During my first two years of headship I have learned a great deal, some of which has come from studying the theory of leadership in more depth, other aspects of my development have come from learning from mistakes.
Once I secured a leadership position in a school I spent the first few years surviving on common sense, gut instinct and just being a pretty good teacher. However, I soon discovered that as a head, this just isn’t sufficient if you want to be successful and certainly if you want to have a long career leading a school.
I embarked on my NPQH qualification at the start of my headship and it quickly made me realise just how much I had been missing out on in my preceding years as a leader. Since then I have devoured leadership books from the likes of Michael Fullan, Andy Buck and John Tomsett and it has certainly changed the way I think, the way I work and the way I am.
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