Leadership: How can I extend and develop my skills?

1. Gill Clark, Advisory Headteacher Leadership: How can I extend and develop my skills?

2. 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

3. Session Outline Part 1 A review of leadership styles Part 2 Characteristics and qualities that help you build the values that underpin strategic leadership Part3 ‘Least reliability and relevance to greatest reliability’ an evidence model to help you understand the effectiveness of your team/organisation or school better Part4 The empathetic model of conflict resolution

4. Part 1A 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?

5. 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

6. Impact of styles Consider the impact of these styles: • On strategic vision • Children’s outcomes • Others including different groups: staff, parents and governors

7. 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

8. Scenario Task

9. Part 2Characteristics 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 on values? • Consider how these values may support you in a challenging situation with a staff member or a parent?

11. 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?

12. Part 3‘Least reliability and relevance to greatest reliability’ an evidence model to help you understand the effectiveness of your team/organisation or school even better. • How do we find out about the effectiveness of our team, school or organisation? • List the ways? • How reliable are these methods?

13. 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 • Discuss what is happening • Examine output, such as pupils’ work 11. Observe it happening

14. Greatest reliability and relevance • Consider how this will give you greater reliability in knowing your organisation • How would you use this approach in your present role to support your organisation’s effectiveness?

15. Part 4The empathetic model of conflict resolution • With colleagues discuss your approach to dealing with conflict with a colleague • Share approaches

16. The empathetic model for conflict resolution • Discussion activity: The model and it’s use