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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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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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Being Comfortable In The Skin You’re In

March 13, 2011

Inspired by the final of Let’s Dance for Comic Relief on Saturday, my sister and I rewatched the performances of Robert Webb and Rufus Hound, the winners in 2009 and 2010. You may remember that Robert danced to ‘Flashdance’ and Rufus to Sheryl Cole’s ‘Fight for this Love’. They reminded me how much I admire [...]

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What is the difference between a Headteacher and an Entrepreneur?

March 15, 2010

Within teaching there are some teachers that adamantly believe that they can’t learn anything from a primary school teacher if they work in a secondary school, or from an english teacher if they are a maths specialist. Frankly, I think this is rubbish! And I would go even further by saying that there is much [...]

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Early Headship Funding Changes

October 16, 2009

The way that Early Heads are funded is changing, the flexible grant is being phased out and all heads will need to have spent any monies left from their flexible grant by March 2011, or 3 years from date awarded, which ever is sooner. I have put together a mindmap of the options available to Early Heads in [...]

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Head Higher Competition Launched

October 4, 2009

Win an exclusive Head Higher session by writing a paragraph about a work challenge you have overcome. For more details click here Winners announced on Friday 16th October

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Coaching for New Heads – Working with your Deputy

March 23, 2009

BlueKiteCoach provides coaching to head teachers and management teams nationally. Get in touch today to discuss your needs and discover if coaching is the right match for you. Teachers TV’s latest video is a great example of how a little input from a coach can go a long way to boosting the confidence of a head teacher and supporting her to feel less isolated.

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Wanted: Outstanding relationship builders with stamina and humanity

March 20, 2009

Would being a head teacher appeal to you if stamina and humanity were the top two required characteristics or if relationship building was the most important skill?
I’d love to know what you think.
Thanks to an article on page 4 of SecEd this week, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the National College for School Leadership (NCSL) book of inspirational leaders entitled Turning Heads – it’s free to download and you don’t even need to put in your e-mail address!
Read my full blog post for quotes and my comments on this inspiring read…

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BlueKiteCoach is now (un)limited!!!

November 1, 2008

On Tuesday 28th October 2008, BlueKiteCoach Limited was officially registered with Companies House. On Thursday 30th October 2008, BlueKiteCoach Limited received it’s first piece of junk business mail!

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Why do businesses succeed or fail? HINT: It’s not just sales.

October 18, 2008

From the first paragraph of Jeffrey Gitomer’s latest e-zine, I was hooked. “Everyone has heard the phrase ‘The American Dream.’ I look at it as ‘The American Reality.’ When you’re in business for yourself you write your own history, you write your own success story, you write your own legacy, and most important you write [...]

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