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The Education Union

The Education Union. Why should anyone be led by you? Analyse your personality and your strengths. Identify them and believe in them. Leadership. Inspirational leaders share four unexpected qualities: They selectively show their weaknesses.

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The Education Union

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  1. The Education Union

  2. Why should anyone be led by you? Analyse your personality and your strengths. Identify them and believe in them. Leadership

  3. Inspirational leaders share four unexpected qualities: They selectively show their weaknesses. They rely heavily on intuition to gauge the appropriate timing and course of their actions They manage employees with tough empathy They reveal their differences (Robert Goffee and Gareth Jones, Harvard Business Review) Leadership

  4. Management is about coping with complexity…. Leadership, by contrast, is about coping with change John K Potter, What Leaders really do, Harvard) Leadership

  5. ….what unions need to do is to inspire the unorganised with confidence that the world of work can and should be better, that an accelerating pace of change may be unavoidable as markets integrate and competition intensifies but that workers can still influence the process. Unions need to establish themselves as institutions that can help people navigate the shoals of a more challenging world of work (Raising Lazarus, The Future of Organised Labour – David Coates – The Fabian Society) Policy

  6. ATL has to tell members an aspirational story. They do not want endlessly to be in opposition. We have to tell them that they can join in and get on. (Mary Bousted) Policy

  7. Times of change test us. And this is emphatically a time of great change. The structure of developed economies is unrecognisable even from my childhood. Employment has declined rapidly in the heartlands of the movement, in manufacturing, mining, utilities and the public sector. Fading industries are heavily unionised. Emerging industries are not. The fortunes of the trade union movement have tracked this change, rather than bucked it. Membership plummeted from almost half the workforce in 1980, after steady growth from 1950, to a third in 2000. (Tony Blair – speech to Unions 21) Organising & Recruitment

  8. In 1979 the TUC had more than 12 million members. It now has 6.4 million In 1979 union density stood at 49% and collective agreements covered pay and conditions of about 75% of the workforce: The comparable figures now are 28.8% and 35% (and these are largely sustained by the public sector which has 58.8% density; 71.6% coverage than the private sector which has 17.2% density; 20.5% coverage). Organising & Recruitment

  9. The renewed emphasis on union organising in the UK and the USA for example has been extensively discussed….but significant internal restructuring to free up organising resources has to date been observed in only a minority of unions. (Labour Movement Revitalization? A Comparative Perspective. Professor John Kelly, Birkbeck College, London) Organising & Recruitment

  10. The key questions for Labour and the unions to answer are: what constitutes ‘good work’; how can we get more of it in the UK?; and what role do unions play in creating sustainable, high quality jobs? (David Coates, Raising Lazarus) Organising for what? David Coates, Raising Lazarus

  11. Joiners by sector 2005-06 v 2004-05 • Maintained sector  • From 5967 to 7901, a rise of 32% • Independent sector  • From 1305 to 1285, a fall of 1% • FE/HE sector  • From 479 to 657, a rise of 37%

  12. Joiners v LeaversLast four school years

  13. Year on Year MembershipOctober 2002 to October 2006

  14. Student – NQ1 Conversion • STUDENT MEMBERSHIP IS MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR IN STUDENT-NQ1 CONVERSION

  15. Trade unions are one of the last bastions of chauvinism Women trade union leaders ‘play’ this in different ways There is no one right answer but Women will not succeed if they merely copy the worst behaviour of the men – A quality of effective leaders is that they capitalise on what’s unique about themselves. Using these differences to great advantage is the most important leadership qualifications. On Being a Woman

  16. SO, WHAT, AS WOMEN, CAN WE DO DIFFERENTLY? WHAT EXPERIENCES CAN WE BRING TO SUSTAIN AND DEVELOP OUR LEADERSHIP? WHAT QUALITIES DO WE WANT TO DISPLAY AS LEADERS? WHAT EFFECT DO WE WANT TO HAVE ON THOSE WE LEAD? On Being a Woman

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