Leading Teams
Leading and managing staff
- Ability to create a positive and open working climate and a desire to involve all in decision-making
- Team-building and how to train and develop other adults
- Lesson observation skills and giving feedback - developing and monitoring the work of others
- Solution-focussed coaching to improve performance
- Mentoring and buddying
- Performance review and holding people to account
- Managing underperformance/supporting weak staff
- Difficult interactions and resolving conflicts
Efficient and effective management of staff and resources
- Timetabling and curriculum design
- Budget planning and management
- Data management and ICT toolkits
- Smart working - managing time and running meetings
- Making best use of administrative staff/systems & processes
- Effective deployment of classroom assistants and learning mentors
- Intelligent accountability and report writing
- Managing time, stress and workload
- Making better presentations
- Project Management
Key leadership skills and attributes
Taking up authority in role e.g.,
- Understanding leadership role and different leadership styles
- Taking up the authority role and the ‘player/manager' model
- Understanding team dynamics and how people are different
- Understanding motivation - self and other
- Motivating and influencing others and managing change
- Delegation and talent management
- Emotional and political intelligence - skills of persuasion, negotiation and influence
- Coaching skills to enhance performance
- Managing upwards and vertical relationships
- Theoretical concepts of leadership, including distributed leadership and using and managing emotions as a leader
- Key concepts central to understanding under the surface dynamics of leadership and the school environment, such as containment and projection.
- Accelerating wisdom, maturity and gravitas
- Empathy, humility, resilience
- Self awareness and objectivity
- Curiosity and conceptual thinking
Disclaimer: Please note that the detailed curriculum outline has been included to give you a better sense for what the Teaching Leaders programme will comprise. However, it may be that we are unable to include every element of the ideal curriculum, or that we need to alter the curriculum slightly, and we reserve the right to do so.