Success Stories

Key strategies for principals to boost operational efficiency.

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A teacher who is giving a class.
Erline Han
Studio Manager Educational Consultant
A boy in the classroom.

As an institutional principal, it is important to manage staff effectively in campus management, which can greatly improve the efficiency of various campus tasks. How to motivate employees to improve work efficiency? How to enhance team collaboration? How to establish one's own authority?

By doing these things well, the principal can improve the "combat effectiveness" of employees:

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Management system

Without rules, there can be no square.

Strict management systems can regulate employee behavior and enhance the tacit understanding of direct cooperation among employees. Therefore, it is required to establish a rigorous and standardized management system.

The management system should have a unified description of the responsibilities and requirements of each position.

Every employee can clearly understand what they do, who they report to, what rights they have, and what responsibilities they bear.

Of course, this restriction should not be too strict, but it must be in place. By establishing reasonable norms, employees will act within their prescribed scope.

After formulating regulations, the principal should attach importance to them and supervise their implementation, otherwise the system will be meaningless and reduce the authority of the principal.

Communication efficiency

Improving communication efficiency is one of the important ways to enhance work efficiency. Sometimes, communication barriers stem from a lack of trust between principals and employees.

Touching employees with sincerity and genuinely caring for them can improve communication efficiency and reduce communication barriers.

Respect employees, give them full information rights, allow them to have their own emotions, understand their grievances and difficulties, and give emotional value.

Regular communication is needed between employees and between employees and leaders to solicit their opinions on the development of the school, listen to their questions, and provide their own opinions on these opinions and questions - what is acceptable? What is unacceptable? Why?

Give pressure

Providing employees with appropriate pressure can stimulate their potential, enhance their work abilities, and provide a greater sense of achievement.

You can create and design some challenge opportunities to stimulate employees to pursue higher performance. When employees feel that they can receive continuous support, improve their personal abilities, and learn new things in their work, they will have more work passion.

Train employees

Cultivating people is a very important part of the principal's job.

If you don't cultivate people, your team won't grow. If you do the teacher's job yourself, then your business won't have a big direction to expand. It is difficult to achieve a qualitative leap in business. As the business grows, it will be tiring, and you will also feel particularly tired.

Finally, it was discovered that you became a burden for this team. Although you are a boss, nothing can be separated from you. It's impossible to do anything without you, but your ability alone is very limited, so you may drag down this enterprise.

How to cultivate people? Method: Simply put, it's about riding a horse and taking a walk.

Step 1: Explain the reason for doing so

Cultivating patience in people is the same as educating children to have patience. To tell them why they need to do it, don't just tell them, go ahead and do it, be sure to tell them why they need to do it.

Step 2: Steps and Key Points

For this matter, do you have a detailed plan, do you have a detailed methodology, and patiently hand over this methodology to the person you want to cultivate.

Step 3: Task Standard Time

Just tell him what the standards are for each time point and how to do it?

Step 4: Follow up and provide serious guidance

Let the employees do it, what the principal needs to do is to follow and correct for N hours.

Watching him do it from the side, telling him to correct his mistakes, correcting them again, and correcting them again.

Continuously encouraging him, correcting him, and helping him gradually enables him to be independent.

Give timely praise

Criticize if you don't do well, praise if you do well. Recognition at work can increase employees' sense of achievement, which can motivate them to work enthusiastically.

Public reward standards. To make employees aware of the reward standards and the reasons why others receive rewards.

Give praise and rewards in a public manner. If praise and rewards are not made public, not only will they lose their effectiveness, but they will also cause a lot of rumors and gossip.

Timely rewards. If rewards are given only after a long time has passed, it will greatly weaken the impact of rewards.

Erline Han

Erline Han

Studio Manager Educational Consultant

A fine teacher established my own studio and, within five years, grew it from 27 students to over 300 students. I expanded from one studio to three, and have compiled solutions to common challenges encountered in daily operations to help other teachers better manage their own studios.