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I first met head teacher Lisa at one of the Successful Difficult Conversations training days I run and she later booked me for the next stage of the course ‘Flexing your Leadership Style’ which I ran with her leadership team. During the course of the day, we talked about issues that were ‘bubbling’ away in […]
Conflict is a daily part of life as a leader; sometimes it’s big, sometimes it’s small, usually it lands on us, but if you want be the best leader you can be, and create the best school culture you can, then you need to look for conflict. I don’t mean you go ‘spoiling for a […]
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Does this sound familiar? Does every year seem to pan out, roughly, as follows? If so there is a very good reason. September; it’s a new academic year and it started fairly well, the children are generally eager to please, staff are refreshed and ready to go, classrooms are tidy, books are new and the […]
I work with schools to develop their vision and get it out to the team so that it does the job a vision should do: inspire action and make it happen. If you want to create a really great vision you need to know your values. Every school I’ve worked in has a vision and […]
As a head teacher your staff team are your class, apply the same principles and you will do well. However leading children is different to adults. When I work with school leaders, they often tell me about the issues they have with some members of staff: some will be about performance, some about behaviour. Very […]
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1. Does it have a moral imperative? You work in a school. Ok, that’s obvious. But just by working in a school you must have a moral reason for doing what you do. And I’ll wager it’s more than just to educate your children. That’s a tool to achieve something else. So what are you […]
I love this infographic by officevibe and it really relates to difficult conversations – where we try to un-zombify people!This infographic was crafted with love by Officevibe, the employee engagement solution that helps engage employees, so they don’t become THE WORKING DEAD.