Posts by Kathryn Kee, PCC, M. Ed.
Four Questions to Focus your Brain – before it tries to take control
As this new year begins, it can be as exciting as a two-year-old with cake and ice cream, or crazy with stress and concern. So, as we have learned in our seminars, the messages we send our brain will change the game. You remember, the brain is wired to protect and look for stuff like:…
Read MoreBeginnings: Psychological Safety
As we return to school as leaders, teachers, and students, one of the most important things we have learned from cognitive research in the last twenty years is the importance of psychological safety. Returning to a building or coming to a new place is either exciting or scary. What makes the difference? People do! We…
Read MoreWelcome Back to School – A Winning Strategy
There are few things that are more exciting for kids than a new school year beginning. The excitement of seeing old friends, making new ones, new teachers, new opportunities, new supplies. Our work as educators is ensuring that the excitement and the joy remain as the school year progresses. The same is true for leaders…
Read MoreBouncing Forward to a New Normal – Part 3
In continuing to explore our tools for bouncing forward to the new normal we will explore Jonathan Bates’ model, the Resilience Triangle and its third leg, ACTION. Action activates resilience. While having a resilient mindset and tons of energy are great, very little will improve if we don’t take action. Bates offers resilience-friendly skills and…
Read MoreBouncing Forward to a New Normal – Part 2
Last time we began exploring a model offered to us that holds the potential for jumpstarting our sense of resilience. The Resilience Triangle comprises Mindset + Energy + Action. It’s like a three-legged stool. Lacking even one leg, the whole stool won’t stand firm. In part one, we were reminded of the power of our…
Read MoreBouncing Forward to a new Normal
As we begin our entrance into spring, the time that brings new energy, new life, and new hope, I find many of our educators wearier, more discouraged, more struggling than thriving. Each time I am blessed to work in our schools the heaviness is witnessed. In our recent Strengths Webinar on “Using our Strengths for…
Read MoreLooking Toward the New and Better Year
This month has been an offering of strategies for reducing stress and breathing deeper. When we seek clarity, we reduce the chaos around and begin to think in a positive and powerful direction. In part 2, David Rock reminds us to seek a “better normal.” Just the reframe of language empowers more energy and positive…
Read MoreThe Road to a New and Better Normal
In our first message the focus was on ways to support all of us in moving from uncertainty and complexity to clarity. When things are so overwhelming, as the last two years have been, simply offering clarity about those things we do know. As educators and coach leaders, we all know change begins with the…
Read MoreUncertainty & Complexity to Clarity – A Few Simple Options
In every Results Coaching Global seminar, in almost all coaching conversations, people share their feelings and behaviors of being overwhelmed. Of course, life is trying to get back to some normalcy, yet all around us, other signs say, caution, caution, caution. You are a professional, you are committed, you want to do a good job!…
Read MoreMore GREAT EIG8Ts
In the first two parts of our focus on tips for leadership and communication, we looked at David Grossman’s GREAT EIG8T strategies for leadership and communication while connecting to our RCG communication skills and tools. In our article prior to this one, we shared his first four tips. They were: Lead Yourself First Know Your…
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