Inspiration

Motivating Mondays: Top 5 Tips for Change

February 20, 2012

We need to change in order to stand still, but not everyone in our school believes or appreciates this. From our work with Early Heads the topic of change is particularly challenging as we know that even the small changes you try to make can be faced with resistance and cause you immense frustrations. We [...]

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Incisive Questions – remove limiting assumptions and set the mind free

January 28, 2012

How often have you been asked to think about something in a different way or find new ways of doing a task and your first reaction is ‘I can’t do that’ or ‘thats impossible’? People make limiting assumptions all the time and they can hold people back from doing what they want to do or [...]

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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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Down with Boring Meetings!

December 30, 2011

I hate meetings where we are sent documents to read beforehand and then the documents are read out during the meeting. What is worse, when this is done and then no one has much to comment on them, what was the point? What would you do if you had made time to read it beforehand, [...]

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My Best Frog Recipe

October 18, 2011

Thank you to Charlotte Mannion and all the lovely ladies at the Womens Premier Business Club who I spent Friday afternoon with. Together we enjoyed the  BlueKiteCoach ‘Eat that Frog’ Learning Playtime. Here are a couple of short clips for you to enjoy from our PlayTime: More videos and learning on ‘Eating Frogs’  here.

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“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish” – Steve Jobs

October 7, 2011

In the news yesterday I watched snippets of Steve Jobs’s speech at Stanford University in 2005 and it really resonated with me, so, when I was sent a link to the full version, I took some time out to really listen to this inspiring man. What will you do today that others say is foolish, [...]

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Leadership and Learning are Indispensable to Each Other

October 7, 2011

We believe that all school staff are leaders. Whether you are leaders in the classroom or staff room. We all have the potential to influence the mood and motivation of others, even when we don’t know we are doing it. We can choose our attitude and choose how we talk to others. Take the conversations we [...]

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Replace the Operating System in Your Head

August 12, 2011

As a visual learner I love discovering new ways that describe the previously indescribable. This is what my ‘Guilt Chip’ looked like. Three years ago I found an image to describe the feeling of guilt that was at my core. It was amazing! As soon as I found an image I was able to describe [...]

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Teachers don’t like being done to

May 14, 2011

I think the following quote is very true and important for anyone planning CPD in schools to keep at their core. “Teachers don’t like being done to. They are professionals and you need to partner them and help them find their own solutions to a situation.” Ian Nurser, Shropshire primary headteacher and National Leader of Education. [...]

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Help! My Sat Nav is set to “Avoid Fun”

March 30, 2011

I believe that a Sat Nav is a fabulous metaphor for Vision both personal and professional. Yesterday I realized that I have spend the past 15 years with my SatNav set to avoid fun. In this month’s Wired magazine the letter from the Publisher, Rupert Turnbull, invites readers to send him a single paragraph detailing [...]

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