Leadership
Developing a shared school culture
Many IB schools recruit staff from different cultural and/or national groups. This is true both for schools which work with students within particular national boundaries and also for international schools...
Leadership
Culture and context
“Culture is like the wind. It is invisible, yet its effect can be seen and felt. When it is blowing in your direction, it makes for smooth sailing. When it is blowing against you, everything is more difficult.”...
Leadership
Leading Meetings Free
Effective and time-efficient meetings should produce work that is important to the school, promote collaborative working practices and create efficacy. Well-run meetings are one way of influencing the...
Leadership
Difficult but crucial conversations Free
The best educational leaders do not shy away from holding difficult and crucial conversations. Whether you are a Head of Department, a Coordinator, Deputy Principal or Head of School there will be multiple...
Leadership
How to motivate colleagues - Top Tips Free
This page presents a reflective Top Tip checklist about how you can motivate people. It could be a useful reflective activity to use at the beginning or end of a school year, or as you approach a major...
Leadership
Leaders motivate people Free
In a survey of 1,000 current and emerging leaders the most important quality valued in a leader was their ability to motivate others. As a school leader it is important to know how to motivate people...
Leadership
Challenging Under Performance Free
What's the best way of challenging under performance? The best educational leaders create an environment within the school that puts achievement at the heart of all that the school does. They relentlessly...
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How do you lead a team? Free
As each new team forms (at the beginning of academic years or the beginning of a new project) it is worth considering what 'theory' your school has about how to effectively lead teams. Leading a team...
Leadership
How do you grow and develop a team? Free
Our professional inquiry into theoretical models of team formation and development will allow us to identify the style of leadership that will support growth at each stage of the team’s development. Central...
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Team is everything Free
Frank LaFasto and Carl Larson have written extensively about working in teams. In their book, When Teams Work Best, they survey 15,000 team members about what effective teamwork looks like. This reading,...