Being A Meetings Manager
johndabell If you are a middle or senior leader then one of the most important skills you can have is meeting management. Planning and running a meeting is an art. One…
Leadership
What Does Your Team Look Like?
When you consider the people in your team, what sort of mix do you have?
What Is PEST Analysis?
Are you making a pest of yourself?
Are You A Potter Or A Poet?
There is no blueprint for being a teacher or Head teacher but there are ‘types’ we can identify. Terry Deal and Ken Paterson in Shaping School Culture (1999) see school…
Are You A Minimalist Teacher?
Teachers do too much. They take on too much. The job suddenly becomes too much to take. It feels like there is always a million things to do. Workload might…
Spirited Schools
When you walk into a school, any school, you get a feel for it very quickly. There’s an ambience, an atmosphere and a sense of ‘something’ about it. A school…
Double-Loop Learning
Do you prefer to do things right or do the right things?
Stress- Don’t Pass It On
How effective are your senior managers?
Snow Chance
Why do schools close when it snows?
Appreciative Inquiry
Should schools adopt an ‘Appreciative Inquiry’ model of thinking?