1. Annual Conference for Coordinators of Governor Services 8 th October 2009 Steve Munby Chief Executive National College for Leadership of Schools and Children’s Services Leadership

2. 2 “Work is about daily meaning, as well as daily bread; for recognition as well as cash; in short, for a sort of life, rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying… We have the right to ask of work that it include meaning, recognition, astonishment and life” Studs Terkel

3. 3 1. Distributed and sustainable leadership

4. 4 Enhanced and effectively deployed school business managers have the potential to drive significant benefits for schools – enabling through the transfer of leadership and management tasks from the Headteacher to SBM up to 1/3rd saving of their head teacher’s time; Around 5% of non salary related costs could be saved for reinvestment through more skilled and effective financial management; Through the encouragement of business partnerships of small schools, SBMs could through economies of scale spend less on several fronts, freeing up resources for the classroom and in circumstances of falling school rolls in rural areas help achieve sustainability. School Business Managers

5. 5 2. Alignment within our organisations

6. 6 “The biggest sign of trouble is when everybody tells you they are achieving their objectives, yet the company is in bad shape. Because when you have a situation where everybody feels good about what they are doing personally and is blind to how much what they are doing is causing trouble…..nobody feels really responsible for the situation of the company and that is why there was no sense of urgency” CEO, Nissan

7. 7 3. Alignment beyond the organisation & outward facing leadership

8. 8 National Leaders of Education & National Support Schools 1.5% 7.1% 2.1%

9. 9 National Leaders of Education & National Support Schools 3.5% 1.3% 1.8%

10. 10 i) Done to us rather than with us ii) Hoarding iii) Don’t know where to look iv) Chemistry Common reasons why organisations/schools struggle to collaborate:

11. 11 4. Developing future leaders

12. 12 i )Identify leadership talent in a systematic way. Local Solutions.

13. 13 ii)Address retention and opportunities to ‘step up’

14. 14 iii)A new approach to leadership development

15. 15 A new approach to leadership development: Develop Middle Leaders Support for New Headteachers Develop System Leaders

16. 16 5. Indomitable and Compassionate leadership

17. 17 “Excellent Companies provide two things simultaneously, tough environments and very supportive environments” Tom Peters

18. 18 “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle” Plato

19. 19 6. Optimistic and Cheerful leadership

20. 20 “I have spent much of my life studying the great philosophies – but cheerfulness kept breaking through” Leonard Cohen Photo: Rama