Stop, look and listen – school leader Phil Denton offers some reflection and advice on how we can make our meetings count and ensure our time is not wasted

At whatever level we operate in school, we spend an increasing amount of time in meetings. Many will say that the further up the ladder you climb, the more time you spend in meetings. Sometimes we can find ourselves meeting about meetings. Whether you are a teacher, a teaching assistant, a middle or senior leader, we should realise that meetings use up our most precious resource, time. With that in mind it is my belief that we should look at meetings in that light, a serious investment of an expensive and valuable time-based resource.

Simon Sinek’s simple but great book (Start With Why, 2009) discusses where we should start from when making decisions about leadership. His message is simple: start with why.

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