Amidst an ongoing pandemic and constant business pressure, we must still pay attention to wellness for ourselves and our organizations.
Independent schools are always looking for — and finding — new innovations in their business operations. For the first time this year, NBOA recognized those schools with a new award, the Jeffrey Shields Award for Innovat
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Human Resources
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Leadership
Research on productivity shows that taking breaks is vital to sustaining your attention for long periods of time.
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Leadership
How can school leaders continue creating change within their organizations?
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.
Providing volunteer leadership in sports and other pursuits has taught this business officer diverse lessons.
Sharing real funds with students and mentoring their business and investment acumen has literally paid dividends, in the $100,000s.
Successful leadership requires knowing your default style and strengthening other approaches to meet each moment most effectively.
CEO Notebook
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Communication
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Leadership
When school leaders listen in focused and systematic ways, they can help their teams broaden their contributions and create conditions for creative confidence.
Strategies
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Diversity and Inclusion
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Human Resources
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Leadership
Through concerted hiring efforts, senior leadership at Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences is nearly half people of color.
Projections
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Change Management
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Leadership
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Pandemic
As light from the tunnel’s end comes into focus, our charge is to maintain the spirit of innovation through the pandemic’s final stages and beyond.
The trends and events of this past year reminds us that change is a constant in our profession and across the educational, social, economic, and political landscape.
CEO Notebook
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Change Management
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Leadership
Opening ourselves to new ideas and creating the conditions for creative confidence among our teams can go a long way in advancing the future of independent schools.
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Communication
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Leadership
What happens when trustees, staff, faculty, donors and other keystones of the school community learn more about independent school finances? Greater trust and sense of community.
Observing her children inspired this business officer to pursue her passion for writing and publish a book.
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Change Management
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Pandemic
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Technology
Moving to cloud-based processes — and the holy grail of systems integration — is not a matter of if but when. “We’re no longer moving incrementally.”
CEO Notebook
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Change Management
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Pandemic
These schools have capitalized on their strengths to serve essential community needs and build a stronger financial future.
Projections
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Human Resources
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Leadership
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Pandemic
While we have reason for optimism in the coming year, we must continue to adapt our human resources strategy to nurture our school communities.
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Hiring
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Human Resources
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Leadership
When searching for a new business officer, look for a multifaceted communicator who can manage the myriad intersections of business, operations, mission and vision.
This year’s recipients have dedicated years of service to the profession, our association and to schools far and wide.
