14th June 2005 at Wigan PDC, Hindley

 

The Effective Senior Leadership Team

Improving Team Work A Cross Phase Course

 

£169 + vat 

 

"The three national training programmes for headteachers are intended for individual leaders

rather than leadership groups. However, inspection, headteachers’ comments and good

practice in some LEAs, all indicate the need for leadership and management training to

focus on leadership teams as well as on individual headteachers."    OfSTED (2002)

 

 

School Leadership Teams (SLTs) play a vital role in ensuring the smooth functioning of the school on a day-to-day basis.  Some SLTs however are teams in name only and do not, for a variety of reasons, achieve their full potential as a locus for the carrying through of the school's medium to long term strategy.  This is a feature common to top management teams in the business sector.  However, there is as yet little to guide those in education seeking to understand how under - or average performance by the SLT can be turned into high performance with pupils, students, teachers and associate staff reaping the benefits that follow.  This event sets out to fill this gap.

               

Who will benefit?

·         Headteachers - wishing to improve the performance of their own SLTs

·         Current members of SLTs - concerned to improve their own effectiveness and contribution

·         Headteachers elect - wishing to be proactive in planning their approach to their new schools

·         Groups of senior staff - from SLTs in the same school

 

What will be the outcome of the event?

On completion you should be able to:

 

·         Appreciate more fully the nature of SLT high performance and the barriers to it

·         Identify the elements of process and composition that matter

·         Use strategic analysis for performance improvement

·         Understand organisational culture and how to influence it

·         Relate leadership style to school strategy and culture

·         Solve practical problems about SLT development

 

Outline of the Day

 

 

Session One:                 

What 'top teams' should do and why they don't                                                    

·         Introduction, purposes; structure and style of the day

·         What we know about issues and problems in education and business

·         Looking at practical ways forward:

·         Analysing the process and role mix of the Senior Leadership Team

·         Improving the process of meetings and working together

·         Team role inventories and their uses

 

 

Session Two:                                                                               

The strategic lens and ways of acquiring it                                                                                                  

·         Scanning the environment and its importance

·         Different approaches and possibilities

·         Arriving at a common perception

·         The role of strategic intent and how to link these with individual responsibilities of members of the SLT

 

 

Session Three:                                                                              

The cultural lens and how to use it                                                                                             

·         Analysing the culture and capacity for improvement

·         Identifying cultural change and how leadership styles and approaches can influence it

·         Primary and secondary case studies

 

 

Session Four:                                                                                    

Defining and Planning For High Performance                                                                                                                     

·         What do high performance senior leadership teams look like?

·         Planning to achieve a high performance SLT

·         Personal action planning related to this course

 

 

TO BOOK YOUR PLACE AT THIS EVENT PLEASE CALL: 01942 767 102