Welcome back to Beyond the Tour where twice a month you'll receive practical tips and resources to help you get better at what you do. No fluff. All business. 

 

Let's do this. 

If You Do One Thing This Week:

1. ⏲️ Trim your meeting time.  

Here's a crazy idea: Schedule meetings for 20 minutes as a default. 

 

A meeting scheduled for an hour will take an hour, and you probably don't need that much time to address the issue. You can create productive and directed conversation by putting boundaries around meeting time. 

 

See where you can trim. Take back time in your day so you can breathe, connect with colleagues, get through your work. 

 

Just get started. Change those meeting invites today.

2 Tips to DO MORE:

2. 📋 Create checklists. Make your life easier.  

Create a checklist for student visits. Don't recreate the wheel each time. Include elements like: 

Use the summer to create systems to make your life easier in the fall. 

3. 🎯 Review your Inquiry Form.

This is a lovely time to review your Inquiry Form. Make it as lean as possibe to lower the barrier for families to take that first step to inquiry (and share information with you). 

 

How to get started?  Read more 🔽

The Inquiry Form is a customer service tool. Use every opportunity to make a good impression on your future families. 

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