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Why Your Open Door Policy Is Destroying Your Leadership with Michelle Sloan
From Better Leaders Better Schools · Hosted by Daniel Bauer
Episode summary
In this episode of Better Leaders Better Schools: She helps principals stop surviving their schools and start leading them. Michelle Sloan is an educator, author, and leadership coach who spent seven years building a school from the ground up — which gave her something rare: " firsthand proof that mission-driven leadership isn't a feel-good concept, it's a survival strategy. " Her book The Purpose Driven Principal is the framework she wishes she'd had in year one.
Original publisher description
She helps principals stop surviving their schools and start leading them. Michelle Sloan is an educator, author, and leadership coach who spent seven years building a school from the ground up — which gave her something rare: " firsthand proof that mission-driven leadership isn't a feel-good concept, it's a survival strategy." Her book The Purpose Driven Principal is the framework she wishes she'd had in year one. School leadership burnout is not a willpower problem. It's a systems problem. A principal walks in energized, writes down what matters, and by 6pm hasn't touched a single item on the list. This episode is about diagnosing that drift — and building the structure to stop it from swallowing another year. 📚 What You'll Learn Why your open door policy is actively damaging your relationships (not protecting them). How the four pillars of a purpose-driven school — people, pedagogy, processes, and personal growth — create a filter for every decision. The Assess, Design, Align cycle and how to use it to get back to mission-driven work. Why what's predictable is preventable, and what that actually looks like in practice. The one calendar change that breaks the reactive leadership...