We recently wrote a post on shared values and the important way those shared values, when lived in practice, can help the organization. This is especially true when parents and students trust the invitation to join teachers and school leaders to contribute to student success.  Trust is essential in an efficacious and healthy organization. Stephen Covey described it as the bank account leaders needed to successfully lead the organization. Thinking of it as a bank account or a bucket filling one drop of water at a time, the trust account is filled by daily actions and decisions. You can withdraw from it...an important feature since some of a leader's work involves confidentiality...as long as it gets replenished. Sometimes decisions need to be made that are not easily accepted by those who must carry them out or live with them.

Without the trust of and between the members of the organization, no leader can successfully plan and implement any sustainable change.   Read more...