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From team member to team leader...

Senior leadership
Making the transition from being a member of your departmental team to the team’s leader is always a challenge. After recently making this move himself, Pete Matershaw offers some advice on becoming a middle leader.

I remember attending a Teaching Leaders workshop where we had to sit around a table and off-load some of the most stressful moments of our week. 

I would usually sit trying to embellish something that had mildly bothered me so that it could be useful for others in the group – who wants to hear everything is fine? 

But after my first week as subject leader of a team that I had grown up in and knew better than my own family, I had enough stories to fill double the sessions I had attended that year. 

However, one underlying message that has guided me through it all – it’s all about the kids.

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