PAC Training

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PAC Training

• Steps to Success
• Procedures, Attitude, and Communication

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The Circle of Success
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Procedures

• Heads Up Or Duck!!!

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Why procedures?

• Balancing
• Cost of government
• Accountability
• ISD Plan
• Federal State Laws
• Union contracts
• LEA Schedules
• Bussing Schedules
• IEPs
• .

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Youre responsibility

• Know what is in the administrative guide
• Read your contract
• Know how to locate board policy on the web
• Follow the rules, procedures, guidelines

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Definitions

• Pre-approval getting permission ahead of time in
  writing from the director
• Insubordination noncompliance with district
  procedures, guidelines, laws, and/or
  administrative directives.

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What you focus on expands

• Get ahead and stay ahead
• Build follow through and follow up into your
  schedule
• Use the tools available to you to schedule

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Attitude

• Its about protecting the
• egg not the ego!

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Let it go!!!!!

• Note card activity
• Model respect to students, co-workers, parents.
• Who holds the key to your happiness, stress, or
  success?
• Accept the shortcomings of others.

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Beliefs

• Hope is the predecessor to responsibility
• Negative beliefs can create self imposed limits
• You have a professional responsibility to keep a
  positive attitude.

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Boundaries Stress

• Taking work home
• Bringing personal issues to work
• Professional vs. Friend
• Reducing stress brainstorming a list

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Circles of DestinyAcheiveMax Inc
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Communication

• Mandatory Mouth Management

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Why

• Effective communication can reduce tension
• It can increase individual and team interaction
• It can improve individual and team output
• It can increase efficiency
• It can increase self understanding
• It can clarify team member obligations for
  communications

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What are the skills

• Showing appropriate attending behavior
• Paraphrasing
• Reflecting feelings
• Asking open-ended and closed ended questions
• Summarizing

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What are the obstacles

• Incongruous verbals and non-verbals
• Basic disagreement in values
• Lack of technical understanding
• Little or no preparation for meetings
• Interference from noise or outside disturbances
• Language or cultural barriers
• Personality or disposition-based behavior, such
  as introversion or extroversion

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How much is too much

• Reading the body language of the listener
• Explaining, asking, involving
• What about e-mail???

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Avoiding and/or Handling Conflicts

• Follow procedures, processes, and law
• Keep a positive attitude
• Practice good communication skills
• Be a problem solver and walk the Talk

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The story of Paul Revere