One of the perks of my job is that I receive a steady stream of Togetherness Hotline Questions that push me to think in new ways or explore new avenues of Togetherness. I often find myself thinking that the answers could be instructive for the greater good. And I...
We assume good intent around here, and that everyone is generally doing the best they can with the work and the life on their plates. That said, it can feel challenging to have gotten yourself Together, and then feel like it is all for naught when your manager is...
As the school year winds to a close for almost all of us, it’s a great time to step back and evaluate your meeting structure for the next academic or fiscal year! Meetings are not intrinsically evil. But meetings that are not structured to improve results waste...
This month I’ve been hanging out a lot in Together Leader 2 Land. . . What is this land, you ask? Why, I’ll tell you! It’s a land focused on Team Togetherness. Ashley, a school leader in Indianapolis, takes us there with her Meeting Matrix for the remainder of the...
On my recent trip to Mississippi, Braxton S., a high school principal, showed off his Together System. Yowsa, look at that fancy Weekly Worksheet on the front page! More to come on this baby later. For now, I want to showcase what I was really intrigued by – the...
I’ve been spending a lot of time with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools these days (see here, here, and here), and I keep learning more and more! So of course, when I spied this District Meeting Schedule on Talla R.’s workspace during a recent session, I had to find out...
