When we think of leadership, we tend to think of the leaders within our communities, ranging from politicians to clergy, sporting personalities to entrepreneurs, university professors, doctors, nurses to heads of departments, heads of schools, teachers. In this blog post, we will explore the concept of effective leadership mentoring in early childhood education using theRead More…
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New Year, New Goals, New Habits
As Christmas approaches, along with the end of a particularly eventful year, now is the perfect time to choose a few well-considered goals that will move you towards success for the new year ahead. While goal setting makes our intentions explicit, it is only the beginning of the work that will lead to success. WeRead More…
An organizations most valuable asset is their people
This week’s blog post discusses productivity and profitability. Last week, I mentioned how hard New Zealand teachers and leaders work. The reality is, as a nation we work really hard. With the exception of Iceland (a country that enjoys icy cold conditions and 6 months of darkness a year), the average New Zealander apparently spends moreRead More…
Leadership can be a lonely place
A colleague once shared a wise Chinese proverb with me. Loosely translated it says ‘it is a cold and lonely place on top of a mountain’. He was talking about leadership. We need to make a clear distinction here between between leaders and leadership. Leaders are not lonely people, per se. On the contrary. LeadersRead More…
Experience is the best teacher
The following quote from Bolman and Deal’s Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice, and Leadership had me thinking: “Experience, one often hears, is the best teacher, but that is only true if you reflect on it and extract its lessons”. How true. Professional development is all about continually learning to be a better teacher, and what betterRead More…
