Keys to Leadership
Treat staff as a whole (all levels treated same).
- For example always send the youngest member of the admin team down to meet and greet people being interviewed
- Structure not hierarchy Clear structures needed but not power game
- Act without fear or favour
View the school community as a family
- Once you are an academy student you are always an academy student (even the excluded)
- Would this school be good enough for my children
- Remember who are the adults, don’t mask problems with issues with adults e.g. Straight talking re poor lessons ‘you deserve to know this’
Act with Integrity
- Never rely on status to give moral authority
- Never mix the personal with the professional
- Believe in and practice servant leadership
- Always refer to our not my
- Speak with authenticity and. Be known for integrity
- Keep a sense of humour
- Keep a sense of perspective family comes
- Remember the role does not create infallibility
- Be known as having courage
- Give the plaudits and take the blame
- Be resilient, never give up
- Don’t compromise on your vision but be flexible in the journey
