Diary

Motivating Mondays: What will you be wearing to the NCSL Conference in June?

May 14, 2012

I attend the National College of School Leaders Annual Conference. Previously I had been as a delegate with the soul purpose to learn. Last year I considered hiring an exhibition stand to showcase BlueKiteCoach but, after some great coaching from Helene Cooper and peculating some creativity, I came up with the idea of promoting myself [...]

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Motivating Mondays: Speed Dating with your Headteacher!

May 7, 2012

As a Headteacher you are always striving to improve communication between yourself and your staff to build better relationships. Well I wonder if you have ever thought of speed dating. This is a creative take on a classic model explained to me by a primary school Headteacher in a recent coaching/mentoring session. This Headteacher has [...]

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Motivating Mondays: What Gordon Ramsay taught me this week

March 26, 2012

I had an evening to myself on Wednesday and I thought that, rather than read the book I had been reading, I would just start a new book completely for me. From my big pile of ‘I want to read these someday books’ I chose an autobiography by the famous chef, Gordon Ramsay called Humble [...]

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Motivating Mondays: Why I wear fancy dress to work

March 12, 2012

Since June 2011 I have been wearing fancy dress to work. I get a fair few wry smiles, but when I explain that on the back of my olive green flight suit I have printed “I help teachers fly with BlueKiteCoach” then the choice of costume makes a lot more sense. Most recently I have [...]

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Help me to solve a creativity dilemma

February 19, 2012

I am going to the National College’s Annual Conference in June and I want my company to be memorable again for all the right reasons. Last year I went dressed as an RAF World War II pilot, you might remember me – olive green flight suit, leather flying helmet and goggles! On my back was [...]

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100th Blog Post Today! – a reason to celebrate by looking forward

January 13, 2012

In honour of this being my 100th blog post I thought I would make it something a little special, so I am sharing with you my Manifesto for 2012: This poster is now stuck on my window above my computer monitor. If you are interested in creating a manifesto for yourself then you will be [...]

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Middle Leaders who are going places with BlueKiteCoach

January 6, 2012

I am looking forward to working again with an inspiring group of leaders from the Henley Schools Partnership on the 31st January here. Between January and July 2011 I had the pleasure to work with eight of Henley’s very best leaders. Here is what they said about their experience: “Time to think about the bigger picture and to [...]

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Swindon Therapy Centre for MS

December 14, 2011

At the Swindon Women’s Business Premier Club this month we made donations to the MS Therapy Centre instead of sending each other Christmas Cards. Did you know that the Swindon Therapy Centre for MS treat children and adults from as far a field as Hertfordshire and Barry in South Wales? Did you know that the Swindon Therapy Centre [...]

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Can you YouTube in School?

December 5, 2011

I know that YouTube is blocked on many school’s networks so this is a test page to find out which of the following videos you can view. Please use the voting buttons below to let me know which of the videos below you can view on your network. Video A – Vimeo Grow Your Own [...]

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BlueKiteCoach Gets Top Billing

November 15, 2011

We were proud to be top of the bill in the Womens Business Clubs Newsletter this month with our new Eat That Frog Learning PlayTime on Prioritisation. This Learning PlayTime is part our brand new learning series designed to Grow Your Own Leaders launching in the Spring Term. Grow Your Own Leaders from BlueKiteCoach is a unique, [...]

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