Assess your team's readiness using the five ingredients: vision, skills, incentives, resources and a plan
A practical course for anyone taking on a leadership role for the first time, newly promoted, new to an organisation, or taking on different responsibilities. Across six modules you will assess your own readiness, build a compelling vision, plan a way forward, and pick up research-based advice on being, doing and considering as a new leader.
What you will be able to do
- Assess your team's readiness using the five ingredients: vision, skills, incentives, resources and a plan
- Read the difference between climate and culture before you start making changes
- Build and articulate a compelling vision that your colleagues can actually own
- Apply the seven climate dimensions to shape how your team feels and performs
- Use being, doing and considering to put research-based leadership behaviours into practice
- Build one-to-one relationships that establish trust in your first weeks in role
What is inside
6 modules, built to be applied at work.
Introduction
- Welcome to New Beginnings in Leadership5 min
Before you start: think and assess
- Stand back and assess: climate and culture7 min
- Assessing your readiness: the five ingredients9 min
- Capabilities and behaviours that matter as a new leader7 min
The importance of vision, direction and purpose
- Building a compelling vision8 min
- Providing clarity and stepping into a new role7 min
Planning a way forward
- Changing things for the better8 min
- Seven climate dimensions: clarity, rewards and standards9 min
- Seven climate dimensions: innovation, performance and teamwork9 min
- Two moments that show your impact6 min
Advice, guidance and tips for new leaders
- Who inspires you? Learning from your best boss8 min
- Being, doing and considering: three leadership behaviours10 min
- Turning research-based tips into your own action7 min
Final thoughts and conclusions
- Mindset matters: role models and a can-do approach8 min
- Building one-to-one relationships and getting on the team bus8 min
- Your leadership journey continues8 min
A credential you can prove
Finish the course and earn a 2 CPD hours certificate with its own public verification page. Share it on LinkedIn or attach it to an application; anyone can check it.
Taught by someone who does the work
Education leadership consultant, Promoting Excellence Ltd
- Promoting Excellence Ltd, education leadership consultants
- Specialist in inclusive and adaptive teaching
Peter Rushton is an education leadership consultant with Promoting Excellence Ltd. He works with schools and colleges to develop inclusive cultures and excellent mixed ability teaching, drawing on the latest Ofsted framework and Education Endowment Foundation research.
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