Helen Woodward
Moving on from Headship: Where do you start?
Many of us with careers in education came into the work expecting we’d always be in teaching or education leadership. Our passion for...
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Helen Woodward
- Jan 27
- 2 min
Why Work with a Coach? Learning to Lead the Way You Want to be Led
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to one another.” John F. Kennedy. The success of an organisation’s ability to learn, adapt and...
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- Sep 1, 2022
- 4 min
Good Reads: The Heart Aroused by David Whyte
The Heart Aroused is a great read for anyone grappling with what it means to keep humanity in the daily experience of work; what David...
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- Nov 22, 2021
- 5 min
Good Reads: The Art of Innovation
The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley with Jonathan Littman. Jono Hey, Chief Product Officer at Zen Educate mentioned this book during a...
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- Aug 30, 2021
- 6 min
Five Books I Wish I'd Read Before Leading a Team
Successful leadership is about the impact we have on those around us, and the extent to which we enable those we lead to be the best...
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- Mar 18, 2021
- 6 min
Why global connections and overseas professional development matter
There’s a Chinese saying; ‘Because the fish are the last ones to know about the sea’. The writer alerts us to the complacent state we can...
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- Jan 15, 2021
- 6 min
Navigating moods and emotions, and the peril of positivity.
I recently read an interview with James Taylor where he talked about ‘the precarity of our emotional lives’. Nearly twelve months into a...
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- Jun 15, 2020
- 4 min
How an Across School Change Team can lead the way as more children return to school.
‘Leadership is needed for problems that do not have easy answers. The big problems of the day are complex, rife with paradoxes and...
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- Jan 15, 2020
- 2 min
'The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice...'
I borrowed Alan Sieler's 'Coaching to the Human Soul' having seen it on a friend's bookshelf in 2017. This was my introduction to...
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- Sep 15, 2019
- 3 min
The game changer in teacher supply coming to Manchester, UK.
Photo with thanks to William McCue
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- Sep 4, 2019
- 4 min
New year, new term, time for a new habit?
I recently saw Steve Huffman co-founder and chief executive of the online discussion forum Reddit sharing three tips for success. ‘Really...
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- Jul 12, 2019
- 6 min
Speaking at a TEDx, the learning, the wonder and the joy!
©2019 Photo courtesy of the Office of PR & Marketing (American University of Kuwait)
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- Jun 23, 2019
- 3 min
The Inaugural Black Sea Schools Teacher Conference 2019
Brave is when you risk something new, without knowing how it will turn out, because the purpose is good.
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- Nov 28, 2018
- 2 min
Ontological Coaching Workshop with Alan Sieler (author of Coaching to the Human Soul).
I undertook my first coaching training with Gerry Egan back in 2008 based on his Skilled Helper Model. Gerry was always insightful,...
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- Oct 24, 2018
- 2 min
So what is it you do exactly?
It’s a good question, and one worth dwelling on for all of us. Reflecting on the last two years, most work begins with a top line...
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- Sep 30, 2018
- 2 min
Strategic or scenario planning? Which do you need when?
Someone wise once said, ‘We can be certain of two things, you will die and you will pay taxes.’ Not quite everyone does the latter it...
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- Dec 16, 2016
- 4 min
School improvement off the beaten track part 2.
‘Helen, the children say you are sitting quietly like a pumpkin!’ Kamal, the headteacher, said with a chuckle. I was quiet, happy, and...
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- Sep 25, 2016
- 3 min
School improvement off the beaten track
I’ve just had my third Rabies vaccine and am checking my water sterilisation tablets are in date; I’m preparing for a school visit,...
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