Personal Leadership Development

Ensure a high priority for school's CPD particularly in supported distributed leadership

Develop your leadership strategies in a range of contexts

Become a coach for other headteachers and your own senior staff
Maintain your own professional knowledge and understanding of leadership developments

Undertake a further degree with a focus on the impact of leadership
Foster a culture of distributed leadership within your own school

School Support for Leadership Development

Governing Body
- Provide resources to support headteacher’s performance management/development/work life balance
- Support distributed leadership structure to enable headteachers to focus on strategic school priorities
Senior leadership team support headteachers in operational and strategic running of the school

Provide opportunity to undertake further study
Provide support for head to take increased role beyond the school

Support the distributed leadership culture within the school to aid and facilitate succession planning

Developing Leaders Through Collaboration

Lead local consortia/cluster arrangements

Develop joint projects with other local HTs and/or agencies

Hertfordshire Leadership Development

Take part in and contribute to 'Lead in Herts' leadership development programme

Access HGfL leadership website at
www.thegrid.org.uk/leadership

Become a 'headteacher advocate'

Access career coaching for headteachers

National Leadership Opportunities

National College Research associateship and bursaries
International School Visits (TIPD)

HEI Further study leading to Masters/MBA/PhD/EdD

National College Professional Partner (supporting new headteachers)

National College Local Leader of Education (LLE)