Leadership
Lead a Team of Support Staff – Leadership Skills
Lead your support staff with confidence, even when the team includes old friends and not everyone shares your plans.
- 23 minutes
- 6 modules
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
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14 days free, then £70 a year or £7 a month.
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What you'll learn
- Reflect on the qualities of good leaders and set three targets for yourself
- Spot the habits, like not delegating, that could trip you up
- Run a meeting where your team writes a shared vision together
- Prepare for and hold a difficult conversation that ends in clear actions
- Deal with negative attitudes by getting others in the team behind the message
About this course
Stepping up to lead a team of teaching assistants is hard, especially when last term they were your colleagues and friends. It's easy to lose your nerve the first time someone pushes back.
Start by working out the leader you want to be. You'll think about leaders you've admired (and some you haven't) using a downloadable checklist, then pick three areas of your own to work on. There's a step-by-step plan for a meeting where your team writes a shared vision together, which you can bring them back to whenever a project drifts.
The toughest part, the difficult conversation, gets practical help too. Sit alongside rather than across the table, decide the outcome before you go in, let silence do some of the work, and leave with actions and dates agreed.
- For middle leaders and support staff. All phases.
6 modules
Open in order
- 2 min
Introduction
- 2 min
Wrap up
- 5 min
Unpicking the qualities
- 5 min
Aspirations
- 6 min
Maintaining confidence
- 5 min
Difficult conversations