Preparing for Senior Leadership - Tuesday 26 January 2027 (Broadway House, London)
Aspiring Deputy Heads, Directors of Studies, Assistant Heads, and other senior leadership posts
Description
leadership posts
By the end of the session you will have:
- Learnt about senior leadership roles and their opportunities and challenges, including from a serving senior leader in an HMC school
- Understood your own development needs and career pathways in preparation for a senior leadership role
- Learnt about the application, interview, and recruitment process
- Developed insight into making an effective transition to a senior leadership role
Course Programme
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Time |
Session |
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09:45 |
Arrival, registration, and coffee |
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10.00 – 10.10 |
Welcome and Introductions
Speaker: Jill Berry
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10.10 – 11.10
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Session 1: Making the move from Middle to Senior Leadership
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11.10 – 11.25 |
Refreshment break |
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11.25 – 12.25 |
Session 2: Scenarios: Issues Senior Leaders might face, and strategies they might use as they step up to these challenges
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12.30 – 13.30 |
Lunch |
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13.30 – 14.30 |
Session 3: What the head is looking for, both in appointing a new Senior Leader, and in working with their Senior Leadership Team
Speaker: Jill Berry |
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14.30 – 14.45 |
Refreshment break |
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14.45 – 15.45 |
Session 4: The Senior Leader you hope to be: What the best Senior Leadership looks like, and what you have learnt from positive and negative leadership role models
Reflection: Where are you now, and what might be your next steps if you are to secure the Senior Leader position you dream of, make a positive transition into the role and do the job well?
Speaker: Jill Berry
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15.45 – 16.00 |
Closing remarks and depart |
Meet your Course Leader
Jill taught for thirty years across six different schools in the UK, state and independent, and she taught adults to GCSE and A level in the evenings for several years. She was a head for the last ten years of her time in schools. Since 2010 she has completed a doctorate, researching the transition to headship and written a book about it: 'Making the Leap - Moving from Deputy to Head' (Crown House, 2016) https://www.crownhouse.co.uk/publications/making-the-leap (also now available as an audio book); and carried out an extensive range of leadership development work. She has given a TEDx presentation on the subject of ‘Take a Second Look: Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Others’: https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_berry_take_a_second_look_bring_out_the_best_in_yourself_and_others and she has published four novels. See her author page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B01JSM9UXI
Jill is an advocate for the opportunities presented by social media for networking and professional development, on Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/jillberry102, on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jill-berry-a5a55a21/ and blogging about education at https://jillberry102.blog/