 |  | Are you ready for leadership?
Stepping into a new leadership role for the first time involves preparation, self belief and above all the right attitude, Helen Beckett discovers. Here, teachers recall why they chose to lead. |
|
| | How to choose an effective team
|
|
| | Nurturing potential school leaders
|
|
| | How to deal with difficult staff
|
|
| | The real skill of leadership: don't assume anything
|
|
| | Do you work in a happy school?
More than nine out of 10 headteachers believe they work in a happy school – but try telling that to staff. |
|
| | Getting more than the bare minimum from your staff
|
|
| | Leadership: general career advice
|
|
| | Transmitting optimisim to staff
|
|
| | Are you out of touch with your employees?
The danger of managers becoming out of touch with employees. |
|
| | Coaching staff to a higher degree
|
|
| | Do you need to hire a PR adviser?
|
|
| | Excited by the challenge of leadership
With a shortage of leadership looming, Nick Morrison talks to a one teacher excited by the challenge of leadership. |
|
| | Getting stressed over staff
A primary school once hired a new caretaker, writes Gerald Haigh. Before long, it became apparent that he was a disaster: manipulative, sly and dishonest. |
|
| | Gifted and talented co-ordinators
Teachers responsible for nurturing gifted and talented pupils are due for some specialist training, but how will it be funded? Judith Barrett investigates. |
|
| | How to keep science staff happy
They prefer smaller classes and more lab assistants to better pay, say researchers. Jonathan Milne reports. |
|
| | How to pass the baton on to a new leader
There's a right and a wrong way to pass the baton to an incoming leader, writes Gerald Haigh. |
|
| | Leaders need time to think... about leading
Headteachers are demanding guaranteed time away from ringing telephones and other interruptions. Jonathan Milne reports. |
|
| | Heads of department: 'stand up and be counted'
Heads of department must stand up and be counted as effective middle leaders, writes Gerald Haigh. |
|
| | News: call for one school, one head (May 2007)
Primary headteachers oppose the Government's plans to use federations to cover leader shortages. Jonathan Milne reports. |
|
.jpg)
