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CPD workshop: First steps as a middle leader

CPD Aiming for headship Middle leadership
Our series offering free in-school CPD templates continues. Steve Burnage talks us through CPD ideas that can be adapted for your school. He offers a template for a 45-minute workshop, with free handouts and slides. This instalment looks at CPD for those taking their first steps into middle leadership

This purpose of this article is to provide a 45-minute interactive training outline that could be suitable for a staff meeting, staff development group, small group CPD session or for individual study.

The training outline is included here while the PowerPoint slides and an accompanying participants’ handout is available to download by clicking the two supplement buttons above.

In order to facilitate the training, you will need:

Starting to lead will focus on the three key pieces of learning that those new to middle leadership need to know:

So, before we address the first question of what middle leaders and managers actually do, let’s reflect on what we mean by middle leadership and management.

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