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Dec 19, 2022

Managing Intra-Team Conflict

Conflict is like a “Ringwraiths” in Lord of the Rings. It swoops in and sucks the life out of you. You may have workplace conflict fatigue if you: Frequently waste energy worried about how someone will respond. Leave meetings with less energy than when you entered. Constantly second guess yourself…

Conflict Resolution

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Managing Intra-Team Conflict
Managing Intra-Team Conflict
Conflict Resolution

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Dec 11, 2022

Making hard decisions

We can relieve raucous ambiguity and stressful indecision … How can we make complex decision easier? Often we have no “design” or structures in place to support decision making. We are like kids trying to land a quarter in a small hole without the right tool. In our effort to…

Productivity

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It’s easier than you think: making hard decisions 101
It’s easier than you think: making hard decisions 101
Productivity

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Dec 5, 2022

Leading Amid Change

Nine steps to usher in a new normal. People need certainty. Even those who “thrive in uncertainty” have it. The entrepreneur who can “roll with the punches” and “build something from scratch” has a secret sense of certainty. She knows that her process will guide her to desired results. …

Change

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Leading Amid Change
Leading Amid Change
Change

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Dec 5, 2022

The Secret to Delegating Effectively

Delegation can be easier than you think. You just need the right method… I’ve delegated more than 10,000 tasks to people throughout my career. Most of my delegations were to hundreds of students at Make School, a Bachelor’s in Applied Computer Science Program that I helped build from scratch. …

Delegation

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The Secret to Delegating Effectively
The Secret to Delegating Effectively
Delegation

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·Nov 22, 2022

The Myth of Constructive Feedback

3 tips for growth-based feedback — “How do you balance positive and constructive feedback?” A teammate posed this common management quandary at a recent off-site. It sparked a rigorous debate between my colleagues. Everybody began to spout justifications and formulas. But I saw a critical flaw in the question’s framing. There is no need to balance…

Management

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The Myth of Constructive Feedback
The Myth of Constructive Feedback
Management

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Mar 29, 2022

Student Retreats: An Opportunity to Set a College Culture of Openness

Our year at Make School begins with a retreat to Marin County, California. Our new cohort of students arrives at our San Francisco campus the day before, flying in from all around the world. We hop upon a bus and drive across the iconic Golden Gate Bridge. …

Social Emotional Learning

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Student Retreats: An Opportunity to Set a College Culture of Openness
Student Retreats: An Opportunity to Set a College Culture of Openness
Social Emotional Learning

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Mar 29, 2022

Stop Lecturing to Students

The mundane method of “lecture to all” doesn’t work. Lecturing is like filling cracks in a wall (gaps in student knowledge) with a hose of concrete. You spurt out sloppy rock-sand with hope to hit some gap in understanding. …

Teaching

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Stop Lecturing to Students
Stop Lecturing to Students
Teaching

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Mar 29, 2022

The New Era of Higher Ed Recruitment: Transparency Marketing

Colleges face a two sided challenge They are hemorrhaging students And have trouble recruiting them Most recruitment strategies used by admission teams are archaic — the top 200 institutions often rely mostly on brand and US News rankings. They can neglect marketing efforts. For example, a recruiting webinar for UNC’s…

Marketing

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The New Era of Higher Ed Recruitment:Transparency Marketing
The New Era of Higher Ed Recruitment:Transparency Marketing
Marketing

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Mar 29, 2022

Lean Lesson Plans: the data-informed way to teach

Teachers radically underutilize the data available to them in class. Teachers can create combinations of activities that make education more responsive and adaptive than ever before — they just need a template. Educators missed something. Over the past 40 years, they codified the most effective teaching methods (active learning, formative…

Education

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Lean Lesson Plans: the data-informed way to teach
Lean Lesson Plans: the data-informed way to teach
Education

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Mar 29, 2022

How to allow students to run class

The 2000s rom-com movie Accepted taught an important lesson. The film tells the story of a high schooler who, after getting rejected from all colleges, decides to create his own fake college dubbed the “South Harmon Institute of Technology” (SHIT). He situates his campus in a decrepit, abandoned high school…

Education

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How to allow students to run class
How to allow students to run class
Education

4 min read

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