Successful difficult conversations

Category: Creating a Great Vision

Christmas.. always a special time of the year, and always a bit of a headache finding that little something different without breaking the bank! And so, Kay our very own angel 🙂 has put together some great gift ideas for you:  Something that almost everyone would love is a gift from Boomf.  They do nine gorgeously […]

I worked with the team at Capel Manor Primary school to help them create their vision and several years on it’s still one of my favourites:        

I believe a vision is a necessary courtesy of leadership. If I want you to follow me then really I need to tell you where we’re going. If I don’t then would you follow me? Probably not, and if you did you wouldn’t be able to contribute as much as you could because you wouldn’t […]

I love a picnic!  Every summer I get as many friends and loved ones together in a London park and we have a fab time picnicking and as we’re getting into picnic weather I thought I’d share a few of my favourite salads.  Now I know salad sounds boring but trust me these are delicious […]

I know you want everyone to know your vision.  But if they can say it near enough word perfect then you should be worried. Why?  Because the chances are they know the words not the meaning?  A bit like when a child can say numbers but doesn’t have a concept of number.   I was […]

Thank you to those of you who helped me decide the design for our new Heads Up bag, I really like it and I hope you do too 🙂

Finished working with one of my schools on a Journey to Outstanding programme today and they gave me this!  So sweet of them!  Such an amazing team to work with and I will miss them very much.  It’s been an utter pleasure to work with you, thank you ladies 🙂

You remember the marmite adverts: Love it/Hate it. I’m definitely in the hate it camp! Well I think a vision should be a bit like marmite. People should love it or hate it. Well maybe not hate it, but not like it at least. The worst visions are those that no-one feels strongly about…the ones […]

A quick blog to wish you a very happy new year! I don’t know about you but I always get excited at this time of year, a whole new year ahead of us..what will it hold Ok, I’m not forgetting that January can be a bit…grey…and that my jeans are a bit tighter than they were pre-Christmas! […]

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 […]