Stepping Up to Senior Leadership
How does it work?
Using SSAT’s quality assured materials, two teachers from your school will attend an online Train-the-Trainer event to become qualified trainers. They can then deliver the programme to a cohort of staff in your school or across your networks creating the opportunity to generate new and significant income streams.
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Course Content
There are five fully resourced modules with tutor notes to enable in-house delivery.
- personal and professional readiness
- developing a vision for yourself as a senior leader
- leading change and managing complexity
- leading, motivating and influencing
- finance and HR management.
Each module is designed as a two-hour training session. Modules are not intended as a one size fits all approach as we recognise that no ‘off the shelf’ package will completely meet a school’s needs. We encourage you to tailor materials in a way that suits your context and choose to select, adapt and add to the content.
Note: there is a minimum purchase of five modules.
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Module information
Module 1: Personal and professional readiness
Aims for the session
To develop your personal and professional readiness for senior leadership through:
- Reflecting on what may be different about senior leadership roles.
- Discussing concerns and potential challenges.
- Reflecting on your professional journeys and how these experiences have prepared you for the role.
- Evaluating your own strengths and areas for development.
- Becoming more self-aware, more emotionally intelligent.
- Reflective leadership coaching.
Module 2: Developing a vision for yourself as a senior leader
Aims for the session
To develop your personal and professional readiness for senior leadership through exploring:
- your own leadership vision, moral purpose and values
- importance of vision alignment
- how culture contributes to high performance
- differences between strategic leadership and management
- leadership approaches and styles and their application
- characteristics of strong schools.
Module 3: Leading change and managing complexity
Aims for the session
To develop your understanding of leading change and complexity through exploring:
- implications for leading in a time of constant change
- theories and models to support effective change management
- how you can lead change and manage complexity
- difference between ‘wicked’ and ‘tame’ problems. How you can apply the learning in their contexts.
Module 4: Leading, motivating and influencing
Aims for the session
To develop your theoretical and practical understanding of leadership, motivation and influence through exploring:
- the three circles model of leadership
- theories of motivation and how you can motivate others
- the power of influence, how you can influence others and how others influence the work you do
- strategic leadership for school improvement.
Module 5: Finance and HR management
Aims for the session
To develop understanding of school budgets, finance and human resource issues through exploring:
- how schools are funded and how finance is managed
- how you can save your school money and generate income
- some key principles related to financial management in schools
- the role a senior leader plays in HR issues and the skills you need to do this
- building upon & applying what you learnt.
Key information
SSAT Members: £1,250 + £200 per module
Non-members: £1,825 + £300 per module
Dates:
Facilitator training will be provided at a date and time to suit you
Group sizes:
Deliver training to groups of up to 20 participants
