment: do you live near the city center? A park? A climbing gym? (courtesy of Morgan Legge)

9. What is your favorite movie?

10. Do you have a favorite music group, era or album?

11. When I dance I look like _______.

12. Share a favorite memory that includes food (courtesy of Sarah Baca)

13. Is there a story about your name? (courtesy of Dr. Clue)

14. Take a picture from your window and have people guess where you are.

15. Show any photo from your life and tell the story behind it.

Want more ideas for icebreakers to try out with your teams? Download our virtual team icebreakers list below to get access to hundreds of icebreaker ideas!

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When we're working on a virtual team, it can be extra challenging to get to know our teammates. This can leave some employees feeling disconnected and lead to loneliness in the remote workplace. In order for a team to thrive together, it's important that they also jive together.

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A leadership team meeting is starting: it's 10 minutes late already when the last members rush in, mumbling excuses and apologies-which take an additional two minutes, at minimum. The leader closes her laptop, asks everybody to do the same and poses this question: "How do you feel about how we run our meeting?" First a bit puzzled, the team starts discussing the question. The leader draws two columns on a flip chart: Good Habits and Bad Habits. The columns fill quickly on both sides, but are clearly skewed towards bad.

At one point the leader asks: "Which of these bad habits frustrates us so much we are no longer willing to accept it?" The team quickly circles around being late. The leader crosses out "we're always late" on the Bad Habits side and writes: our meeting starts and ends on time under Good Habits. She clarifies, "It doesn't say, we are always on time. That's not realistic. Our new habit is that the meeting starts on time and that there will be no effort to onboard anyone into the discussion if one of us happens to be late. And we leave the meeting on time, no matter what. Can we all commit to this?" All nod. "That's a decision then."

The leader keeps the Habits list and posts it on the wall every meeting. She asks her assistant to never accept a back-to-back meeting before her leadership team meeting, leaving her a minimum of 15 minutes margin. And, at the end of each meeting-sharp on the minute-she stands up, thanks everybody for their contributions and leaves the room with her team members.

It worked. Yes, at times they slip, have a brief conversation about it and move on.

The leader was pleased to see that this new habit started to ripple through the organization with some of her team members adopting the new habit for their own meetings, and so on. A few weeks later, she brought in a cake with a clock design and opened her meeting saying: "Let's have cake. We've earned it. And then let's go back to our Bad Habits list and crack the next one."

There are some lessons here for all of us:

Surface habits in the moment. Create space to discuss how things actually happen without judgment. Guide your team in creating a list of the habits that they see.

Choose and set goals for the new habit. Co-define the one new habit you and your team will commit to, with an explicit focus on how each person needs to show up to make it come true.

Follow the "quarter rule." It doesn't take 21 days to form a new habit (this actually comes from an unscientific observation in the 1960's about plastic surgery), it's closer to two months. Given typical business cadence, it's best to work on one big behavioral shift every quarter so it's connected to an already established timeframe. Dan Pink's book, When, describes the benefits of using already established time markers to further your work.

Lead by example. Simply put, on team habit, you lead by example or you're not leading at all.

Make it serious and fun. Injecting excitement and humor into the formation of new behaviors is critical because, inevitably, you'll have to have rather frank conversations about people's progress.

Also remember-you'll want to have cake.

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How To Change Team Habits, One At A Time

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By Holger Rathgeber + Nick Petschek A leadership team meeting is starting: it's 10 minutes late already when the last members rush in, mumbling excuses and apologies-which take an additional two minutes, at minimum. The leader closes her laptop, asks everybody to do the same and poses this question: "How do you feel about how we run our meeting?"

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Why Your Team Should Be Inextricably Linked And Fiercely Independent

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While people yearn for group inclusion, we simultaneously crave the freedom to think and act differently. So leaders who aspire to develop thriving teams are presented with a paradox: how does one create a sense of belonging among team members and, at the same time, nurture their individualism?

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Elite athletes dedicate years of their lives to their training - putting in the work to get better, to beat out competition and reach their highest level. True, some get lucky breaks that give them the opportunity to shine (like Tom Brady when Drew Bledsoe got hurt in 2001), but that's not enough to make an athlete's career. It takes hard work, commitment and sacrifice all without any guarantee of long-term success.

All athletes know the risk of injury is part of the game. But most approach sports with an "it won't happen to me" attitude. When it does happen, it can be devastating. They experience fear, anxiety, anger and even grief - especially for those who have seen themselves as athletes above all else. Suddenly, what made them who they are is in jeopardy. These reactions are normal. Injuries force athletes to reflect and evaluate. It's what they do next that separates the good from the great.

Some go into - and stay in - Survive mode: hyper-attuned to threats and hyper-focused on problem-solving. They get stuck in the fear that they will never perform at the same level again, usually creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. Those athletes typically don't get back to their same peak performance. Some refuse to acknowledge the severity of the injury, which limits the rehabilitation process and greatly increases the likelihood of reinjury.

Others demonstrate incredible resilience by going into Thrive mode: they hone in on their greatest strengths on and off the field, seek out opportunities, collaborate and innovate. They use this challenge to learn critical lessons that allow them to think in new ways or behave differently in the future. They begin to broaden their sense of identity, and begin to think more creatively about how they can be successful. A soccer player may no longer be the fastest on the field after an ACL tear, but she can sharpen her ability to read the field and make faster decisions. An Olympic rower may shift from rowing as a single to rowing in an eight, finding strength in a team.

Setbacks in business aren't all that different. Whether it's a significant financial downturn, the loss of a key product or an unforeseen controversy, organizations are also forced to reflect and evaluate. Employees are often left wondering if it's possible for the company to come back and, if it can, what their role will be and what will be different. How the organization responds will inevitably dictate its future viability.

When "the worst" happens, many people within the organization are likely in Survive - as they should be at the beginning. But, staying in Survive indefinitely won't help the organization recover. Senior leaders need to acknowledge and help others understand the situation. They need to move from blame, which focuses on individual actions, to accountability, which focuses on the systems at play. Then they need to demonstrate commitment to finding a path forward built on the core values of the business - those that inspire employees to come to work every day - while also embracing a spirit of rediscovery and innovation.

For example, many pharmaceutical companies' patents are running out, opening the market to unprecedented competition. Rather than falling victim to this situation, one company seized this moment to focus on increasing speed to market, launching several new brands faster than ever before and impacting millions of patients' lives, resulting in $450 million in revenue for the business. Or, Uber, which could have collapsed under the weight of multiple scandals. Instead, new CEO, Dara Khosrowshahi has launched a widespread campaign to rebuild trust among customers and employees.

Leaders in the midst of recovering from a significant setback need to leverage this moment in time to consider the type of organization they want to be. They need to ensure everyone at all levels learns the right lessons, ground themselves in the organization's core values, explore how they can innovate to bring unique value in the current market and determine what they need to stop doing to protect against the same setbacks in the future. Doing so will help ensure an organization can thrive again - and perhaps even exceed pre-injury performance levels.

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Setbacks in business aren't so different from elite athletes experiencing career-altering injuries. Employees, like athletes, are often left wondering if it's possible for the company to come back. How do leaders help people move forward with a Thrive lens when they're stuck in Survive mode?

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13 SEL Actitivities

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Social & Emotional Learning (SEL)

Build social and emotional skills into any class.

Summit students rip up their stress.

Summit Preparatory Charter High School in Redwood City, California, uses a variety of activities in the weekly, 90-minute Habits, Community, and Culture (HCC) class, where students learn Habits of Success and develop social and emotional learning (SEL) skills. The school has developed an HCC curriculum for grades nine through 12 and hired two full-time teachers for HCC, but Summit's academic teachers also use some of these activities to build SEL skills and deepen their relationships with their students. Cady Ching, a biology and AP environmental science teacher at Summit, incorporates opening activities into all of her classes: "In my freshman classes, we do them every class period."

Visualization to release stress: Have your students imagine what stress looks and feels like inside their body, and then ask them to release it. "The mindfulness practice makes you think the stress is coming off your body," says Geoffrey, a 12th-grade student.

Noise isolation: There are a variety of sounds that your students hear when they're in your classroom, from students walking in the hallway to outdoor construction noise. Have your students focus on one noise and describe it to themselves and recall the last time they interacted with it.

Here are some of the opening, group sharing, and closing activities that teachers use at Summit:

Opening Activities

Summit students practice mindfulness.

2. Name the emotion you're bringing to class: Have each student call out the emotion they're feeling. This helps each student know how they and other students are feeling, what different emotions look like, and how to better interact with their peers based on how they're feeling.

3. Write down, rip up, and throw away your stress: Have your students write down their expectations and insecurities, rip them up, and throw them away. This emotional check-in takes about three minutes. By acknowledging how your students are feeling at the start of each class, you'll acknowledge their barriers to learning and create a safe space for your students to overcome them.

5. Quote of the day: Introduce a quote relevant to what your students are learning or to a shared experience-for example, an act of violence in the community. You can facilitate a whole-class discussion, group students into pairs, or have each student share a one-word response to the quote. This gives students the space to reflect on their beliefs and experiences and whether they agree or disagree with the quote and other students' opinions, and it gives them insight into their peers' perspectives and feelings.

6. Where we came from: Collect baby pictures from your students. Project one baby picture at the start of class, have your students guess who it is, and then have the featured student share something about their childhood.

7. Starting positive: Have each student tape a sheet of paper to their back and then walk around and write positive qualities about their peers on their backs.

8. Motivational moment: Have two students start the class with a three- to five-minute presentation-and come up with two or three discussion questions-based on their interests. The presentation must be related to the course content in a real-world context. "Many students include a video for visuals and increased engagement, but it's optional," says Ching. Have the rest of the class partner up to discuss their questions for one minute and then give them the opportunity to share out to the whole class. This exercise gives your students insight into their peers' interests.

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Group Sharing

9. Circle sharing: To encourage active listening, create small groups. Have your students position their chairs in a circle so everyone can make eye contact. To strengthen empathy, you can facilitate deeper discussion around what a student shares by asking, "Why did that student share what they did?" or "What perspective is that student coming from?"

When discussing emotionally charged topics, it's important to have guidelines to foster a safe space. Summit uses the Courageous Conversation protocol created by Glenn E. Singleton when discussing race. The protocol is guided by four agreements-stay engaged, experience discomfort, speak your truth, and expect and accept nonclosure. Here is an example of elementary school discussion guidelines from School 21.

Summit students sit in a circle for a whole-class discussion.

10. Write a poem from someone else's perspective. Have your students choose someone they don't know. This helps them to understand that they don't "need to be best friends with someone to empathize with them," explains Ballard.

11. Have a conversation with someone you don't know. Have your students pair up with a student they don't know and provide the pairs with five questions to ask each other. Each student introduces their partner to the class, speaking as if they were their partner, while the rest of the class looks at the student being introduced. "We don't see people sometimes," says Ballard, "and this exercise helps students to see each other more deeply."

12. Play interest and identity-related bingo. Instead of squares filled with numbers or vocabulary words, create cards with information relating to your students. Summit's Bingo cards have things like "'I like to read' or 'I was born in a different country,'" says Armando, a ninth-grade student.

I would like to appreciate Brenda for facilitating the conversation in our small group.

I would like to thank everyone for taking this class seriously.

I apologize to everyone for having my headphones in for half of the time.

Closing Activity

13. Appreciation, apology, aha: Have your students get in a circle and share an appreciation, apology, or realization with the group. Students in Ballard's class have shared things like:

Encourage authentic and timely apologies. Apologizing for something that happened a long time ago has less impact than apologizing for something that happened that day or week. Let your students know that they don't have to name who they're apologizing to when they apologize for what they did.

Help students share helpful, not harmful words. "I often say, 'Appreciations, apologies, and ahas should be something that you genuinely think will be useful for people to hear,'" says Ballard.

Have your students snap, clap, or shake both hands when they hear something that resonates with them. "We snap to let people know that we hear them without exerting our own voice in their narrative," explains Ballard. Students shake their hands when peers share things that are emotionally charged. Ballard often gets this started by saying, "Let's shake it up for that."

"When you pay attention to each other, not only does it build a sense of community, but we're more able to understand other people," says Janet, a 12th-grade student. "If you're able to understand people at a younger age, you could work better with them as adults. That changes how the future generations will be. People can be more accepting, more helpful towards each other."

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