Educational Leadership: Personal Growth for Professional Development / Edition 1

by Harry Tomlinson

Overview

This book outlines personality and identity, motivation and reward strategies, the emotions of leadership and the values and ethics which underpin professional integrity. Using a practical but evidence-based approach, Harry Tomlinson outlines how to develop creativity, assertiveness and emotional intelligence using techniques such as neuro-linguistic programming to model excellence. The author shows how teachers can use work on effective people to develop their own performance and to develop high performance teams. The psychology of success, the new professional career model, and the new psychological contract with schools as learning organizations can all contribute to this. At school level, the book includes coverage of · strategic planning and future-thinking · business process re-engineering· organizational health, culture and climate · schools as organizations, · knowledge management · benchmarking for professional development · quality processesThis book is for all teachers who are determined to enhance their professionalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761967767
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/05/2004
Series:	Published in association with the British Educational Leadership and Management Society
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Self-Management and Personal Development
Self-Understanding, Personality and Psychometric Instruments
Emotional Intelligence
360-Degree Feedback
Accelerated Learning, the Brain, Competencies and Interviews
Neurolinguistic Programming and Professional Development
Improving Communication Skills
Developing Creativity, Intuition and Innovation in Schools
Managing Stress and Managing Time
Career Development and Development as a Professional
Training, Coaching and Mentoring
Interpersonal Skills, Decision-Making and Team Learning
Leadership Development
Performance Management
Ethics, Values, Vision, Mission and Gender
Culture, Change and Organizational Health
Strategy
Quality Models
The Learning Organization and Knowledge Management
Business Process Re-Engineering
Achieving Radical Change
Work and Life
Achieving a Balance and Planning for the Future

Editorial Reviews

'This wide-ranging and thought-provoking book provides an alternative approach to personal and professional leadership development. Although directed at headteachers, it has much to say to all staff irrespective of whether they are in formal positions of leadership.

Given the increased attention to professional development, this is a timely publication, and will cause those who read it reflect as well as providing a wealth of approaches and ideas which can be used in their school' - Colin Parker, Headteacher of King Edward VI Aston School, Managing Schools Today

‘This is an exceptionally good book that clearly brings together the author's experience as a headteacher and academic. Harry Tomlinson is an educationalist with deep insights into the personal development dimension of leadership. This is not your standard leadership book; instead it is a unique set of ideas, concepts and observations that comprehensively covers 'the how' of building leadership abilities.With twenty chapters, this is a significant resource for practitioners, leadership developers and academics' - Professor Brent Davies, International Journal Educational Management

‘This book will undoubtedly help school leaders and potential leaders, acquire a basic understanding of the essential elements in understanding themselves and others in the professional context' - Times Educational Supplement

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