If anyone who signed up to the workload poster reads this post I can imagine them thinking “there is no pleasing some people”. There is a growing correlation between my age and increased level of grumpiness. The poster just made me cross. Continue reading
Is it possible to have a work life balance when leading a school or for that matter when teaching in one? #SLTchat produces a frenetic thirty minutes of tweets, re-tweets, likes and comments. Maybe the people who give up a Sunday evening to be part of it are not best placed to comment; it’s a lovely irony. Continue reading
In The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge (1990) states “… to understand the most challenging managerial issues requires seeing the whole system that generates the issue.” Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants rather a mess. It’s about determining the correct system boundaries to allow you to look at all the interactions that are important to the issue at hand. Continue reading