Leading the Next Generation with Tim Elmore

Because Generation Z is future-focused, they’ve begun to feel helpless and hopeless as a result of this global pandemic. Many feel the coronavirus is stealing their futures. Yet, while resilience is a core skill set, Generation Z will need their own version of it. In this episode, Tim Elmore and Andrew McPeak share six practical…

Public education has been founded upon memorization and testing for over a century. While we all agree we must do more than drill our students to memorize curriculum, remembering information will always play a role in learning. Today, millions of teachers face an even more arduous task of doing all of this remotely. So, what…

In the midst of a global pandemic, there is one essential leadership trait that we must focus on developing in today’s students and young adults. In this episode, Tim Elmore and Andrew McPeak reveal this leadership trait, explain what it looks like, and provide you with practical steps to develop it in the emerging generation.…

Over the past few years, a new form of literacy has become more well-known now that it has proven to be a future indicator of student success. In this episode, Tim Elmore and Andrew McPeak reveal this form of literacy, provide the background behind it, and share practical steps you can take to utilize it…

Because the month of October is Emotional Intelligence Awareness month, it’s a great opportunity to have conversations with the young adults in your life about it. At its core, emotional intelligence is the management of one’s emotions. It’s about reading yourself and reading others. In this episode, Tim Elmore and Andrew McPeak share some practical…

One of our most important jobs as leaders is to prepare today’s emerging adults for the harsh realities ahead while maintaining a positive narrative. If we fail to lead them well, millions will enter their careers with crippling anxiety. In this episode, Tim Elmore and Andrew McPeak share a few practical steps to helping prepare…

Most of us weren’t quite sure what would happen when the nationwide quarantine was mandated and both parents and their kids found themselves attempting to work from home in spring of 2020. What we now realize is that those students and their parents agree on one thing: Virtual learning didn’t work too well. In this episode,…

The evolution of public education was both intentional and accidental. The more adults created systems to control a child’s developmental process, the less those kids matured. Better grades didn’t always translate into better people. Academic success does not equal maturation. Nor does it translate into career readiness. In this episode, Tim Elmore and Andrew McPeak…

In the Spring of 2020, a global pandemic brought challenges that no one could have predicted. Millions were infected worldwide. In the midst of very public problems, however, a silent and hidden mental health crisis emerged in our youngest population. This group of students now faces some major challenges including increased levels of stress and…

Most Americans reluctantly returned home in the spring of 2020 in obedience to our government’s “shelter in place” order. Tens of millions began working from home to stay safe from COVID-19. One of the issues leaders need to consider is what it will look like once we return to public life. We are going to…

The rise in mental health issues in our students today should give every one of us pause. It is astoundingly high. Anxiety and depression in high school kids have been on the rise since the early 2000s. It is a reality that crosses all demographics, urban, suburban, and rural; and among adolescents who are college-bound…

Due to the coronavirus, this season of life is testing all of our technological abilities. Our success in this season will be dependent on how well we adapt to the abilities of the technology around us. To effectively lead Generation Z virtually, we need to become more tech-savvy. In this episode, Tim Elmore and Andrew…

Because of COVID-19’s impact on schools around the world, educators have had to adjust to a digital classroom. As a result, many faculty members struggled to get up to speed using a laptop or desktop to deliver their curriculum. Many had never taught anything using a screen unless it was a screen in a live…

Have you noticed what’s happening around our country? Psychologists call it all-or-nothing thinking. It’s when a person assumes certain things like my life is either awesome or it’s terrible, my job is either fantastic or it’s disgusting, or I am either beautiful or I am ugly. This mindset means you have only two options: things…

People across the world are now adjusting to life in social isolation thanks to the COVID-19 outbreak. In this episode, Tim Elmore and Andrew McPeak share six practical tips from veteran astronaut Scott Kelly’s experience living in social isolation during his time on four space flights. Resources: Home Chats Contact: podcast@growingleaders.com Social Media: @GrowingLeaders, @TimElmore…