Leadership Skills

Leadership is the way in which we provide and inculcate in others a direction and a clarity of purpose. Management is how we go about achieving those ends. Both involve the input of others; in the accurate assessment of the current situation and the recognition of where we wish to be, thereafter, planning how those goals are to be achieved. The flow of information (feeling, thinking and knowing) should be a two way process giving rise to a common belief. The skills possessed by those involved in assuring the success of any school should be the soft skills of winning over hearts and minds, and the hard skills of controlling the process.

Senge believed that managers and leaders sometimes 'expect shared visions to emerge from an organisation's strategic planning process. But for all the same reasons that 'top down' visioning processes fail, most strategic planning fails to nurture genuine vision'.

• Self Management Skills
• Monitoring, Evaluation and Review
• Action Planning/Change Management
• Target Setting
• Inclusion through Delegation
• Language and Communication
• Planning for Personality
• Behavioral Mind Markers
• Auditing
• Observations
• Dealing with Obstacles
• Conflict Resolution
• Competency Proceedings