Steps into Early
Leadership
DAY 1
Leading at all Levels
Introductions……
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Steps into Early Leadership
• Underpinned by National Standards for
School Leadership
• Designed to facilitate adult learning
• Promotes individual and organisational
learning
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Online support
• Study support materials will be available
online
• Relevant web links will be identified
• Web links to audio/visual/text resources
will be identified
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Reflective Journal – the purpose
• To increase your knowledge, understanding
and of your personal skills.
• To become aware of your preferred
leadership style.
• To systematically analysis your practice
• To reflect on the ‘What’, what are you
learning and how you are applying it back in
school the ‘So What’ and ‘Now What’
questions.
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How We’ll Do It.
Introduce ideas/tools/thoughts…..
Discussions
Practical Exercises
Reflecting on your learning
Novak presented a great view of learning.. We
may need to unlearn some stuff..we may need
to relearn some stuff..uncover some stuff and
discover some stuff
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But First, Answer
These
Why did you apply
for a place on this
programme?
What motivated
you?
What specifically
do you want?
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Activity 1
• What are your expectations of:
– Yourself
– The facilitators
– The group
– The programme
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The Learning Curve
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Unconscious
competence
Learning
‘I know that I am good.
I don’t think about it
any more’
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‘I know that I
am good, and I
understand why’
Unconscious
incompetence
x
‘I don’t know
that I don’t
know’
x
Conscious
competence
Conscious
incompetence
‘I know that I don’t know’
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Developing great Leadership
What is your leadership context?
Identify two of your major strengths as a leader?
What are the two areas of leadership that you would like to
focus on during this programme to increase you
effectiveness? (using the data from your self analysis)
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Reflecting on your Learning Styles..
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Core purpose for school leaders
“To provide professional leadership and
management to secure high quality
teaching, effective use of resources and
improved standards of learning and
achievement for all pupils”
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Your Ideal Middle Manager
• In small groups outline the key skills and
attributes of a successful middle leader?
Encourage the groups to use their creative skills they can represent the
skills in a drawing….
• Working in these groups discuss your
findings.
• How would you rate your self in relation to
this list of skills/attritubutes?
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Attributes
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Personal impact and presence
Adaptability to changing circumstances and new ideas
Energy, vigour and perseverance
Self-confidence
Enthusiasm
Intellectual ability
Reliability and integrity
Commitment
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Key Concepts of Leadership
As well as personal qualities like humour and energy,
many leadership characteristics centre around the key
concepts of:
Vision (your preferred future)
Values (your principles)
Moral purpose (‘acting with the intention of making a
positive difference.’ Fullan 2002)
Professional learning
Influencing/involving others
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Definition Of Management
Management is the efficient, effective
and economic use of resources to
achieve results with and through the
efforts of other people.
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Building the Culture
The 70:30 Rule
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The 70/30 rule
• We have the capacity to learn from mistakes or failure as well as learning
from success and what is working
• The 70/30 rule encourages us to challenge the percentage of time we
spend learning from failure
• We will notice a significant difference in ourselves and others if we spend
70% of our time learning from the detail of what has worked
• There is increasing evidence which shows that we learn, develop and
grow MOST effectively by noticing and naming what is working
• We are naturally programmed to remember our mistakes which means
that our successes are often invisible to us
• We need to develop the ability to learn from our successes and hone in
on the detail of what has worked
• By understanding the detail of what has worked we can create a savings
account of data to draw from and apply in contexts where things have
gone wrong
• The 70/30 rule helps us to hold the assumption that ‘in every situation we
find what is working and learn from it’*
Questions of Difference
*Ref: 7 Assumptions of Partnering, Cash in on Conflict, 2006
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70/30 as a life choice!
• The 70/30 Rule is a quick way to notice
and name what is working well and pay
attention to the 70% to help the 30%.
• We are physiologically programmed to
notice what is not working so well because
we do not need to notice what is working
well because it is working well….
• Not just positive thinking!!!!
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Three Blessings – What Went Well and Why?
Seligman undertook research with 500 participants
asking them to record three things that went well and
why, every day for 15 days? In this study 92% of people
reported increased happiness over the 15 day period.
(2005)
Martin E.P. Seligman, Ph.D., works on positive
psychology, learned helplessness, depression, and on
optimism and pessimism. He is currently Zellerbach
Family Professor of Psychology and Director of the
Positive Psychology Center at the University of
Pennsylvania. He is well known in academic and clinical
circles and is a best-selling author
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Gratitude Attitude
• Psychologists Robert Emmons and Michael McCullough
(2003) studied the impact of asking people to write about
gratitude. Three groups were asked to spend a few
moments each week writing. One group was asked to
write about the things they were grateful for, another
group was asked to write about things that annoyed
them and the final group was required to write
about events that had happened that week. The
gratitude group ended up happier, healthier, more
optimistic and even exercised more than the other two
groups. Everyone has something to be happy about but
often we just stop noticing what that is.
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Working with the 70/30 rule
Detail actions that I am going to take away.
(Stop/Keep/Start)
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Practical application of the 70/30
rule- examples of what you can
influence…
1. With your colleagues
2. With your team (Meetings)
3. With your support staff
4. With your stakeholder –parents etc
5. With the young people
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Connecting It All Up
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Action Planning
• What two key things will you pay more attention to
in your role as a result of our time together?
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• What aspects of the learning will you be conscious
of and apply in your workplace in the next two
months?
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& Exactly What Are You Going To Do?
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