Preparing for Senior Leadership - Tuesday 28 January 2025 (Broadway House, London)

This course is for: Aspiring Deputy Heads, Directors of Studies, Assistant Heads and other senior leadership roles.

Description

Course Outcomes – by the end of the course delegates will have:

  • Learnt about senior leadership roles and their opportunities and challenges
  • Understood their 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

Time

Session

09:45

Arrival, registration, and coffee

10.00 – 10.05

Welcome and introduction 

Speaker: Jill Berry

10.05 – 11.05

 

Session 1: Making the move from Middle to Senior Leadership 

Speaker: Adam Morton, Assistant Head (Staff Development and Wellbeing), Mill Hill School

11.05 – 11.25

Refreshment break

11.25 – 12.25

Session 2: Scenarios: Issues Senior Leaders might face, and strategies they might use as they step up to these challenges

 Speaker: Anna Paul, Head, South Hampstead High School

12.30 – 13.30

Lunch

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

14.30 – 14.45

Refreshment break

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

15.45 – 16.00

Closing remarks and depart

Course Director Biography

Jill taught for thirty years across six different schools in the UK, state and independent, and was a head for the last ten. Since leaving headship she has completed a doctorate, researching the transition to headship; written a book: 'Making the Leap - Moving from Deputy to Head' (Crown House, 2016) https://www.crownhouse.co.uk/publications/making-the-leap; and carried out an extensive range of leadership development work. In 2019 she spoke at a TEDx event 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