ABSTRACT
We are offered a ‘leadership development framework’ which will ‘ensure’ ongoing development throughout a head’s career. So if any of you lot are skulking in your offices muttering ‘Psha, I finished developing 10 years ago, bog off’, you can forget it. I am particularly intrigued by the idea of the ‘five stages of leadership’ and have prepared some helpful worksheets which go something like this:
Stage 1: say boo! to goose. Stage 2 (still easy): deny day off to NQT who might cry. Stage 3: (tougher) tell hulking, crew-cut, ex-territorial head
of D & T department that no, there is absolutely no question of replacing the lathe before 2004.
