People Solutions for School Leaders by Bowes, Maureen;

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Focusing on the many challenges faced by school leaders in different contexts including primary, secondary, rural and urban settings, this book helps you find practical solutions that work for your circumstances, align with your values and support your relationship with yourself and your people.

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Focusing on the many challenges faced by school leaders in different contexts, including primary, secondary, rural, and urban settings, this book helps you find practical solutions that work for your circumstances, align with your values, and support your relationship with yourself and your people. It shows you how you can keep well, manage workload, accept differences, confront what is unacceptable, break through what’s uncomfortable and awkward, collaborate, and rediscover your joy in the profession.

Based on over twenty years of lessons learnt from coaching headteachers and school leaders, People Solutions for School Leaders builds on the foundations of respect, adaptability, a coaching approach, and embedding habits. It gives you what you need to know about leading people in this rapidly changing education system. Chapters feature:

• Themed coaching questions for yourself, your staff, and the people ‘above’ you.


• Activities for team meetings and training days with access to free resources and downloads.


• Headteachers’ shared experiences – in their own words.


• Ways to connect effectively with others, so people ‘get you’ and you ‘get them.’


• Principles of emotional intelligence you can put into practice across your school community for stronger working relationships, successful teams, and community cohesion.

Full of practical insights and actionable strategies, this is essential reading for school leaders across all phases, governors and trustees, and all those with a coaching or mentoring role in education.

Tartalomjegyzék:

Part 1: Foundations  1. Respect - valuing yourself and valuing others equally  2.  Adapting the way you communicate and motivate.  3. Empowering others through (coaching) questions  4. Embedding habits: keeping the momentum going for lasting change  Part 2: Wellness  5. The life-changing benefits of self-compassion  6. Choices for everyday wellbeing  7. Personal organisation  8. Mental and emotional fitness  9. Responding to anxiety Part 3: Reducing Workloads  10. Workloads for everyone’s wellbeing  11. Living the school values  12. Clarifying expectations Part 4: It’s all about relationships  13. Sharing responsibility  14. Resilient relationships  15. When parents get angry  16. Necessary conversations  Part 5: A sense of belonging  17. Adding the human element to Inset Days  18. I, me, or we? Criteria for being a team player  19. Buzzing: emotional intelligence in teams  Part 6: Raising morale  20. Getting real about low morale  21. Overstretched. Leadership and the widening parameters of inclusion Part 7: Self reliance  22. What really stops you prioritising your wellbeing?  23. Finding fulfilment  24. Creative self-compassion  Part 8: Navigating towards a hopeful future  25. Consolidating your personal development