Map what sustaining success actually requires in your own context using the fishbone approach
A practical course on sustaining success as a leader, drawing on Promoting Excellence's own diagnostic tools and its companion book on growing talent in education. You will map what sustained success actually requires, assess your own practice honestly, and build the skills to grow the people around you.
What you will be able to do
- Map what sustaining success actually requires in your own context using the fishbone approach
- Rate yourself honestly against Promoting Excellence's ten leadership characteristics
- Build an ethical culture around care, community and long-term success
- Apply the four cornerstones of organisational success: strategy, structures, people and talent
- Use the four-step model to create the climate, identify, nurture and assess the talent around you
- Place your team on the performance and potential matrix and decide what each person needs next
What is inside
9 modules, built to be applied at work.
What does success look like?
- The fishbone approach to sustaining success6 min
Characteristics of highly successful leaders
- Rating the ten leadership characteristics7 min
Ethical leadership and integrity
- Do you always act ethically and with integrity?5 min
- Achieving success in the right way5 min
Good practice for success
- A diagnostic on your own successful practice6 min
The four cornerstones of success
- An organisational maturity check7 min
Trust and workplace culture
- Building trustworthy behaviours6 min
The case for growing your own talent
- Why grow your own talent?6 min
- Creating the climate for growth6 min
- Spotting and nurturing talent7 min
Delegation and performance: developing your people
- How well do you delegate?7 min
- Where is your team on the performance and potential matrix?6 min
Bringing sustained success together
- Your commitment to sustained success7 min
A credential you can prove
Finish the course and earn a 1.5 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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