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I keep beating the same old drum that I have before, but until we stop seeing media chanting about elite boarding schools and adequate financial and other support for remote families who have no choice but to send their kids away from home to receive an adequate, holistic education, it needs to keep being said. When we send our children from a distance education schoolroom in the middle of nowhere, with only siblings as peers, to a city boarding school it is a daunting prospect. However we do it because we know that we are not able to give them experiences and opportunities that they will receive at boarding school. Education is holistic. I am a trained secondary school teacher and I am sure I could teach the secondary DE curriculum, what I know I can’t do though is teach my children how to interact in a group of people, how to communicate with their peers, how to play a sport as a team. At home they can’t get a part time job that is more than just slave labour for their parents, they aren’t able to hang out with their friends after school or go to a birthday party on the weekend … and so much more. There is a saying ‘it takes a village to raise a child’, but where we live we have no village. We therefore send them to an environment where they can be more like their urban peers, where they are supported to thrive, where they have experiences and opportunities available to them that we can’t give them as well as a village around them to help them along the way. Why shouldn’t they get the same opportunities as their urban peers? It is daunting as parents, but a need not a want and when they flourish as my daughter has done and achieve amazing things because of it, whether the media thinks we’re elitists or governments don’t see a need to provide sufficient help to give them these opportunities, we wouldn’t have it any other way.

Why would a leadership bootcamp be a great idea for you to accelerate your career and personal development as a leader? Here are 5 good reasons why being part of it is a must if you aspire to grow (or 5 good reasons why it would be a miss if you don't...) #leadership #careerdevelopment #leadershipdevelopment #bootcamp #makingadifference

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"My kids don't want to take over the family business". That is a painful, personal and (unfortunately) common response I hear from numerous Restoration business owners when I ask them, "What are your succession plans for your business?" or, as a software provider that helps companies run more systematically and in a more process driven manner, another common question I ask, "How well would your business operate next week if you didn't show up?" Questions like these, asked in a respectful manner, often allow us to momentarily look under a rock to expose a signifiant rising threat to the long term viability of the Property Restoration Industry - an emerging leadership-gap. Today's Restoration Industry has been built and led by a generation of leaders that made tremendous sacrifices, working long gruelling hours, often leading to difficult imbalances in their personal lives - imbalance that often spook the rising workforce from aspiring to leadership and management career paths. "I'm not sure if it's worth the tradeoffs" - a common response we hear in conversations with the incoming workforce. So where will the next generation of Restoration Leaders come from? How will we recruit them and enrol them in a career-building mindset? What should their development look like? How do we need to adapt our current management methodology to accommodate their strong preferences (and the preferences of the peers from their generation)? The long-term success of Restoration companies will rest in large part on their ability to attract, recruit, and develop the next generation of management and leadership within their firms - drawing from a new generation that are quite different. At KnowHow this has been the topic of one of our current research efforts, and if our predictions are accurate, the rising 'management gap' is one of the great emerging threats to the Property Restoration Industry of tomorrow - and the subject of our upcoming Fall 2024 Book publication. What is even more exciting, is that this book provides emerging leaders and their mentors will access to over 250 years of wisdom, based on interviews we conducted with a huge cohort of the Industry's most respected leaders. We are very grateful to The Experience and BNP Media for the opportunity to provide the conference's attendees with front row access to the unveiling of our research. Building Leaders: Overcoming the emerging leadership crisis in Property Restoration This book is designed to serve as a roadmap Restoration leaders can follow to develop the next generation of management in their Property Restoration company, based on the timeless advice of seasoned industry leaders. I'm excited! Will I see you in #LasVegas September 4 - 6, 2024? Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gnfk6sHP

You don't want to miss this session. If you want to get involved then get in touch and I can send you the invite to this session 'Adventures in Kindness' where Justin shares his stories of expeditions from around the world and how we can use these to enhance our own leadership skills #businesslinkedteams #learningleadersnetwork #cpd #training #learning #leadership

Here's a short post I wrote for Leadership Reno County alums, encouraging us all to ask powerful questions. This post relates to the Kansas Leadership Center's emphasis on #wheneveryoneleads https://lnkd.in/grDQ8TrD

Today, June 20, 2024, I shared my Leadership Journey Reflections as a Longwood Fellow for 13 months. I shared with the Leadership team and board members of Longwood Gardens and invited guests, my three key takeaways; 1. Nothing happens without people. 2. Impactful outcomes require intentional planning and execution-nothing worthwhile happens by chance. 3. "But how could you live and have no story to tell?" ~Fyodor Dostevsky #Gratitude #PublicHorticultureLeadership #PeopleFirst #StorytellingMagic #FollowTheFellows

This photo I took in Hyde Park last week seems like a great metaphor for leadership. Clearly there’s something in one area that the geese love, and something else in another that the pigeons can’t get enough of, but they’re not the same thing! We need to understand what our teams need from us, whether they’re ‘pigeons’ or ‘geese’, and not just assume they all want the same things. We must always treat others as THEY wish to be treated, not as we might wish to be treated. It's all about cultivating the right environment for each person we lead, to enable them to grow and develop to fulfil their potential. #leadership

#NSLSImpactDay is TOMORROW, September 26. We can’t wait to celebrate your accomplishments and the positive impact the NSLS has had on your leadership journey. Here's how you can participate: https://thens.ls/4gCTmva