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The high performance school leadership team
| Date | 7 October 2010 |
|---|---|
| Duration | 1 Day |
| Price | GBP 399 + VAT
Membership Price: 199.5 + VAT |
| Location | London |
| Venue | Venue not yet confirmed |
| Registration | 9.00-9.30 |
| Close of Seminar | 5.00 |
| Our code | 35476 |
| Also held on |
2 November 2010, Coventry 9 March 2011, London 16 March 2011, Manchester |
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- Why you should attend this seminar
- Who should attend?
- Key benefits
- Programme
- Speakers
- Comments from previous delegates...
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- Special delegate discount
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Why you should attend this seminar
Headship is a risky and often lonely business. Final accountability lies with the head and this can place an unworkable burden on one person. The huge workload means that leadership needs to be shared as widely as possible across the school, going beyond the senior leadership team to utilise the interests and talents of the whole staff team. Where the head fulfils additional external roles such as acting as a SIP or mentor, there is even more pressure. Heads who understand how to maximise both the people and resources within their schools achieve more and are under less stress. Working together with a ‘whole school’ approach is the key to success. Discover what this means on this seminar which focuses on setting up and maintaining a high performance leadership culture in which distributed leadership, succession planning and talent management are key ingredients. Using simple but effective solutions, this seminar will help schools establish a culture where everyone within the leadership team and elsewhere in school understands how their role adds value and contributes to overall success. Whilst retaining intellectual rigour, this unique seminar removes the theory and rhetoric, giving you practical solutions of immediate use on return to your school.
Who should attend?
- Head teachers wishing to develop their leadership teams
- Head teachers designate wishing to be proactive in planning their approach to their new schools
- Deputy and assistant head teachers
- Entire senior leadership teams
- Forward thinking chairs of governing bodies
Key benefits
Attending this seminar will help you:
- Understand more fully the nature of a high performance leadership culture and the barriers to it.
- Identify the key roles within a high performance leadership team
- Explore how to develop a ‘whole school’ culture
- Diagnose and evaluate the current leadership culture
- Get beneath the data and introduce effective measurement of leadership
- Introduce a variety of tools and techniques for establishing a high performance leadership culture which can be immediately used on the return to school.
Programme
1 Establishing the baseline
- The causal links between leadership and successful schools
- Exploring why ‘top teams’ often under perform
- Understanding the factors that can lead to success or failure
- What do we know about successful teams inside and outside of education
- Getting the language right – strategic or tactical
- Removing the jargon
2 Creating a high performance leadership team
- Setting the criteria and defining the vision
- Developing a high performance culture
- Understanding who should be involved
- Roles and responsibilities
- Who communicates and how?
- Introducing ‘Whole school’ thinking
- Building capacity
3 Practical tools and techniques to put strategy into action
- Measuring performance and potential
- Policy or culture?
- Stakeholder mapping
- Harnessing neutrality
- Challenging conversations that raise performance
4 Shaping the future in your school
- Making sense of it all
- Finding a starting point
- Identifying the next steps and milestones
- Action planning for success
- Taking account of accountability
- Evaluation and close
The SES Partners is a partnership of highly regarded education consultants specialising in providing school leaders at all levels with solutions of immediate practical use in school. With in-depth knowledge and experience of working with schools and other organisations we understand how to get the best out of people. SES combines extensive experience in education and training with highly developed skills in consultancy, human resource management, school inspection and performance analysis to help schools innovate to become and remain high performing organisations. We have a proven track record of providing training, consultancy, and advice on a wide range of leadership issues that leave clients with practical things to do immediately that will help them improve effectiveness. We are all actively involved in education and training at both a strategic and hands-on level. Our team includes people who are active school governors, involved in OFSTED inspection work, school improvement partners and advisers, and experienced facilitators and trainers, with many years of working with schools and commercial organisations.
Speakers
John Carter has extensive experience of working with schools and their governing bodies. A former headteacher and Ofsted inspector, John has held a variety of LA posts including Senior Primary Inspector and Senior Adviser for School Improvement. His experience in these posts and as a remodelling consultant and has included training and support for teachers, middle leaders, head teachers and governors on all aspects of school improvement. He has led various projects for National Academy of Gifted and Talented Youth and is also a facilitator and researcher for the National College of School Leadership and a School Improvement Partner. Currently he works as an independent education consultant specialising in leadership, school improvement and gifted and talented.
Sandra Evans is a highly regarded leadership and change consultant who specialises in designing and delivering programmes in career development, change management and talent development, particularly focusing on the creation of high performance cultures and on the identification, attraction and retention of talented individuals. Having spent over 20 years in senior roles with Barclays Bank, both corporate and retail, she moved into consultancy in 2002 and is now in demand in both the public and private sectors. In education, she is currently developing a talent strategy for a local authority, working on a succession planning programme to attract more people into headship and provides one to one coaching for head teachers. As an active and forward looking Chair of Governors she is a member of Bedfordshire Governors Support Group and is also involved in continuing professional development of governors.
Comments from previous delegates...
q " Very good course – good materials. Excellent pace. Really enjoyed the academic rigour. Thank you." Gillian Powe, Head Teacher, Bishop Road Primary School
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