Head of Year: getting the best from your team

This programme will enable you to:

• focus your time and leadership skills for maximum impact on pupil outcomes
• develop an understanding of how to empower your tutor team
• understand how to manage relationships within your school: upwards, downwards and sideways to achieve your aims
• develop skills to manage powerful dialogues that achieve the outcomes you want.

Learning model

Participants engage in four 2.5hr face-to-face sessions, interspersed with focused tasks carried out in their own schools. Sessions combine bursts of theory with practical activity.

Session details

Session one: Teamwork and leadership

• What does research tell us about leading effective teams?
• What does research tell us about models of leadership that will make a difference to you in your role?

Session two: Active listening and managing challenging conversations

• The power of active listening and the role of trust
• Managing challenging conversations to get the outcomes you want

Session three: Working strategically, using data

• Data for dialogue: a problem solving tool
• Tools to enable you to work strategically: visioning, action planning and tracking impact

Session four: Managing yourself, coaching others

• Getting the best from yourself: time management and resilience
• Developing coaching skills to enable you to get the best from your tutor team

Dates

Fee

£380 per person.

“ Practical strategies to take and use within my role to help facilitate improvement

“Great resources and research, shared in an actionable way. Really good space to take a moment and reflect on my practice and then actively improve it

Image: Head of year. Photo: © Kirsten Holst