You're Trying to Fix Staff Problems With the Wrong Tools
About this episode
Robyn Jackson discusses why traditional staff alignment tools fail to achieve true alignment in schools and offers insights on building lasting staff cohesion.
Are you beating yourself up because you just don't have enough time, bandwidth, or follow-through to finally get your staff aligned? What if the problem was never you? In this episode, I'm breaking down why every staff alignment tool you've been given — the culture retreats, the PLC protocols, the buy-in campaigns, the accountability conversations — was designed to produce compliance, not alignment. And compliance is not alignment's cheaper version. It's alignment's wrong destination. You've been using the tools correctly. You've been getting exactly what they were designed to give. The problem isn't your execution. The problem is that no compliance tool was ever built to get you to 100% staff alignment — and no amount of additional time, energy, or focus on your part will change that. By the end of this video you'll know: — Why your staff alignment problems keep coming back every August — Why the tools you've been given were designed for symptom relief, not a cure — What it actually takes to build real, lasting staff alignment in your school This is Issue #012 of the 100% Principal Newsletter. Every week I take one thing every principal is wrestling with, show you why it's so…
People in this episode
Host: Robyn Jackson
Topics covered
- staff alignment
- compliance tools
- education leadership
- principal challenges
- school culture
Keywords
- staff alignment
- compliance
- education tools
- principal
- school culture
- leadership
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