Description: Are current leadership roles and relationships appropriate in a rapidly changing world? Do we need to rethink key assumptions about leaders and leadership? Are you confident about the appropriateness and effectiveness of your chosen leadership styles and behaviours? These are questions facing leaders today
Brief description: Libby Nicholas is Chief Executive of the Reach4 Academy Trust. She was previously Regional Director - South and West for the Academies Enterprise Trust. She has wide experience of headship and senior leadership in the independent and maintained sectors and across the full age range of schools.
Review Quotes:
aWhilst finding consensus on what, exactly, it is that makes one school abetter' than another is next to impossible, one thing upon which almost everyone agrees is that truly great schools must have excellent leaders. What, then, are the qualities of effective leadership to which all those in a position of responsibility should be aspiring? Are they innate, or can they perhaps be learnt and nurtured? In this rich and readable resource, the authors examine what aleadership' really is, tackling some of the myths that have grown around it over time, and contextualising it within the current educational and wider social landscape. Throughout, they encourage leaders at all levels to challenge assumptions, to question, analyse and reflect on their own practice and what they observe around them - and to take charge of their professional and personal development for the benefit of themselves and the establishments are charged with steering through uncertain and unstable times. It's inspiring, empowering stuff.
Teach Secondary Magazine, issue 5.5, 2016