1. How successful head teachers thrive & survive
Professor Tim Brighouse

2. Complex change = Skills Incentives Resources Action Plan CONFUSION
Vision
ANXIETY
RESISTANCE
FRUSTRATION
TREADMILL
CHANGE

3. 9 levels of delegation
Look into this problem. Give me all the facts. I will decide what to do.
Let me know the options available with the pros and cons of each. I will decide what to select.
Let me know the criteria for your recommendation, which alternatives you have identified and which one appears best to you with any risk identified. I will make the decision.
Recommend a course of action for my approval.
Let me know what you intend to do. Delay action until I approve.
Let me know what you intend to do. Do it unless I say not to.
Take action. Let me know what you did. Let me know how it turns out.
Take action. Communicate with me only if action is unsuccessful.
Take action. No further communication with me is necessary.

4. Values Success not failure Multifaceted not general
Inclusive not exclusive
Ipsative not normative
Life long not once and for all

5. 4 periods of headship
Initiation
Development
Stall
Decline

6. 5 uses of time ‘They sit on the wall not the fence’
‘They are ‘skalds’ not ‘scolds’
‘They teach, learn and assess for most of their time’
‘They spend their evenings weekends and holidays….working….socialising….and being a member of a family’
‘They spend two hours a week in acts of unexpected kindness’

7. 6 tasks of headship Create energy Build capacity
Meet and minimise crisis
Secure and enhance the environment
Seek and chart improvement
Extend the vision of what’s possible

8. 7 ways to avoid a breakdown
Manage your diary
Find allies
Have a 7-10 year service!
Stop doing one of your regular tasks for a term to allow someone else to do them
Remember to be the ‘Jack’ or ‘Jill’ of all trades and master of none
Become an expert ‘driller’ and a lepidopterist
Collect hyacinths