EPISODE 327

Start the Year Aligned: How to Bring a Fractured Staff Together Fast

Biggest Takeaways You Don't Want to Miss:
  • If your vision only shows up during back-to-school PD, it’s not a vision. It’s a slogan.
  • The fastest way to lose a staff is to ask them to commit to goals they didn’t help shape and don’t actually believe in.
  • If people can’t use your vision, mission, or core values to make a decision, it's useless.
  • The more energy you spend trying to get everyone to “buy in,” the less power your vision actually has.
  • Disagreement isn’t dangerous. What’s dangerous is having no shared place to return to when it happens.

This week, I’m tackling one of the biggest challenges principals face at the start of the school year: how to align a fractured staff.

Whether you’re dealing with a wave of new hires, lingering resistance, or a team that just doesn’t feel cohesive yet, I’ll show you how to quickly get everyone moving in the same direction—not through team-building gimmicks or compliance measures, but by anchoring your team in a shared vision, mission, and core values.

If you want practical, powerful ways to turn fragmentation into focus and confusion into clarity, this episode will help you start the year #LikeABuilder.

Check out these highlights:
  • How to quickly unify new and returning staff without relying on forced team-building or artificial buy-in.
  • Why most alignment efforts fail within the first 30 days—and what to do instead.
  • What to say (and repeat) in the first weeks of school to anchor your staff in purpose, not just procedures.
  • How to lay the foundation now so that mid-year stress doesn’t lead to conflict, confusion, or collapse.
  • The power of creating a “home base” your staff can return to—even when they disagree.
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