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 that a business leader can learn from a school leader and vice versa.
I learnt early in my entrepreneurial journey that the role of a headteacher was, in essence, no different from any other manager or leader in business. A headteacher faces exactly the same relationship dilemmas, the same crisis of confidence, the same sense of being out of control…
Does this sound familiar to you?
Do you have a passion inside you and a vision for your school that transcends what you are able to achieve right now?
You might like to read the following adapted extract from the book I am currently reading “E-myth Mastery- By Michael E. Gerber”:
Headship is the strength to lead. And the [e-myth mastery] disciplines are about the leadership every headteacher needs to possess through understanding if her vision is to become a world class reality…
Because above all, for a headteacher to evoke in the world a concrete world class representation of her imagination – visual, emotional, functional, and financial – she must possess a kind of leadership resonance. Leadership resonance describes the connection between a headteacher and the leadership she is called to bring to everyone around her… The vision is excitingly vague but moving, a representation of the picture the headteacher sees in her head and her heart. The actual expression is something that the headteacher has never seen in real life. “So that’s what it looks like, my vision!” the headteacher is likely to say. And the headteacher who is also the leader must understand the leadership disciplines, the seven essential disciplines you and I are going to investigate together, if she is ever going to succeed at manifesting her vision through other people, the only way she can. Otherwise, her vision will always remain unformed. It will never become concrete. It will never find in reality what the headteacher experiences in her imagination. It will never become what it needs to become, what it deserves to become, a faithful expression of her imagination in real life: a real community, coupled with a real vision, each with its own purpose, but each with one purpose, to make the body of the school sing. But as the visionary leader grows with understanding, and begins to create, the resonance is felt like a deeply dozing drum, the skin tight, the drumstick radiating from the skin, the sounds welling out and far away, the music that makes the body begin to dance in sync, in step, in the hugging loving motion of the passion’s lover embracing this, embracing that, forever, for everything.
That is what leadership resonance is. It connects the world with the visionary passion. It connects the passion of the headteacher with the world.
Technically the above is not a quote as I have replaced the word entrepreneur with the word headteacher, however I feel it embodies the passion and vision that radiates from the headteachers I have the privilege to work alongside every week.
Perhaps you would like to share below how you are currently connecting your passion for your school (or your business) with the world.
