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Widening Horizons Programme

Widening Horizons Programme. Professionalisation of Governance Les Walton July 2013. The Importance of Governance. Autonomy and Accountability Responsible for? Responsible to?. The ‘Professional Debate’. Selected Contracted Appraised Accountable Quality assured Leader Competent

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Widening Horizons Programme

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  1. Widening Horizons Programme Professionalisation of Governance Les Walton July 2013

  2. The Importance of Governance

  3. Autonomy and Accountability Responsible for? Responsible to?

  4. The ‘Professional Debate’ Selected Contracted Appraised Accountable Quality assured Leader Competent Ethical Expert • Proficient • Skilled • Trained • Practised Specialists • An expert • Specialised Accredited • Qualified • Certified • Licensed Paid? Remunerated? Reimbursed? Rewarded? Compensated? Unpaid? Voluntary?

  5. Ensure the Fundamentals of Effective Governance are in Place Committee room, designed 1901, in Halifax Town Hall

  6. Develop Effective Governance Organisational Effectiveness Framework Policy Development Framework Outcomes Leadership Progression Quality Standards and wider Managerial context Leadership climate and Competencies Performance Emotional Intelligence Climate £ Finance Collaborative effectiveness

  7. Cross the Line and Know Reality Learning Walks Governor Visits Governor Focus Visits

  8. Settle the Skills and Representation Debate

  9. Create a Skills and Representative Based Board For example in North Shore Academy: Portfolio holders: • Les Walton (NET) Chair – governance and Leadership and remaining areas including non-teaching staff • Chris Roberts (NET) Vice Chair - finance, resources, pupil premium and performance management and Science • Lorna Mcclean (FE) behaviour and Attendance and SEN • Sue Smith(Staff) – achievement and Humanities • Caroline Reed (Primary) – teaching and learning and English • John Copping ( Business) – planning and Mathematics Community Representation • John Franks (parent ) – parent voice and review procedures • Barbara Inman (Councillor) – community voice and review procedures • Professor Paul Keane ( University) – links with further and higher education and child protection • Celia Weldon ( Health Service) – pupil voice • Bill Jordon (Principal) - governance and leadership • Lynda Brown (Local Authority) - partnerships

  10. Do not Rely on self evaluation and Ofsted

  11. Bring in External Challenge and Support a Variety of Sources Ethics and Standards Committee Non-executives Achievement Partners External Audit Peer Challenge Local Scrutiny Observers

  12. Seek Continuous Improvement agreeing the agenda chair’s remarks pre-briefings real time actioning the responder stakeholder briefings the representative network values and principles leadership styles the chair CX relationship framework for development Chair and Board performance appraisal external scrutiny ministerial reviews

  13. Maintain Constancy of Purpose within a Constantly Changing Environment ‘Create constancy of purpose for continual improvement of product and service’ Edward Deming The long-term future is important and should serve as the focus for changes. Target the future, become more competitive, grow, and provide for the long term needs rather than short-term profits. The existence of a long-term purpose brings with it the climate of stability and longevity and a climate within which continuous improvement is realistic. Investment in process quality and product innovation both have their rewards in the future. Clearly, long-term constancy of purpose is a top management output. Deming considers this to be management’s number one priority and obligation. Deviations from the purpose must be dealt with by appropriate action immediately. Clear long-term aims lead to clear policies, clear ‘The secret of success is constancy of purpose’ Benjamin Disraeli

  14. Maintain Constancy of Purpose during Transition (LSC- YPLA – EFA) ( IEB- SIB ) • “Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.” Denis Waitley • “The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.” • Marcel Pagnol “We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation.” Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)

  15. Maintain Constancy of Purpose through the Curriculum

  16. Tackle the Hard Stuff – Catch the Rabbits of Vocationalism and Academia If you chase two rabbits, both will escape. If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. The first rule of focus is this: wherever you are, be there

  17. Most of all be Ethical

  18. The end

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