Just because you’re in management and you’re part of a team doesn’t mean you are working effectively as a management team. Sometimes people get promoted for being in the right place at the right time; sometimes it’s because they are a great classroom teacher; sometimes it’s because there’s no-one else to fit the bill. In some schools you get management by still being alive and, anyway, who else would do the timetable…?
Sending people off on a management training course (with titles like ‘So, You’re In Middle Management Now!’ or ‘An Office of Your Own – Now What?’) has its uses but still can result in one or two members of the team knowing how to spot five ways in which the management team is getting things wrong without developing the team working skills to get it right.
One of Independent Thinking’s latest recruits is Mick Supple who is able to offer a different solution: working with the team in situ, in school and helping them work together to bring the best out of themselves, their colleagues and the children.
Despite his background as a drama teacher along with business experience and an MA, Mick is not going to give you off-the-shelf answers and ten easy steps to management heaven. What he does do so well, however, is help you to see for yourselves what the issues – and potential solutions – really are in a way that is active, enjoyable and thought provoking. In his own words:
‘Solutions to issues or challenges generally lie with the individuals and groups who face them on a daily basis. My role is simply to awaken the group to these solutions and help them think through the possibilities and challenges that then ensue’
And because Mick’s work takes place in your school over the course of a day it is very much based in real practice - addressing real issues in a real school. Working in this way also guarantees that each day is 100% tailored to your needs and wants and totally focussed on the issues facing your school, something you rarely find in the standard sort of management course.
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To make contact with Mick and see how he can help you work as an enlightened and effective leadership team please call the Independent Thinking office on 0709 239 9617 or e-mail us at learn@independentthinking.co.uk