Leadership Impact ...

A series of four practical workshops providing a set of powerful tools and insights to help middle leaders tackle common school leadership challenges.

Join us for a series of impactful, professionally facilitated workshops designed to empower and equip middle leaders in North East schools. Designed as a valuable complement to NPQ content frameworks, these discounted sessions will provide valuable tools, strategies, and insights to help you enhance your leadership skills and make a positive impact in your school community.

Who should attend?

Phase leaders, heads of department, and anyone aspiring to a senior school leadership role. If you need a boost to help you lead at your best, strengthen your people leadership skills, or to take on a bigger leadership role with increased confidence, then these sessions are for you!

Facilitator

Each workshop will be facilitated by Kerry Lord, BTS Spark leadership consultant and partner for the North East. Kerry is a qualified coach, an experienced facilitator, and an ex-headteacher.

Pricing

BTS Spark already offers not-for-profit pricing, but these workshops have been further discounted to ensure they are affordable for all. 

£95 + VAT per person per workshop.

£50 + VAT per workshop for each additional colleague from the same school.

£250 + VAT to attend three workshops (£150 + VAT for additional colleagues).

£300 + VAT to attend all four workshops (£200 + VAT for additional colleagues).

Dates

  Workshop 1 Workshop 2 Workshop 3 Workshop 4
  Leading at your best Navigating difficult conversations Leading with authenticity and confidence Developing your coaching skills
2024 Dates 9th May 2024 4th July 2024 19th September 24 5th December 2024
2025 Dates 5th February 2025 12th March 2025 2nd April 2025 7th May 2025

Timings

Each workshop will take place between 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m.

Venue

Bede Room, The Linskill Centre, Linskill Terrace, North Shields, Tyne and Wear, NE30 2AY

Don't miss this opportunity to grow and develop as a leader!

N.B. Please be aware there are only 25 places available for each workshop. Slots will be allocated on a first-come first-served basis so early booking is recommended to avoid disappointment. 

Workshop 1 – Leading at your best

School leadership is not easy at the best of times and thus being able to maintain our personal resilience and resourcefulness even at times of pressure and uncertainty, is a vital capability. In this session we will explore what stops us (and others) from being at our best as a leader and explore the beliefs, patterns, and qualities within us that drive these reactions, so that we can more readily return to great, authentic leadership.  

In this session we will cover:

How to recognise when we are not at our best and the impact this has on our leadership.

Understanding the 'mindtraps' that commonly derail us and what triggers these.

Discovering strategies and tools for managing our state and supporting others to regain their resourcefulness.

Workshop 2 – Navigating difficult conversations

For many in a school leadership role, certain conversations can feel particularly daunting and difficult – whether these are discussing performance issues with a colleague, debating a difference of opinion with a firm-minded governor, or needing to respond to a demanding parent. In this session we will introduce a simple, yet powerful and practical framework that can be applied to all conversations, including the ‘difficult’ ones, to help you build genuine two-way dialogue – creating transparent, powerful interactions which drive better outcomes.

In this session we will cover:

The foundations of a Powerful Conversation and how to build and maintain trust and safety.

Listening techniques and questioning strategies to build stronger connections.

Understand power dynamics and how to leverage your authentic power to manage difficult conversations more confidently.

 

Workshop 3 – Leading with authenticity and confidence

Even the most experienced leaders will lack confidence at times and experience what’s known as the ‘imposter syndrome’. While this is very natural, lack of confidence is a mindset and not a reflection of ability, outcomes or success. During this session we will help you to use this insight to build a more confident mindset – enabling you to project authentic confidence and authority when you find yourself in critical situations.

In this session we will cover:

Why showing up as your whole authentic self makes you a more effective leader

Understanding Imposter Syndrome and what gets in the way of self-confidence

The four sources of confidence and how to project confidence and authority in critical situations

Workshop 4 – Developing your coaching skills

Thursday 05 December 2024 from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Many of us progress to leadership roles by becoming experts and exceeding expectations, but to help others develop and achieve, we must shift our focus from being problem-solvers and decision-makers, to being leaders who empower and coach our teams to succeed. We need to be able to instil ownership and accountability in others as well as in ourselves, and enable them to unlock their full potential and solve problems for themselves.

 In this session we will cover:

How to adopt a coaching mindset and build your own confidence as a coach.

Using coaching skills to enhance the quality of your daily conversations.

Recognising your natural coaching style and how you can flex this to best meet the needs of the individual and the situation.
BTS Spark, 2024