Take the Temperature for 2025

Halloween has come and gone, and Thanksgiving is just around the corner. The time for end-of-year planning is here. As a leader, you likely have your quantitative data and numbers lined up for analysis. But it’s also worthwhile to take a softer focus. This is a good opportunity to carve out time with your key staff and take their temperatures. Sit down individually for transparent discussions about strengths and weaknesses, the culture of your center, the stressors that may have negatively impacted them, their hopes for the future and more. Then it would be useful to agree on achievable goals for the next year. When you’re done, honestly take your own temperature on all of those things.

A great leader inclusively reflects on the past year to make the next one even better.