School leadership lessons from your favourite superheroes

Latex-wearing, weapon-wielding, villain-backside-kicking superheroes may look fantastic in comic books and on the big screen, but until now how many of these crime-fighting super men and women have stopped to wonder the lessons that they are teaching those that have been recently recruited to their foundation year of senior leadership?

Here are five essential rules from the world of superheroes to help newly recruited senior leaders in their initial and important year.

Braced for action on a chilly September morning, I arrived at my school ready for my first day as a senior leader. I had spent two-weeks on the intensive but highly rewarding Foundations Training course with Future Leaders in the summer. I had covered all eventualities in my training that would face me that term (so I thought), including difficult parents, underperforming colleagues and failing faculties.