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 developing […]

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 🙂

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 […]

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 […]

A common issue I come across for leaders is knowing which leadership style is best.  Sure, we all have a natural preference – mine is to coach people – but that doesn’t mean we’re not capable of using other approaches and, as humans, we can be incredibly good at changing our behaviour.  The problem is […]

(But a lot of people don’t know the difference) We’ve all heard strappy, catchy mottos of a ‘vision’: Love learning throughout lifeBe the bestReach for the starsEvery child matters   Achieve your potential (this one always makes me giggle, because I wonder what do you do when you have achieved it?  I like to think […]

It took me a year to figure this out.  Seriously!  Ok, so not a year only doing this, but a year of coming back, researching more, looking at visions and missions and generally scratching my head until I could understand and explain what the difference was.  So here it is, for you, because you don’t […]