leadership mindset sue egersdorff director early years march 2012
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Leadership Mindset
Sue EgersdorffDirector Early Years
March 2012
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The Big Picture
• Key drivers – autonomy, collaboration, freedom, diversity, self improvement, accountability
• The challenges – building capacity, confidence, trust, climate of austerity
• The goal – balance - autonomy but not isolation - diversity no barrier to
collaboration - accountability not tight
regulation
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• Reducing variability
• Narrowing the gap – increasing life chances
•Enhancing sustainability
Ongoing Leadership Challenges
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What matters most?
AmbitionFocusClarityUrgencyIrreversibility
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Professional continuum
Starting points Continuing professional Leadership System
development development development
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Setting to setting support
• Comes in many forms
• Differentiated and contextual support
• Driving quality improvement – a continuum
• Evidence and research
• Funding and focus
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Co-ordinated action
•Moving away from service silos
•Increasing democratic accountability
•Increasing engagement with parents, carers and families
•Seeing all leaders actively seeking more and new ways to work together – fostering “mutuality”
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Likelihood of Delivery “Deliverology”
Exercising judgement:
• Degree of challenge• Quality of planning, implementation and performance
management• Capacity to drive progress• Stage of delivery
Key to delivery = “Gentle pressure relentlessly applied”
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Working in partnership
• Who are your partners?
• Reciprocity?• Time for trust?• Adaptive and flexible?• New models and
partnerships?
“In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.”
Carlos Slim Helu
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Role of Teaching Schools
As well as offering training and support for their alliance themselves,
Teaching Schools will identify and co-ordinate expertise from their alliance,
using the best leaders and teachers to:
1 play a greater role in training new entrants to the profession 2 lead peer-to-peer learning3 spot and nurture leadership potential4 provide support for other schools5 designate and broker Specialist Leaders of Education (SLEs)6 engage in research and development
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The End Game
Grinding out increments is a noble cause ….. But where progress is slow, it’s even more important for people to understand the strategy.
Michael Barber 2007
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Call to action?
• Infuse, augment traditional offerings with new ideas
• Combine aspects and attributes that work
• Counteract negatives and reaffirm shared values
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Talking reality
Opposed Struggling to cope
Get it! Motoring!
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Adopt a growth mind set
Jim : When did you start?LL: At 2:5 yearsJim: How many hours a day did you
practise?LL: For the first 15years, 8 hours a
dayJim: And now?LL: 3 hours a dayJim: Everyday? LL: YesLang Lang
World Concert Pianist
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.. and authentic leaders know they are unfinished and that leadership is a
lifetime’s practice
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