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How successful head teachers thrive & survive. Professor Tim Brighouse. Vision. Skills. Incentives. Resources. Action Plan. =. CHANGE. Skills. Incentives. Resources. Action Plan. =. CONFUSION. Vision. Incentives. Resources. Action Plan. =. ANXIETY. Vision. Skills.
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How successful head teachers thrive & survive Professor Tim Brighouse
Vision Skills Incentives Resources Action Plan = CHANGE Skills Incentives Resources Action Plan = CONFUSION Vision Incentives Resources Action Plan = ANXIETY Vision Skills Resources Action Plan = RESISTANCE Vision Skills Incentives Action Plan = FRUSTRATION Vision Skills Incentives Resources = TREADMILL Complex change
9 levels of delegation • Look into this problem. Give me all the facts. I will decide what to do. • Let me know the options available with the pros and cons of each. I will decide what to select. • Let me know the criteria for your recommendation, which alternatives you have identified and which one appears best to you with any risk identified. I will make the decision. • Recommend a course of action for my approval. • Let me know what you intend to do. Delay action until I approve. • Let me know what you intend to do. Do it unless I say not to. • Take action. Let me know what you did. Let me know how it turns out. • Take action. Communicate with me only if action is unsuccessful. • Take action. No further communication with me is necessary.
Values • Success not failure • Multifaceted not general • Inclusive not exclusive • Ipsative not normative • Life long not once and for all
4 periods of headship • Initiation • Development • Stall • Decline
5 uses of time • ‘They sit on the wall not the fence’ • ‘They are ‘skalds’ not ‘scolds’ • ‘They teach, learn and assess for most of their time’ • ‘They spend their evenings weekends and holidays….working….socialising….and being a member of a family’ • ‘They spend two hours a week in acts of unexpected kindness’
6 tasks of headship • Create energy • Build capacity • Meet and minimise crisis • Secure and enhance the environment • Seek and chart improvement • Extend the vision of what’s possible
7 ways to avoid a breakdown • Manage your diary • Find allies • Have a 7-10 year service! • Stop doing one of your regular tasks for a term to allow someone else to do them • Remember to be the ‘Jack’ or ‘Jill’ of all trades and master of none • Become an expert ‘driller’ and a lepidopterist • Collect hyacinths