Month: July 2020

This past week I reviewed the VUCA leadership concept to determine whether it could serve as a potential framework for helping superintendents and their teams as they plan to reopen schools sometime this year.  I found the concept useful as it was designed to address crisis conditions and to assist leaders in breaking down the volume of information confronted when dealing with challenges like COVID-19.  In today’s post, I want to unpack the concept a bit and outline how it might be valuable.  If you have never heard of VUCA keep reading as it might be of interest to you …

Superintendents and their teams are faced with making many of tough decisions right now regarding the upcoming school year.  The challenge with these decisions is that we are in uncertain times, guidance from the state and federal levels shifts frequently, and our stakeholders are not on the same page in terms of their desires. School districts are conducting surveys and gathering as much information as possible to ensure the decisions they make best serve the needs of their students, staff and community.  The problem is that we can’t always conduct a survey on every issue we encounter, but we can …