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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: A poem for your first term in a new school

April 16, 2012

Wow! This emotive and direct poem could have been written for your first term in a new school. Read or watch and listen (2m40) for yourself the stiring words from Amena Brown. “Different backgrounds and voices, but one heart accepting the charge to lead, to follow, to build a community because we want to do more than [...]

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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: What is your worst work nightmare?

March 19, 2012

What is your worst work nightmare? How about standing in front of a room full of your peers? How about standing in front of a room full of your peers and your presentation does this… iPhone/iPad users click here to view the video. BlueKiteCoach supports leaders, like you, to feel confident and comfortable leading learning to [...]

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Motivating Mondays: Richard Branson’s Advice to School Leaders

February 27, 2012

If time is short today then I recommend you listen to just the first and last minute of this video. Richard Branson says on success: “The most important thing about running a school is that you need to know what a school is. It is a collection of people. As a leader of people you need [...]

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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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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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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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Book Review: Eat that Frog

August 19, 2011

This is a book I have just finished reading and I thought you would appreciate a summary of the ideas and practical tools that are particularly relevant for teachers. I have included some questions from the book that you can ask yourself straight away and you can watch videos here. Title: Eat that Frog: Get [...]

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School Therapy?

June 24, 2011

Who’d have known that my school reunion could prove to be such a wonderfully rewarding form of therapy? School was a time I had packaged up in my memory (and put away in my oubliette). On the whole, the strong memories that had remained of my time at school (11-16) were unhappy ones and I [...]

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