Often in the world of calendar management, things can seem well. . . additive. Another quick meeting? Sure, let me hold time. You need a deliverable for the board meeting? Okay, I’ll get that in too. Plus meetings, of course, and prep for those meetings and follow up...
Recently when working with a group of school leaders, we got to chatting about Calendar Clutter. You know, the types of things that just land on one’s calendar, like teachers out of the building, various school-based events, grade and department meetings that are...
I recently met with a school network CEO and her assistant and then had my weekly household meeting with Dr. Together, and I found myself repeating a phrase that cues a very strategic process. “Sweep the calendar, scrub the calendar.” I realized I have used this idea...
In class last week, we received a great question from an Area Superintendent of a large, urban school district. In short, she noted that Togetherness systems had served her well as a school leader, and she was curious when and how to scale Togetherness. I loved this...
This title has been sitting on my shelves for a bit, and when I found myself recently scrolling through a gazillion photos to find a recipe I had screenshotted from Instagram, I figured it was time to give this book a read. Building a Second Brain subscribes to many...
In our almost two decades of training others toward Togetherness, we have noticed that people tend to Together themselves across two different dimensions. There are those people who seem to favor the calendar a bit more (we call them When-ers) and those that strongly...