February 2019
Having Hard Conversations | 5-6 February 2019 | Madrid
Course led by: Jennifer Abrams As educational leaders and colleagues, we often come up against situations where difficult topics must be addressed - with supervisees, colleagues, parents or students. What do we know about the best strategies for those moments? What questions should we be asking ourselves before we speak, and what environments are best for when we do speak? Based on Jennifer's books, Having Hard Conversations and Hard Conversations Unpacked, and her work with conflict and interpersonal communication, this…
Find out more »BUILDING & LEADING TEAMS (ML COURSE) | MADRID | 19-20 FEBRUARY 2019
In this two-day course, these questions are explored: What are some characteristics of a highly functioning team? How can I facilitate the creation of a team focused on student learning? How can protocols, structures and norms facilitate thinking and a focus on student learning? What types of conversations are critical, and when are they likely to occur? What processes and behaviours can be prepared in advance to enable difficult situations and conversations to be well managed? From the extensive body…
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Cultivating Mindful Leadership | Madrid | 22 -23 March 2019
Join us in Madrid for this 2 day workshop designed to help school leaders and aspiring school leaders cultivate the skills, knowledge, and dispositions necessary to develop an effective and sustainable approach to leading in complex and demanding school environments through fostering awareness, resilience and wellbeing in self and in others. Outline Educational leaders have highly demanding careers and typically report their jobs are so chronically stressful that they are often unable to renew and recuperate sufficiently. Although research on…
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MANAGING AND EMBRACING CONFLICT (ML COURSE) | MADRID | 9-10 APRIL 2019
This two-day course focuses on the vital work leaders must do to manage and embrace conflict in their professional lives. During the course, participants learn to identify when they are in a conflict and what their roles and responsibilities are within such a situation; strategies and protocols to draw on for further conversations / dialogue / discussion to prepare for, engage in, and manage conflicts; and to explore ways to recognise and avoid conflicts.The course will address the following questions:…
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