Being able to influence people is arguably the ultimate leadership behaviour. You can’t be a leader if you don’t influence others; how long you stay a leader may well depend on the methods you use. The use of data in schools can be a bludgeoning experience or an enlightening one. If the purpose of data focuses on accountability it tends to be the former and as it tends towards learning the later. Continue reading
If you work in a school I’m probably safe in saying you are working too hard and doing too many things. Whilst it might appear harsh, I may even suggest that you are probably not doing all these things as well as you could leading to reduced impact. Even worse you possibly haven’t spent enough time thinking, in the first instance, about whether all the things you are doing are likely to have a significant impact or possibly any impact. Continue reading
In conversation with Ros McMullen at the recent Headteachers’ Round Table meeting she casually muttered the immortal line, “People like you and me could be sacked three or four times in a year.” Continue reading