ABSTRACT
Target setting in collaboration with staff should be an enabling process that establishes a mindset of possibility and realisable achievement. It provides the headteacher with opportunities to create a culture in school that recognises that improvement can occur from within school, and that the staff themselves have the necessary control to determine and create the kind of school that they want to achieve. The process of defining targets, establishing methods through which they will be achieved and then going about the business of achieving them is an empowering process where it carries with it the philosophy of involvement of staff. Targets tend to be directed at improvements to school structures. That is, to make changes to the immediate, the visible and the tangible side of school activity. The technique that we can use to initiate a sense of clarity about the target is to inquire of the intention.
