The Strategic Growth Gear
The sixth and final episode in the 5 Gears series, today’s episode focuses on the Strategic Growth Gear. This episode looks a little different from others in the series because strategic growth is not just about building other systems or how to optimize other systems — it’s about really understanding when and how to expand your impact.
You’ll learn the four distinct paths of growth:
- Internal – Strengthening what you already have. This can look like creating leadership pipelines or enhancing your current programs.
- External – Your traditional market expansion. It includes opening up new locations, expanding to new neighborhoods, and creating pop-up programs.
- Vertical – Increasing your depth of impact. This is about adding advanced programs and extending your services.
- Horizontal – Broadening your impact through new revenue streams. It could be creating new training programs, developing new educational materials, or taking things that you’ve done and actually writing curriculum books.
💡Important → Choosing the wrong path is not just ineffective. It can actually destabilize every single thing that you’ve built.
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More about the show:
If you are an Early Childhood director or owner, prepare to transform your school and life with the Schools of Excellence podcast. Tune in each week to learn from Chanie Wilschanski, the founder and host of the Schools of Excellence Podcast and a mom of 4 little kids. Each episode will be packed with tools and strategies – equipping you to build schools with higher staff retention, teacher motivation, parent partnership, collaborative culture, and beautiful quality of life.
Every week, Chanie shares the truth about the journey to excellence, the strategies that are working TODAY, and the mindset about the critical decisions and choices that you make every day which impact yourself, your teachers, parents, family, and children who you serve every day.
In addition to weekly solo episodes, she’ll also be inviting industry leaders and the changing makers of the landscape of education to give listeners the inside knowledge of what it takes to sustain excellence.
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