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Have you ever asked a kid for advice? If not, you should start. Take a listen as Ted shares the wisdom of nearly 200 middle school students. These young people gave great advice for the adults in their lives. Use his process to amplify your teams, friends and family this Thanksgiving.
Describe the advice you’ll take from the students.List who would benefit from getting this type of advice.Describe how you could use this process to elevate others. -
Join Ted and listen to him with what might be the most enthusiasm he's had yet on the podcast. He found a new Google tool called NotebookLM and he breaks down the power of this AI for use in leadership, organizations, and classrooms. There is a AI generated podcast within the podcast. Super smart thinking this week.
List application you have for NotebookLM.Describe your wonderings around applying AI in your work.List you worries about applying storm generating technologies.Click here to take you to NotebookLM
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A behavior ignored, is a behavior reinforced. In your culture what are you expecting and what are you tolerating? Listen as Ted describes a mindset and tool to help you have the needed conversations so that your culture grows in a positive way and people are either coached up to the expectations or coached out of the situation.
List the people coming with you and who is notDescribe what you need to do in order to grow your invitation listDescribe what you need to do different within your culture -
When people are stubborn it is usually for a good reason. Likely fear of change or of the unknown consequences of taking the "risk." Take a listen as Ted explore how to support good people who seem unwilling to change or move into the direction of the storm they are facing.
List people who can help you move past a stubborn moment you are facing.Describe how you can support others who have the wrong gear but right mindset.List the ways in which you can support others in finding their way. -
Transactional relationships and mindsets create disengagement, sadness, and resentment. Transactional thinking is the opposite of leadership and keeping score needs to stop.
Listen as Ted explores how to shift to a zero-zero mindset and support a positive narrative in your noggin and help you - help others grow.
Describe where in your life you are keeping scoreList the people in your life that need to be modeled 0-0Describe how you can lead with a 0-0 mindset -
Recess might actually be the process to help children learn more, decrease classroom behavioral issues, and increase teacher retention.
Wait, how could that be? In this episode Ted shares research that shows how increasing recess - decreases all the negative things occurring in school and increases all of the positive things. The answer for improvement has likely been in front of us the entire time (recess). However, we’re going to need to be buffaloes and charge into several storms to create the ideal conditions.
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Listen as Ted shares great resources to help you grow and support others. These resources are building off of themes presented this season on the podcast and will help you support parents, fuel your inner buffalo and frame your mindset.
Studies:
The Evolving Needs of Working Parent’s: Kindercare StudyWalton Family Foundation Voices of Gen Z Study: Gallup/Walton Family FoundationBooks:
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, Lindsay GibsonThe Anxious Generation, Jonathan HaidtTwelve and A Half, Gary VaynerchukThe Happiest Man on Earth, Eddie JakuAlbums:
Coldplay: Moon MusicLeon Bridges: Leon -
How does your system support parents? Too often we are casting blame on the parents and not recognizing the opportunities and responsibilities we have to empower parents.
Take a listen as Ted challenges us to create systems of support and empowerment while the children are on their educational journey. You can't meet unspoken expectations and parenting is an anxiety riddled journey and everyone has questions. That anxiety turns to defensiveness very quickly, so let's make navigating schools less worrisome and help parents support their children in new ways.
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Are you wise enough to be a Sage? YES! This week join us as we discuss the IMPACT our words can have on others as Ted reviews the people who've impacted him and how we can all grow from those around us. Listen to the very end..... for some really sage advice.
Here are the 180 degree cards for purchase: https://store.cesa6.org/products/buffalo-note-cards
List the sages in your lifeDescribe your ability to support others with your collected wisdomList who needs you to step into their storm with IMPACT? -
How well do you celebrate failure? In this episode, Ted discusses how we can all learn from slime mold to get ourselves into a routine of never losing and instead, always learning.
The road to excellence has no destination and is filled with failures. To keep moving forward - we have to celebrate all the learning! We're never losing -- we're always learning.
Describe where you can apply slime mold strategies.List where this process would be helpful in increasing risk.Describe a recent failure that should be celebrated. -
Join Ted as he discusses the importance of having a process that allows for people to contribute instead of simply complaining. The tool and mindset are simple- operate in “AND” mode not “BUT” mode. This episode has a bonus process tool using wisdom and conjunctions to create a great cultural reflection process (this is what happens when Ted has an idea while recording).
List where this process would benefit the mostDescribe your ability to move from “yeah but” to “and”List the people who would go noticed if you employed processes like this.Song: Brad & Kate- Flame
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Behind every Olympian is a story. Listen as Ted breaks down how to become fans of all of those you serve. Every child, colleague, friend and loved one has a complicated story and it is always unique. What if we had a way to learn that story? It would be like when we watch the Olympics and learn the Olympians "whole" story and suddenly we become that persons fan.
Describe your biggest fanList the people in your life that will need a fanList who you can interview in order to understand their story -
Welcome to Season 7!
On this episode Ted shares a process to help you preplan for the unexpected. Ted describes the behaviors needed to have an engaged group of leaders and talks about an accident where he observed random buffalo leaders charge into a WAHBL situation. Listen as he discusses the best of the buffaloes -- a 3rd grade teacher who was everything to everyone at this accident scene.
Burning cars, buffaloes, and process!
Describe who in your life is always willing to run to the storm.List the behaviors of the people who run to the storm.Describe what you can do different in order to grow your courage to charge. -
In this episode Ted shares the importance of doing a personal strategic review in the summer by utilizing process and taking clarity breaks. Too often we are not taking time to reflect on what works, what needs iteration and what we need to stop doing in our lives. Take a listen as he shares a simple and tested process to support you growing forward.
List when you will take clarity breaks.Describe who can run your strategic plan out with you.Describe where you will build your plan? -
Too often in summer or between projects we employ retreats to look at results and we create a bunch of documents that rarely get deployed. This usually occurs because people are using lagging data and negotiating on what the culture will allow.
This episode will help frame the need for cultural languages and tools to ensure that what we want to stick - -stays stuck and works. Organizations create binders of steps and yet they fail to start with an evaluation of the organization to measure for capacity, desire, or the skills to employ the changes. No longer!
Describe your change process.List the tools you can use to empower those you serve.Describe where the opportunities are to use processes to support lasting change. -
Ted is sharing books that he believes must be read this summer to help us all grow as leaders. Especially, those that serve children or have children. The curated list of texts are meant to be read in order to help each of us grow. There is a growing crisis on how children are learning and behaving, and these books will help you help the children in your life. Take a listen as Ted shares seven books – in order – that you need to read this summer.
Psych, The Story of the Human Mind: Paul BloomRadical Respect, How to Work Together Better: Kim ScottHidden Potential: Adam GrantMeditations: Marcus AureliusThe Anxious Generation, How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness: Jonathan HaidtThe Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma: Bessel Van Der KolkBryson the Brave Bison: Davenport, Freshwater, and Cowdrey -
When the seasons change, it provides us the opportunity to seek improvement through process. Take a listen as Ted describes a process to help you find the joy in your life. We choose to enJOY our work and there are two hungers we have to feed- ourselves and our passions.
Describe what your passions are.List the people who could be coached to reflect upon their passions.List who you trust to guide you through a reflective process.Describe how you can increase your own ability to be engaged and self-empowered. -
How do we get more children and adults to read? Take a listen as Ted shares a strategy for increasing the amount of children reading. It all boils down to one key idea -- if we want children to read - -the adults have to read!
List who you should read with.Describe the books you like to read verses the books others like to read. .List the books you'd like to read with others. -
How will you remember this school year? Take a listen as Ted explains a process to use to help you and your system reflect - with intention - in an effort to create a realistic memory of the year. Learn how to identify the peaks, the pits and the transitions so that you can celebrate and acknowledge the real journey and use the information to better serve your classroom, school or system in the future.
Describe how you can increase the awareness of others while on the journey.List who would benefit from reviewing the peaks, pits, and transitions.Describe how you can solidify the memory of the end. -
Ever wonder how memory is impacted by emotions, or how the amount of books in your home informs your child's intellectual skills, or how electronics are impacting development or what AI is doing to the brain? Wonder no longer -- these and many more questions are answered in this conversation with Jared as we explore the brain and his newest research and discoveries.
Find him: https://www.youtube.com/@JaredCooney
Song: Andrew Hoyt - Dance with Somebody
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