The Smart Thinking Podcast Ted Neitzke IV

Too often in summer or between projects we employ retreats to look at results and we create a bunch of documents that rarely get deployed.  This usually occurs because people are using lagging data and negotiating on what the culture will allow.
This episode will help frame the need for cultural languages and tools to ensure that what we want to stick - -stays stuck and works. Organizations create binders of steps and yet they fail to start with an evaluation of the organization to measure for capacity, desire, or the skills to employ the changes. No longer!
Describe your change process.
List the tools you can use to empower those you serve.
Describe where the opportunities are to use processes to support lasting change.

Ted is sharing books that he believes must be read this summer to help us all grow as leaders. Especially, those that serve children or have children. The curated list of texts are meant to be read in order to help each of us grow. There is a growing crisis on how children are learning and behaving, and these books will help you help the children in your life. Take a listen as Ted shares seven books – in order – that you need to read this summer.
 
Psych, The Story of the Human Mind: Paul Bloom
Radical Respect, How to Work Together Better: Kim Scott
Hidden Potential: Adam Grant
Meditations: Marcus Aurelius
The Anxious Generation, How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness: Jonathan Haidt
The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma: Bessel Van Der Kolk
Bryson the Brave Bison: Davenport, Freshwater, and Cowdrey

When the seasons change, it provides us the opportunity to seek improvement through process. Take a listen as Ted describes a process to help you find the joy in your life. We choose to enJOY our work and there are two hungers we have to feed- ourselves and our passions.
 
Describe what your passions are.
List the people who could be coached to reflect upon their passions.
List who you trust to guide you through a reflective process.
Describe how you can increase your own ability to be engaged and self-empowered.
 
 

How do we get more children and adults to read? Take a listen as Ted shares a strategy for increasing the amount of children reading. It all boils down to one key idea -- if we want children to read - -the adults have to read!
List who you should read with.
Describe the books you like to read verses the books others like to read. .
List the books you'd like to read with others. 

How will you remember this school year? Take a listen as Ted explains a process to use to help you and your system reflect - with intention - in an effort to create a realistic memory of the year. Learn how to identify the peaks, the pits and the transitions so that you can celebrate and acknowledge the real journey and use the information to better serve your classroom, school or system in the future.
 
Describe how you can increase the awareness of others while on the journey.
List who would benefit from reviewing the peaks, pits, and transitions.
Describe how you can solidify the memory of the end. 

Ever wonder how memory is impacted by emotions, or how the amount of books in your home informs your child's intellectual skills, or how electronics are impacting development or what AI is doing to the brain? Wonder no longer -- these and many more questions are answered in this conversation with Jared as we explore the brain and his newest research and discoveries. 
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Song: Andrew Hoyt - Dance with Somebody