Restart Your Career To Be more Successful
I help school leaders who are struggling to manage the daily demands of monitoring student progress, observing teachers, compliance deadlines, emergencies and other interruptions. They feel overwhelmed, stressed, exhausted and don’t know what to do.
From Stress to Success
Overcome Stress, Lead With Purpose, and Transform Your School
From Stress to Success
Overcome stress, lead with purpose, and transform your school
Restart Your Career To Be more Successful
Increase your energy by 2x, generate 3x meaningful conversation
About Me
For 12 years, as a high school administrator, I have wrestled with the daily demands of the job: seemingly endless deadlines, unceasing interruptions, and unlimited fires to put out. Often, the best planned days result in chaos. I felt overwhelmed and stressed. I often wondered how long I could maintain the pace and continue to be effective. The burden of leadership rested heavily on my shoulders as everyone looked to me for solutions to the latest problem, forgetting the last miracle I performed. I started to ask, “How do I continue to do this work without being burned out?”
I knew that I had to take charge and make some changes. I started researching, reading, and investigating a whole range of ideas, strategies, and processes to find the answer to my situation. After a lot of time, effort, and money, I worked out the right combination of tools, methods, systems, and procedures that started to have a positive impact in both my working and personal lives. I found new ways of thinking and communicating and developed habits that transformed my leadership and the school. I got more in touch with what I truly valued and what I truly wanted to accomplish as a school leader and as a human being.
Armed with this new knowledge, a new mindset, and new habits, my desire is to help other administrators find the same calm in the eye of the storm. I want schools to be excellent and equitable, but I know that they can’t get there unless their leaders, essential to any change that happens, are balanced, healthy, energized, and clear-thinking. This is my contribution to the important work schools do in transforming individuals and society. Transform the leaders, I realized, and the students, the teachers, the organization, and the world will inevitably be transformed.
David Allen holds a school building license and school district license for the state of New York, as well as a high school English teaching license. He is an ACC-certified coach, trained to help leaders transform. He is also versed in restorative practices through the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility in New York City and is currently pursuing a doctorate in education policy and leadership at American University in Washington, DC. David has won numerous awards as a writer and is a powerful public speaker.
This program Is For?
School leaders who want to transform their schools but are stressed out by their work.
Principals in high-paced schools facing burnout.
School leaders who want to manage their time and themselves more effectively.
School leaders who want to bring more personal mastery to the process of educating students.
This program Is Not For?
Principals not willing to try new approaches.
School leaders that are not willing to reflect on their practice.
School leaders that are not willing to do the work required to grow.
School leaders that are not willing to carve out time to manage their time.
MODULE ONE
Win Your Mindset
OUTCOME
Understand how and why we sometimes negotiate with ourselves.
Explore your regular discussions .
Discover a range of tools to use these self-negotiations to great effect.
DESCRIPTION
We all have that little voice that keeps us from achieving what we want. It may be the perfectionist, the pleaser, or the avoider, among other voices inside us, and they can sabotage any goals we make. In this module, you will identify the specific negotiations that entangle you and learn how to anticipate, quieten, and transcend them, clearing the way to execute your plans and succeed.
MODULE TWO
Win Your Wisdom
OUTCOME
Uncover how your voice of wisdom seeks to aid you with your goals.
Learn how to access your voice of wisdom any time to make the best decisions.
Strengthen your voice of wisdom.
DESCRIPTION
As leaders, we can be pressured on all sides. It seems impossible to think clearly rather than react, sometimes inappropriately. In this module, you will learn how to access your voice of wisdom, in every situation, so you can make clear and powerful decisions, when it matters most.
MODULE THREE
Win Your Primary Focus
OUTCOME
Learn the power of your Primary Focus.
Identify your Primary Focus to win the quarter.
Discover how to organize your month, week and day around your Primary Focus, to be most effective.
DESCRIPTION
There seems to be a never-ending list of competing interests from parents, teachers, students and even ourselves. In this module, you will explore what your Primary Focus is and how to identify your next primary focus consistently to get things done and achieve your goals.
MODULE FOUR
Win Your Morning
OUTCOME
Understand the power of a morning routine.
Own the first hour of your day.
Explore strategies to always have time to organize your day without disruption.
DESCRIPTION
We have all been there… we hit the alarm button, hurriedly get ready, rush out the door, maybe drop off the children. At school, we are immediately bombarded. Sound familiar? In this module, you will learn how to avoid situations like this and win your mornings from the moment you wake up.
MODULE FIVE
Win Your School Day
OUTCOME
Discover the power of focus blocks.
Develop a plan to block out focused time to work on priority tasks.
Learn how to protect and maximize your focus blocks.
DESCRIPTION
We all have the best intentions; our to-do list has all of our main priorities listed, but again there are crises, disruptions, fires to put out, and they stay on that list; to be tackled another day! In this module, we uncover how to avoid pushing things into another day, blocking time to get things done, and having days you control rather than ones that control you.
MODULE SIX
Win Your Boundaries
OUTCOME
Understand the need for healthy boundaries to preserve your effectiveness.
Establish boundaries within the day.
Establish a routine for the end of the day.
DESCRIPTION
We have not eaten all day–again, and it’s not only our stomach that is running on empty. We stay late, for one more thing. We miss dinner or another event with our partner or child–again. In this module, you will learn how to set and keep the boundaries you need to thrive, ensuring that all areas of your life get the attention they deserve.
MODULE SEVEN
Win Your Help
OUTCOME
Understand the essentiality of delegating.
Clarify your school responsibilities to identify the help you need to succeed.
Recruit one helper for each responsibility.
DESCRIPTION
We can feel that we are doing too many things and none of them are getting done as well as we want them to be. This module will show you how to clarify the scope of your responsibilities, and recruit help for each responsibility, so you can build an effective team and achieve more together.
MODULE EIGHT
Win Your Delegating
OUTCOME
Demystify how to effectively delegate to accomplish your goals.
Learn how to set and clarify expectations .
Discover the effective use of accountability.
DESCRIPTION
We can all hold on to tasks far too long because we can be afraid to depend on others because they don't accomplish tasks the way we do. Having the time to train them can also feel a bit daunting. In this module, you will make help helpful, take the burden off you, and successfully distribute leadership.
MODULE NINE
Win Your Evening
OUTCOME
Understand the need to implement a primary focus that is not attached to school.
Set and keep your personal primary focus .
Discover how to be present and spend quality time with loved ones.
DESCRIPTION
As leaders, our loved ones and others who depend on us outside of school may feel short-changed because we spent many evenings trying to figure out school problems. In this module, you will master how to protect your time and energy and willingly commit to spending time with your loved ones, without being distracted by work.
MODULE TEN
Win Your Counterbalance
OUTCOME
Learn why counterbalancing your life is a better goal than balancing it.
Identify your evening responsibilities in which to achieve counterbalance.
Determine who, when, where and how for each responsibility.
DESCRIPTION
We often feel guilty because someone or something seems to always be neglected. In this module, you will learn to give yourself enough grace and gain know-how to focus on your current Primary Focus and then counterbalance with the other things that may be put off momentarily.
MODULE ELEVEN
Win Your Habits and Routines
OUTCOME
Review takeaway habits and routines.
Plan how to ritualize them in the future.
Record them in calendars and/or checklists.
DESCRIPTION
We have all been there before: we gained amazing skills but feared we would not retain them. In this module, you will learn how to memorialize and lock in your learnings with concrete plans of how you will use them in the future.
MODULE TEWELVE
Win Your Celebration and Reset
OUTCOME
Identify and celebrate your wins.
Identify opportunities for growth.
Reset for the next three months.
DESCRIPTION
Sometimes we know that we have grown immensely, but we have a tendency to obsess on what still needs to change. In this module, you will pause to recognize the victories, acknowledge opportunities for continued growth and answer the question, “What next?”
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