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Accelerate Your Performance

Studer Education

Accelerate Your Performance is a weekly podcast hosted by Dr. Janet Pilcher, Managing Director of Studer Education and author of Hardwiring Excellence in Education. Every week, Janet highlights tactical and actionable strategies that leaders in educational organizations can hardwire to meet successful student, service, and people outcomes. Listen now, and you’ll see why it’s ranked by ListenNotes in the top 5% of podcasts worldwide.

As she introduces a variety of pivotal leadership practices from the 9 Pillars of Leadership Excellence, Janet underscores the importance of seamlessly integrating each practice to deliver positive and impactful results. For each leadership practice she introduces, Janet provides a solid foundation and then collaborates with coaching experts to dig deeper and demonstrate its practical application. Janet also interviews leaders and partners who excel at the tactics to hear about their implementation journeys, hurdles they’ve faced,

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455 episodes

  1. Using Everyday Actions to Make Strategic Plans Successful 9:37
  2. Using Feedback to Improve: The Plus/Delta Process 20:18
  3. Learn From Lived Experiences - Part 2 15:42
  4. Learn From Lived Experiences - Part 1 18:36
  5. The Power of People, Work, & Mattering: Reflecting on 450 Episodes 7:50
  6. Listen to Learn, Act to Improve 20:32
  7. Build Stronger Teams by Including Students and Families 24:55
  8. Show Gratitude for the Gift Called "Teacher" 17:35
  9. Care, Concern, and Community 16:21
  10. Getting and Keeping Team Members Engaged: Part 2 22:18
  11. Getting and Keeping Team Members Engaged: Part 1 18:02
  12. Drive Improvement Through Leading and Learning 25:49
  13. The Bottom Line 11:40
  14. Know Your "Why" 18:23
  15. Become a Student of Leadership 19:15
  16. Change Is Everyday Business 11:50
  17. Change Organizational Culture With Standards of Excellence 21:48
  18. Enhance the Student Experience with Student Rounding 4:49
  19. Using Scorecards to Keep the Strategic Plan “Alive” 26:15
  20. Add Voice and Value with Rounding and Recognition 16:04
  21. Connecting to Purpose: The Little School District That Could 7:54
  22. Build a Feedback Culture 7:22
  23. Get Aligned: Strategic Plans, Scorecards, and Measures that Matter 18:17
  24. Listen, Learn, Improve: The Gift of Feedback 16:04
  25. DHP 2026 Virtual K12 Leadership Conference Launch 6:50
  26. Words Have Power 4:38
  27. From Survey Results to Real Growth 28:53
  28. Lead With a People-First Mindset 15:40
  29. Service Matters: Lead With Excellence 14:52
  30. Use Words With Purpose 9:33
  31. Tackle Communication Barriers 11:48
  32. Pillar 3: Communicate for Alignment 11:36
  33. Power of the Pause: Reflecting on How to Improve Processes 22:37
  34. 9 Pillars of Leadership Excellence: An Operating System for Results 17:11
  35. Change Your Organization’s Culture One Conversation at a Time 18:09
  36. Small Conversations, Big Impact: Strengthening Culture Through Rounding 16:03
  37. Building Lasting Impact with 9 Pillars for Leadership Excellence 8:07
  38. Express Gratitude for Those on Your Journey 9:19
  39. The Case for Celebrating Bright Spots 6:42
  40. Keep Your Organizational Flywheel Spinning with Gratitude 5:53
  41. Culture and Strategy Go Hand in Hand 24:31
  42. Achieve Equity Through Systems Alignment 20:44
  43. Stop the Blame Cycle: 3 Steps to Process Improvement 5:32
  44. Cut Through the Noise: 3 Steps to Build Board and Community Trust 5:18
  45. Retention Is Your Strategy: 3 Leader Actions to Secure Talent 5:08
  46. The Precision Budget: 3 Steps to Protect What's Important 4:51
  47. Use Feedback to Unlock Operational Excellence 15:41
  48. Getting 1% Better Every Day 21:03
  49. Why Coaching and Improvement Work Never Ends 17:12
  50. Serve Others with Great Care and Concern 17:53