Transformative Principal

This week is our next installment of seeing how Eric is doing in his new school. As a refresher, here is last month’s update. Last time, we gave him three strategies: - Strategy 1: add 15–30 minutes to however long you think each meeting will be. - Strategy 2: You seem upset, what’s the best way to contact you when he gets back at X? - Strategy 3: intentional Drive-bys - Schedule time to go be visible. We checkin on those ideas and then talk about what he’s facing today. Eric shared a great strategy today: Strategy #1: Create a “canned response” in your email provider to send to people when they are upset inviting them to talk in person or on the phone. It’s never a good idea to get in an email war. Much better to have a conversation with a person who is upset. Creating a response you send that always invites someone to meet with you and resolve differences is a sure-fire way to stop email wars and keyboard warriors. Strategy #2: Schedule to send out that email! Don’t send it immediately after you write it.