Leadership

Leadership: Being, Knowing, Doing

“I arrived to headship with a keen eye for a new idea, a fistful of ready-made solutions and the capacity to work long hours.  These allied to Ofsted and Diocesan Section 48 inspections, in my first half year, helped create a one hundred and five page development plan.  It led to a manic style of leadership.  What the school required was a less frenetic leader and a more phronetic one.” Leadership: Being, Knowing, Doing will be my third book. If I am honest I never thought I would publish one never mind three.

Leading with Purpose

The worldwide disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic is our generation’s Great Pause. We are in a liminal space – a disorientating time between the world that has been and the world that may be. These are times that are so profoundly discontinuous that we reconsider the purpose of our lives: to what extent has my life been well lived? We are likely to re-enter the world changed.

5 School Wishes for Christmas

Next Sunday is the start of Advent, a time of preparation for Christmas.  For many this has been the longest year of their lives; paradoxically where did the year go?  Too many school leaders and staff are on their knees as they try to manage the on-going impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

With the season of goodwill starting in just over a month, here are five ideas that Messrs Williamson & Gibb could implement to prepare for Christmas and make up for their less than stellar performances so far this year.