ABSTRACT

This chapter looks at how school leaders and their leadership team can take communication skills to the next level so they inspire and motivate those around them. They clearly set the standards, culture and direction for everyone else in their school, so being able to inspire and motivate is critical if they want to stand out from the crowd. Education leadership is clearly no different. So, if school leaders find being an inspirational communicator challenging, then they are not alone. The chapter provides ten frameworks for inspirational communication. The frameworks are understand who the leaders are who need to inspire, assess how inspiring school leaders are right now, create their inspirational 'North Star', build their team, it is the little things that count, support their team in learning from each other, watch their language, the power of stories, get emotional and planning their inspirational communication.