Will Percy From Surviving to Thriving Is the faculty in your school surviving or thriving? When it comes to lesson observations or appraisals, do your teachers find their emotions running high as they go into fight or flight mode? Under t... Feb 27, 2025 Take the Dread Out of Mondays
Will Percy The Importance of Relationship-Building for More Authentic Classroom Observations Strong relationships between principals, teachers, and students can make classroom observations more effective. When principals have a rapport with their staff and students, the observation process be... Feb 13, 2025 Take the Dread Out of Mondays
Will Percy Take the Dread Out of Lesson Observations Teachers often find observations stressful, whether they are unannounced "pop-ins" or formal evaluations. This pressure can make it difficult for them to perform at their best, particularly when they ... Jan 23, 2025 Take the Dread Out of Mondays
Will Percy How to Move Beyond Instructional Coaching As Dr Percy outlined in the CESA session ‘The Connected Leader’, we recommend four effective interlinked steps to move beyond instructional coaching. 1. Encouraging collective over superhero leadershi... Oct 7, 2024 Christian Schools
Will Percy Considerations for Moving Beyond Instructional Coaching While instruction coaching continues to imply different things depending on geography or culture, this can lead to confusion. Are we talking about telling teachers what to do? Are we sharing insights ... Oct 6, 2024 Christian Schools
Will Percy How Can Positive Psychology Help Slay Zombies? Remember when we said that TeamOptix radically bases its coaching principles on the maxim that everybody deserves to be happy? When we look around the education sector, it’s easy to find stories of bu... Oct 4, 2024 Christian Schools
Will Percy Don’t Do as I Say, Do as I Do Shifting from superhero leadership strategies is challenging due to a lack of understanding of how to build effective cultures through collective leadership. Transitioning from a traditional, directiv... Sep 25, 2024 Christian Schools
Will Percy Superhero Leadership as a Zombie-like Behaviour and How This Can Impact Engagement In our previous blog on Engagement and Happiness , we shared some key insights into how to foster engagement within our schools. One key obstacle to this is the perseverance with a superhero leadershi... Sep 16, 2024 Christian Schools
Will Percy Engagement and Happiness Research shows that despite nine out of ten leaders recognising the link between engagement and success, two-thirds of American workers remain disengaged, costing the U.S. economy $2.8 trillion annual... Sep 4, 2024 Christian Schools
Will Percy Introduction to the Connected Leader Blog Series In education, a leader needs to be authoritative and have all the answers, right? Let’s pause for a second and try again. As Christians, we acknowledge Jesus as the ultimate servant leader, offering H... Aug 20, 2024 Christian Schools
Will Percy Changing Challenging Behaviour In today's business world, many organizations rely on competitive appraisal systems that put individual progress before teamwork. This approach can lead to communication centered around winning and su... Jul 23, 2023 The Coaching Evolved Blog
Will Percy Achieving Accountability In today's fast-paced and dynamic business world, achieving accountability goes beyond just ticking off boxes. It's about fostering a culture of shared responsibility, where team members feel empowere... Jul 16, 2023 The Coaching Evolved Blog
