Leaders must be willing to live in a state of becoming or reforming, an eternal beta mode, recognising that we are incomplete, with errors and mistakes being inevitable – and welcomed.
Leaders in this fluid state focus on learning and experimentation; on progress, and not perfection. One of my greatest sources of personal development are the leaders I have worked with to date – and the following lessons that they have taught me.
Early on in my career, shortly after moving to my second school, I was observed and, having planned and delivered a lesson that I was not particularly happy with, I cried in my deputy head’s office when receiving my feedback.
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