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Thriving & Surviving: Strategies for Effective Head Teachers

This guide by Professor Tim Brighouse explores the keys to successful headship including vision, skills, incentives, resources, and action plans. It navigates through challenges head teachers face like confusion, anxiety, resistance, and frustration. The book outlines complex changes, levels of delegation, time management, building capacity, and avoiding breakdowns in a head teacher's role. It emphasizes success, multifaceted approaches, inclusivity, lifelong learning, and different phases in headship. The text provides practical advice and strategies for aspiring and current head teachers to excel in their leadership roles.

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Thriving & Surviving: Strategies for Effective Head Teachers

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

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

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