Now - Next - Later by Sonia Ramirez

Hiring Practices

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Look into how the interview process and questions ensure alignment with the core values.

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tposeley — 2025-10-09 18:42:31 UTC

Take this back to site/dept larger leadership teams and have them self rate and provide input and next steps.

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atrudel — 2025-10-09 18:42:47 UTC

Do the same activity with our teams/direct reports

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2025-10-09 18:43:01 UTC

Schedule additional time to meet w/ team for feedback on their response to the 4 Disciplines.

Bulletin Communication

tbatchelderschwab — 2025-10-09 18:43:08 UTC

More frequent. Include more staff voices and interests (classified) at elementary site.

Discipline 1- Trust

2025-10-09 18:43:17 UTC

If your leadership does not have trust (Discipline 1), then you cannot move on to any of the other disciplines.

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tposeley — 2025-10-09 18:43:21 UTC

Calibrating with a new team since new to school site.

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2025-10-09 18:43:43 UTC

Select 3 areas of focused improvement from the outcome of the NOW action & practice knowing the 6 elements across our team

Staff Meetings

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End all staffing meetings with clear actionable agreements and assignments

Meeting Agenda

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Utililizing the checklist to formulate the meeting agendas.

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tposeley — 2025-10-09 18:44:23 UTC

Building the team capacity, since our leadership team has not read the book and building the background knowledge.

Explore whats working and not working.

Creating collaborative next steps.

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Going back to the leadership team and recalibrating the results to define the next and later step

Getting together with our leadership team and discussing the org chart and making any necessary changes and then calendar time to meet with the entire team to go over changes and discuss the why and calibrate before it is finalized.

Going over the Disciplines with my teacher leadership team and go over discipline 1 with my Autism Team and office team.

Avoid/Deescalate Drama

tbatchelderschwab — 2025-10-09 18:45:15 UTC

Continue to build a healthy team setting to be proactive in ways to problem solve in difficult and challenging situations.

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cleon52 — 2025-10-09 18:45:16 UTC

Weekly leadership team meetings to discuss action plan items.

Clarity

2025-10-09 18:45:22 UTC

Ensuring clear actionable topics are discussed and all walk away with clear consistent communication.

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2025-10-09 18:45:37 UTC

Identify roles and responsibilities after recent changes in the department. Identify next steps specific to the responsibilities.

Step up step back. Go back and re-evaluate as a team based on our shared responsibilities.

Compile those areas that we have not adopted and make a plan for what we will do next.

Now

2025-10-09 18:45:57 UTC

Revisit the "team" and include voices that may have not been heard.

Data Analyzing

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Using data to drive next steps

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2025-10-09 18:46:12 UTC

Need to review The Six Aspects of Clarity with our teams.

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2025-10-09 18:46:14 UTC

Clearly identify the values, themes, and coaching ideas with the team. Leave time to ask clarifying questions. We sometimes assume everyone has the same understanding, but it is essential to overcommunicate.

Revisit Comms around Feedback

tbatchelderschwab — 2025-10-09 18:46:21 UTC

Has it improved? Is everyone feeling included? Does everyone have the information they need? Is there clarity.

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After we identify changes to engage in now, we can then identify next steps.

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2025-10-09 18:46:31 UTC

Continue Daily huddles for alignment

needs to be consistent and a priority. Helps to share information and avoid duplication of work.

Continue weekly meetings with an agenda tied to goals. Ongoing agenda that assigns tasks. Helps to see successes

Weekly recognition

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tposeley — 2025-10-09 18:46:55 UTC

Build a monitoring assessment to help guage growth in the areas.

Buidling structure into the meetings to help foster more organization.

First gain a better understanding of new sites then develop a later action.

Prioratize potential changes and make potential action items then monitor on a regular basis.

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Incorporating the six elements of clarity into our monthly staff meetings.

Over communicating the organizational goals, and the basics .

Organize

2025-10-09 18:47:35 UTC

Organizing procedures and data before it is evaluated for improvement. Collaborate with leadership team to get clarity of what exactly we are trying to make an improvement for.

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cleon52 — 2025-10-09 18:47:37 UTC

Follow up on action items, alignment on clarity

Circle back

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Measure growth/Reflect on processes in identified areas of need.

Later

2025-10-09 18:47:48 UTC

Reassessing next steps after reflection with the team. Spending time defining success.

Communication

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Meeting conclusions include clear agreements on what to communicate at the end of each meeting.

Goal Role

tbatchelderschwab — 2025-10-09 18:48:13 UTC

What is my role in department goals? Establish role responsibility and expectations so all are included and time and resources are best spent on achieving the goal.

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2025-10-09 18:48:19 UTC

Discuss roles and responsibilities with the six aspects of clarity.

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2025-10-09 18:48:19 UTC

apply the 6 elements of clarity to our internal communication practices and introduce it early in new hire onboarding.

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atrudel — 2025-10-09 18:48:22 UTC

Building Team Capacity through introduction to The Advantage.

Work on one discipline at a time that was lacking.

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cleon52 — 2025-10-09 18:48:39 UTC

Long term empowerment of leadership to achieve sustainable improvement strategies.

Issues- Addressed in proper setting

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Tactical and strategic issues need to be handled in separate meetings.

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2025-10-09 18:49:02 UTC

Reveiw items that were not check on the checklist with the teams, to look for ways to improve.

Defining terms with the team so everyone on the same page.

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2025-10-09 18:49:11 UTC

Realize that you can always make changes and improve. Your team is not stuck where they are.

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atrudel — 2025-10-09 18:49:14 UTC

Starting an improvement cycle for the areas we are weakest in.

Hiring Process

2025-10-09 18:49:37 UTC

Analyze current hiring process for jobs specific to our department (are w e asking the right questions in interviews etc.)

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Reanalyzing systems and reflectively looking at the system to build capacity around the 6 elements of communication in the 3rd discipline.

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Implement changes in an intentional way to build the capacity of the team.

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2025-10-09 18:49:57 UTC

Revisit the checklist with the team to collectively determine an area for growth.

Identifying Issues

2025-10-09 18:50:04 UTC

Identifying and tackling strategic issues.

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2025-10-09 18:50:07 UTC

Identify areas and methods to improve ourselves, our teams, and staff, directly related to our leadership health checklist.

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Reacclimate with the 6 aspects of clarity. Align roles and responsibilities.

Peer Recognition

tbatchelderschwab — 2025-10-09 18:50:26 UTC

Peers catch each other "doing good" to reinforce positive behaviors and work. Peer accountability is a powerful thing. It can be more effective than "leader" acknowledgement.

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2025-10-09 18:50:26 UTC

plan a discussion with the leadership team about difficult conversations

Setting up regular meetings with leadership partner to better collaborate.

Make a poster of 6 clarities and put it up in the meeting room.

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Follow up and manage expectations for the team.

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2025-10-09 18:50:32 UTC

Have your leadership team lead the way with the rest of the staff—peers learning from peers.

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PDSA Cycle on the chosen area of improvement.

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2025-10-09 18:51:01 UTC

Making sure the elements are evident in meetings. Do a follow up review of checklist to see if team has made progress.

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2025-10-09 18:55:04 UTC

Communicate and teach these practices and principles to our staff.