Not in Charge #2 - The Family?

Welcome to this episode of Your Morning Boost, brought to you by AWB Education. AWB Education is your partner in school leadership and is here to help you with your educational programming needs. You can find more episodes like this one, along with our offerings of support and consultation, at AWB education dot org. Here is your host, Adam Bush. Welcome to another installment of our series Not in Charge. This episode, we are going to discuss how you can manage working within a team and make sure your voice is heard. Maybe you've been lucky and every single team you've worked on in your career has allowed you the opportunity to be fully transparent, vulnerable, an active participant in all phases of the work. Based on the nearly hundreds of books on my bookshelf and how to work in teams, how to gain trust, I would say that the type of team I've previously described as likely a rarity versus the norm in most schools and school districts are heck, even most organizations in general. I know the teams that I lead really want to have full input from everybody and feel the best when we get to the end of the work and everyone was actively engaged in the work that doesn't typically happen, and it certainly won't happen by chance. It does take a lot of work to build a team correctly and to get to a stage where members of the team feel safe enough to lower their guardrails to work fully as a team. Author and president of Bright Morning Consulting Elena Aguilar, many of her books, including the twenty twenty Coaching for Equity, describes her concept of rumbling, and I've always loved that term. She uses her term of rumbling frequently in her books as this can apply to and can be seen in many different forms of teamwork. It's really similar to how a family operates. Families can certainly rumble, and to an outsider looking it may seem like the conversations, the interactions and attitudes. Ay, maybe they're dysfunctional, but only when a level of trust in each other, which is similar to a family dynamic. When this trust is created within a team, then the team itself can function and as a whole unit. There have been many times my own family that discussions have been heated, maybe even some things were said during moments of emotion that were later regretted or even really required an apology. However, this type of trust in each other, that at the end of the day, everyone cared for each other and wanted to see the family succeed in the end. That is what we're looking for in our teams. No one person can ever require this from our teams. This type of trust has to be built from within. It takes time. It takes moments of adjustment and reflection to ever get to the point where a team can rumble and grow to get better. From a leadership standpoint, we need to spend the time it takes to build trust in our team so that when the moment comes, we're able to move forward as a family. Heck, even the Hatfields of McCoy's worked within their own groups to reach common goals. It can be done. This has been your Morning Boost, brought to you by AWB Education. Find us at AWB education dot org to find out how we can help you with your education programming needs. If you enjoy this episode, please take a quick minute to leave a rating and review to help us reach even more people. Otherwise, enjoy the workday, lead with your heart and we will see you next time.