Developing as an Educational Leader and Manager

Leadership is, at once, an organisational quality and a personal quality. This practical book covers key issues such as handling time, difficult people and situations, recruitment and selection, and values. This accessible and clear book places an emphasis on leading organisational improvement and leading strategically within changing policy contexts. It includes sections on: - evolving as an educational leader - leaders and context - working across boundaries and borders (with international examples from the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, and more) - the evolving educational leader as researcher. Practising educational leaders and managers, and students on Masters, EdD courses, training and national development programmes such as the National Professional Qualification for Headship and SQH.