You stood in front of your staff, shared the vision, and watched everyone nod. So why does it feel like nobody actually agreed to anything?

In this episode of The 100% Principal, I'm sharing this week's newsletter issue, and it starts with a principal I coach who got blindsided months after his back-to-school meeting. He'd shared his vision. His staff nodded. No objections. Then a teacher looked at him and said, "I never agreed to YOUR vision." That one sentence is the whole episode, because it exposed something most principals get wrong about what a nod actually means.

We'll talk about:

Why a nod in your August staff meeting was never the same thing as agreement
The difference between "resistant to change" and "resistant to being changed," and why it changes how you respond to pushback
Three questions to ask before you decide you have a resistance problem on your hands
What happens to your school, your strongest staff, and your vision when you mistake pushback for opposition

This is one of those episodes that's going to change how you hear the next complaint that lands on your desk.

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