Middle Leadership Course
Reading a short article such as James Spillane
Session and there has to be an action to be followed up on before the next session
Christine Forde for first session and get some ideas for follow up in the next sessions.
Second session has pricipals working together, DPS, AP1s and AP2s working toghether in their groups
Session 3. Princpal, DP and APs all from differnt schools in working groups planning a fictitious scenario to put in place
Session 4: Reflection in our own school groups on our leadership practice, our leadership culture and develpoing this.
Activities:
Design Role Descriptions - AP2s for AP1s, APs for DPs, DPs for Principals, Principals for Teams. Explore each others work.
Input from Finbarr Hurley
Put this through the CSL endorsement process
Part of Eerasmus+ application
Inputs on Workforce Planning
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Inputs on Project Management
Reflective Learning
Time Management
How can we develop our teachers and middle leaders?
Consider a session on LAOS and using the CSL refection tool on this re the Statements for Highly Effective Schools
Exploring Culture - Conor McCarthy from Kaizen
Coaching and Team Coaching and building a coaching culture in the school
Planning for leadership activities for the next term
Running Meetings
Monitoring SSE and building leadership capacity
Exploring LAOS
Language of leadership
End of year review
working in teams
prioritise and delegate
How have you approached distributed leadership in your school?
Performance Review
Strategic Planning
Reports to BOM
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• Define strategic objectives
• Align objectives with school targets (SSE/mission statement/digital strategy)
• Set realistic targets
• Agree expectations
• Identify barriers & critical success factors
• Review and deal with non-performance
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Giving realistic, honest feedback is one of the key skills of an effective manager. It is also the area many managers avoid, because they lack the skills and are afraid of damaging relationships. This course will show you how to give effective feedback and deal with poor or non-performance.
• Prepare for a feedback session
• Focus on issues, not attitude
• Clarify your own objectives
• Open the meeting
• Raise the difficult issues
• Deal with defensiveness
• Deal with anger and emotion
• Bring about a good outcome & focus on future
Team Building
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Good teams do not build themselves. You have to lead – you need to put in place a process and a structure to form and develop the team, to maintain team motivation, and to ensure team delivery.
• Recognise the stages of a team
• Set clear team goals & objectives
• Identify roles and responsibilities (explore role of post holders)
• Create effective team communication
• Understand team dynamics
• Create a sense of unity and purpose
• Manage disharmony
• Recognise success and achievement
Leadership
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• Leadership vs Management
• Distributed leadership
• Leadership styles
• Attributes of a strong leader
• Motivation
Identifying talents and harnessing and developing leadership
Link with Third Level
Problem of getting entire leadership team to attend
TL21 Model works
Distributed Leadership
Conflict Management
Build Team
Conducting reviews
Tasks and Responsibilities
Industry input and comparisons
Videos and interviews re good practice
Link with IPPN
Link with NAPD
Possible conflict with Forbairt and Team Coaching
Lecturers
Reflection Approach
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Areas
Relationship Management with colleagues, parents and management
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Conflict Management re difficult teachers, parents and management
Expectations of the role from teachers/management
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Tasks and responsibities
Uncomfortable with leadership - and how to lead and what their potential is. Effective distributed leadership ..............
Developing a shared understanding of your role, your potential
Respobsibility for whole school issues and being a role model for staff and taking respobsibility.
Reading and interpreting the new Circular. From shelf to practice.
Getting business to whow how they do reviews and
Working as a team
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Interrogate the circular and also LAOS
Business in the community to assist with reviews and exit conversations etc
Research piece and evaluation of the course
Developing Teams
Read
Read. Reflect on it using CNQ, Connections, Whats New and Questions you have
Reflect
Follow Up Action. Ask schools to present at forthcoming session on what has worked well
Read
Take
Need to see distributed leadership in practice in between the sessions.
Whats working well? Even better if??????