Learning what it takes to become your own leader

Day 1: Find your Cause
Day 2: Create your Vision
Day 3: Find out what you're starting with
Day 4: Looking, Listening, Learning
Day 5: "Just doing it"... with your team

Additional BONUS online support on the themes of:

• Workflow and Getting Things Done
• Understanding Yourself: the voices in your head and strengths-finding: your Growth Edge
• How to Initiate Connection
• Acting Collaboratively

Learn what it takes to put your leadership into action with a team

Day 6: Make your Ideas Better - a Pre Mortem
Day 7: Define Objectives and Key Results
Day 8: Recruit for an Idea
Day 9: Act Agile
Day 10: Build Momentum

Additional BONUS material on: 

• Empathetic Leading
• Life-long learning and leading
• Emancipatory Leadership

Learn what it takes to influence the system and grow your ideas to some scale

Day 11: Act Collaboratively: how to work together and enjoy it
Day 12: Generate Trust
Day 13: Build Relationships
Day 14: Negotiation and Hard Conversations
Day 15: When the going gets tough...
Final Conversation:
Day 16: Reach your Growth Edge

I don’t have the time to set aside an hour a day to think about this.

If you don’t feel you have the time, then you and your team definitely need to take out this time. The long-term sustainability in schools needs strong leadership from the middle.

We've built this in three sprints, intensive five-day bursts with plenty of time to put ideas into action on the ground in between.

As part of this course, we’ll help you work out how to clear the decks and carve out the creative “white space” with your team that you need to do good work.

We'll also help senior leaders in the school connect with what their middle leadership are doing. 

I am struggling to cope with today, let alone any kind of big thinking.

We live by our values, which mean we will inspire, but we'll be pragmatic about it, too. We'll equip you with everything you need, from the very start, so that you can manage your time better, cope with the things being lobbed in your direction, and come out thinking fresh on the other side. 

We normally do our professional learning in one go at the start of the year. Can this work online?

Let’s be honest: leadership and training retreats of a weekend or less never delivered a full strategy, and certainly didn’t get it working quickly, on the ground. By working online, in an intensive burst, you’ll see a greater impact than if you were to go it alone after just a day or two of inservice training.

In each intensive part, you choose the areas you're going to develop in practice right at that moment. You'll become an expert in some areas - your cohort teammates will become experts in others. 

Yes! You could take this course on your own, and feed back into your team. But it's more efficient, and more powerful, for teams to attend together.

If you're a senior leader responsible for the development of middle leadership, we can create a course with you, bringing your school's mission, values, vision and strategy into the course. And we can do it at the perfect time for your team.