Heads hold everyone else’s worries all day. Coaching is often the first hour in weeks to voice your own.

It isn’t being told what to do. It’s room to work out what you already know.

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I spent years as a head writing Monday’s to-do list every Friday. Never once wrote a ‘done’ list.

This afternoon, write both. Then celebrate what you actually achieved.

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If you're a headteacher, you insure your school against fire. Nobody insures you, the one doing the actual firefighting.

Capability doesn't come with capacity. That's the cover most headteachers are running without.

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You can care about your staff without becoming their counsellor, confidant, or substitute parent.

You're not their mother (or father). You're their headteacher. That's enough.

New episode of my podcast out on Monday 21.9 wherever you get yours.

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Delegating gate duty and the document nobody wants isn't the same as delegating the parent tour, or safeguarding, the stuff that actually grows people. Ask yourself: admin, or opportunity? #TheIntentionalHead #SchoolLeadership

Thank you Joel Hinchliffe for Episode 14 of The Intentional Head. Generous with his time and his strategies for making a genuinely tough job more manageable. Worth thirty minutes of your commute. Link in first comment.
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