ABOUT THIS COURSE
This practical course is designed for those with experience of managing teams, who are looking to excel in senior leadership positions within a school. Using scenarios, mapped against academic theories and models, we’ll explore a number of different themes and discuss new ways to ensure we inspire those we lead.
The course will focus on the following key areas for senior leaders:
- Exploring the behaviours of an outstanding and inspirational senior leader
- Stepping up – knowing when to lead people and when to manage them
- Learning to flex your leadership style to get the best out of your team across a wide variety of situations
- Balancing your responsibilities and your time to support your team, the individuals in it and ensuring you get the job done
- Exploring how to manage both the immediate future, and have a strategy to grow moving forward
- Change management – understanding the emotions of change and effectively leading people to work with you around change
- Setting, Selling and Reinforcing exciting visions
- Managing challenging conversations both in times of change or as part of your review
- Using feedback effectively
BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
- Hone skills in management and leadership and refine an approach that is authentic to you
- Take away ideas to support you making changes that are backed by your team
- Develop skills in managing difficult conversations
- Take the time to think about inspiring visions to drive your team forward, and the plan involved
- Find out ways to pre-empt difficult conversations and turn them into positive, opportunities to learn
- Share and learn from others in a similar position to you
COURSE DATES | London | Monday 29 June 2020 In-school |
WHO SHOULD ATTEND? |
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COURSE CODE | 7910 |
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10.00 – 11:30am: Exploring the Behaviours of outstanding and inspirational senior leaders
- Stepping up; knowing when to lead people and when to manage
- The behaviours of leaders across different sectors that make them successful- mapping them into a school context
- Creating a definition of leadership that is authentic to you
- Situational Leadership – adapting your style
- When and where is each style truly effective, and when do they work less well.
- Creating a tool kit of styles to ensure the best outcomes
11:30 – 11.45 | Break
11:45 – 12:45 | Balancing a Leader’s Responsibilities – Current vs Future and Internal vs External
- Balancing the task, your team and the individuals who make it up and the effect of leaving one of these areas impoverished.
- Delegating tasks to give you time to ‘step up’.
- Understanding and finding time to dedicate to the longer term future, and outside your immediate vision
- Stepping up to the responsibilities of a leader and ensuring you balance your time to effectively tackle today’s task and your future strategy
12.45 – 13.45pm: Lunch
13:45 – 14:30 | The Emotions of Change and Leading through Change
- Understanding the emotions people go through around change
- Recognising the feelings that sit behind the ‘visible behaviours’
- Flexing your leadership style to best support people in times of change
14:30 – 15:00 | Making Goals Truly Powerful and Engaging
- Moving from targets to goals – some fundamentals about goal setting
- Layering your goals to inspire your team and allowing you to celebrate success
- Setting inspirational visions as a team – how to have creative, innovative conversations.
- Finding innovative ways to communicate your inspirational visions
15:00 – 15:15 | Afternoon break
15:30 – 16:30: | Advanced Communication Skills
- The importance of understanding perspective and perception when having challenging conversations
- Delivering challenging feedback in a constructive way
- Using coaching skills to help people grow
- Honing your listening skills – recognising blocks to creating rapport
16:30 | Depart
Tim Hudson
Tim Hudson is a Leadership & Development expert with particular interest in the education sector. Backed by a degree in Management, he works with a wide variety of people, from aspiring student-leaders to Senior Managers. In the past two years he has run in-house programmes developing leadership in teachers and pupils in HMC schools, including a pioneering year-long leadership course accredited by the ILM. Tim has also worked with talented sports people and is currently supporting a project with a leading charity to promote and reward school pupil’s engagement in the local community. He is passionate about helping people to thrive when stepping up to leadership positions.