E84 CCS Podcast Series: Part 3 - Understanding, Building, and Sustaining a Professional Organizational Culture
Host Sloan Simmons connects with Brandon Krueger, Ed.D. and Partner Sarah Levitan Kaatz regarding building and sustaining a professional organizational culture. This discussion highlights overarching concepts, practical approaches, and a framework for the extremely important, hard, and sustained work necessary to develop, improve, and maintain a successful, professional organizational culture. Applicable takeaways from this episode can benefit school district leaders, but uniquely governing board members, superintendents, and other members of a district’s leadership cabinet.
Show Notes & References
- 2:48 – Differentiating between culture and climate
- 6:00 – Shifting culture
- 10:15 – Accountability (external and internal)
- 12:45 – Organizational culture work
- 17:11 – Timelines and tailoring trainings to each individual participant
- 22:27 – Bias incident response work example
- 27:09 – Flexibility to encourage participant investment
- 29:49 – Supporting administrators to maintain positive shifts
- 35:05 – Training "bites" and the importance of repetition in learning
- 37:11 – Strategies to combat administrator attrition and retirement
- 41:34 – Reference checks
- 42:10 – New requirements for job applicants and hiring entities (Assembly Bill (AB) 2534) (Client News Brief 47 - November 2024)
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