Leadership: How can I extend and develop my skills? Gill Clark, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Gill Clark, Advisory Headteacher

Leadership: How can I extend and develop my skills?

Introduction & aims of the session

• To help you evaluate your leadership experiences and strengths
• To provide some skills/techniques to support your leadership

journey

• Reflection time on your leadership strengths and areas for

development

Session Outline

Part 1 A review of leadership styles Part 2 Characteristics and qualities that help you build the values that underpin strategic leadership Part 3 ‘Least reliability and relevance to greatest reliability’ an evidence model to help you understand the effectiveness of your team/organisation or school better Part 4 The empathetic model of conflict resolution

Part 1 A review of leadership styles

• Work with a partner and describe why you wanted to be a

school leader?

• What was your vision for yourself?
• Discuss your experiences of leadership so far? Have you been

able to match your vision?

• What have been your successes and what have been your

challenges?

Rating your leadership styles

• Most frequently used
• Frequently used
• Sometimes used
• Occasionally used
• Never used
• Discuss the outcomes with a colleague. Consider why

you don’t use or rarely use a style/styles?

• Share your results

Impact of styles

Consider the impact of these styles:

• On strategic vision
• Children’s outcomes
• Others including different groups: staff, parents and governors

Reflect on whether you need to use a wider range of styles in your present role or would you consider some styles are for a future role? Discuss reflections

Scenario Task

Part 2 Characteristics and qualities that help you build the values that underpin strategic leadership

Activity

• What values do you think are important to the role of the school

leader? Discuss and make a list with a colleague.

• Where and how have you made it clear that your work is based
• n values?
• Consider how these values may support you in a challenging

situation with a staff member or a parent?

A review of qualities and characteristics

High expectations of all Lifelong learning Honesty Independent learners Celebrating ethnic and cultural diversity Self-esteem Imagination Consistency Self control Challenge Financial enterprise Leadership at all levels Enjoyment Mutual respect Partnerships with parents Positive reinforcement Integrity Community involvement Added value Truth Security (physical/emotional) Participation Justice Openness Equality of

• pportunity

Compassion Empowerment at every level Fair treatment for all Responsibility Pride in achievement Team working Accountability Positive reinforcement

Qualities and Characteristics

Activity

• Discuss with a colleague what are your 5 core

qualities/characteristics and explain why?

• Why is it important to understand this for yourself and for others?

Part 3 ‘Least reliability and relevance to greatest reliability’ an evidence model to help you understand the effectiveness

• f your team/organisation or school even better.
• How do we find out about the effectiveness of our team, school
• r organisation?
• List the ways?
• How reliable are these methods?

The ‘least reliability and relevance to the greatest reliability and relevance model’

Least reliability and relevance

• 1. Listen to intentions
• 2. Consider planned innovations
• 3. Seek perceptions of other people’s roles
• 4. Examine policy documents
• 5. Examine plans of work for the near future
• 6. Evaluate evidence of what has happened
• 7. Interview people about their roles
• 8. Analyse performance indicators
• 9. Discuss what is happening

10.Examine output, such as pupils’ work

• 11. Observe it happening

Greatest reliability and relevance

• Consider how this will give you greater reliability in knowing your
• rganisation
• How would you use this approach in your present role to support

your organisation’s effectiveness?

• With colleagues discuss your approach to dealing with

conflict with a colleague

• Share approaches

Part 4 The empathetic model of conflict resolution

The empathetic model for conflict resolution

• Discussion activity: The model and it’s use