School business leaders can take a page out of improv actors’ rule book to generate creative solutions.
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Your school’s extraordinary efforts have made an extraordinary impact on your school community.
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Three takeaways from Stephen Sondheim’s storied career can help independent schools face another challenging year — with verve.
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CEO Notebook
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Human Resources
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Leadership
Remote work isn’t in itself an obstacle to building trust among colleagues, but strong results require intentional bridge-building.
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Collaboration between NBOA and NAIS will yield new insights that will help all schools plan strategically.
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Whatever your greatest leadership strength is, it can become a liability — that with sufficient attention, you can correct for and bolster.
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CEO Notebook
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Leadership
Our schools’ missions and values are being put to the test. They should be our guide as we navigate contentious times.
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We have been missing something in our professional development that I am hopeful we can now reclaim, with the appropriate precautions.
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Our schools will need strong business office leadership far beyond our current crises.
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We would do well to continue some aspects of digital meetings developed earlier in the pandemic — but not all of them.
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We are facing another tenuous school year with the spread of the Delta variant, but we can lean on each other for support — and new ideas — to help our schools thrive.
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CEO Notebook
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Hiring
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Performance Management
Recruitment and retention efforts are vital in a hot labor market.
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CEO Notebook
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Change Management
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Culture
If we want to power forward with change and innovation, as we learned we could last year, we might try thinking more like a scientist.
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The next generation of business officers is making connections virtually this week. How will we be meeting and learning from each other next year?
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The data in NBOA’s new Tuition Discounting Report for PK-12 Independent Schools may not be as troubling as related data in higher education, but it is trending in the same direction.
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Delegating can expand your strategic capacity and promote creativity and skill development among your team.
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Relaying your financial story while building trust and buy-in is more than an essential skill, it’s good stewardship.
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CEO Notebook
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Leadership
To eradicate persistent racial inequities, we need transformative solutions. Many are already in motion, but more needs to happen.
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Can airtight debt management and a focus on student retention help us emerge in a better financial position than before the pandemic?
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Our collective, never-ending recognition of the past year as the most challenging, exhausting and memorable of our entire professional careers may soon be in for a reversal of fortune.
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