Widening Leadership

A professional leadership development

programme for senior leaders

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Level Three
This accredited programme can be the catalyst for you to begin
your senior career or build on your passion for leading others
towards success in their roles. The programme is designed to
enhance your understanding of strategic leadership as a senior
middle leader or new senior leader.

The London Centre for

Leadership in Learning
20 Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0AL
www.ioe.ac.uk/lcll
lcllprogrammes@ioe.ac.uk

Who should apply?

Experienced senior middle leaders with at
least three years experience in the role

Programme Content

Programme Information

Day 1: Communication

Fees for 2014/15

560 for the six month professional
programme. This includes three face-to-face
leadership days and a final twilight
session at the Institute of Education.

Leaders new to senior leadership roles

Leadership communications

Leaders who have already undertaken

previous professional leadership
development

Advanced listening skills

Professional support staff e.g. school

business manager

Leadership vision
Effective adult learning
Coaching
Beginning action research

The programme will help you:

Accreditation options

To lead yourself, your team and beyond

your team

Day 2: Motivation

Clarify your communication style

and strengths
Understand the use of motivation as a
leadership tool

Motivation of self and others

Goals and motivation
Time management

Advance your skills in leading and

influencing others

Leading change

Intensify your impact on learning

and teaching practices

Empowerment

Deal with contentious issues and

whole school initiatives

Day 3: Dialogue

What do participants say about

the programme?

Distributive leadership

Very inspirational facilitators.

The programme has given me
confidence as a leader and
developed skills to enable me to
work effectively in my role.

The delivery was outstanding,

very clear and supportive.

From start to finish everything

has been well organised and I
have always come away having
expanded my knowledge.

The programme gave me so much

empowerment, confidence and belief.
The course leaders were inspiring
practitioners and the sessions
so enjoyable.

Coaching, mentoring, line management

Leadership styles
Delivering change through project
management
Team culture
Challenging dialogues
Understanding the role of SLT and
decision making
Inter-sessional tasks
Inter-sessional tasks will be undertaken
between the leadership days including the
completion of an online diagnostic between
Day 1 and 2. During the programme leaders
will carry out action research which will
involve working across the school or with
another team. Participants will have access
to an online resource based network
throughout the programme to enhance
learning and enable further networking
Twilight session
The programme finishes with a learning
conversation and celebration twilight
when you will present and discuss your
action research.

LCLL Working with you at the critical edge of research and practice
Belonging to our dynamic and professional learning community offers you opportunities
to develop and use knowledge about the relationship between leading and learning.
Join us today at www.ioe.ac.uk/lcll/membership

Start dates
Autumn, Spring or Summer term.
Registration
To register for the programme please
complete and return a registration form or
book online via the IOE website.
Accreditation Option
There is an option to use this programme
to gain 30 Masters Credits towards an
MA. An additional cost is payable.
Full information will be provided at the
start of the programme.
Schools, Collaboratives,
and Local Authorities
The programme can be run on-site for
schools and local authorities contact us for
costs and more information.
International
For international schools and groups of
schools, the programme can be run at your
overseas venue contact us for costs and
more information.
For further information contact
Maggie Woods
London Centre for Leadership in Learning
Institute of Education
20 Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0AL
T: +44 (0)20 7612 6616
E: lcllprogrammes@ioe.ac.uk
www.ioe.ac.uk
Quality assured professional
development from the IOE
LCLL inspires outstanding leadership and
professional development in education
and childrens services through its
innovative programmes and research. It
is an international centre of educational
excellence of the world-renowned Institute of
Education, University of London.