Next Practice in System Leadership

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Next Practice in System Leadership

‘Practice that is aware of conventional 'good' practice, its strengths and its limitations; and which explicitly sets out to move it to a new level, or even in some cases radically

to change it.’

What is Next Practice?

•Conducted by very able, informed practitioners

•Informed by critical scanning of the environment to ensure that the projects are not replicating other work

•Directed at serious, contemporary problems

•Not (yet) officially sanctioned and therefore maybe entailing some risk.

CURRENT PURPOSES/DRIVERS

Support schools causing concern

Deliver ECM ‘five outcomes’

Deliver ‘All-age’ learning

Develop 14-19 curriculum provision

Develop ‘whole town’ services

Deliver shared services more efficiently

Resolve headteacher succession issues

FUTURE PURPOSES/DRIVERS

Market development

Dissolving school boundaries

User demands for personalised services

LBSI Leadership development needs

User-

centred

SharedLeadership

MultipleSites

Multi- Agency

Wider system receptivity/support

GovtPolicy

Scaling-up

Next Practice in System Leadership

Structures

Roles

Strategies

Knowledge

Behaviour

Skills

Roles

Responsibilities

and structu

res

Knowledge

and skills

Tasks

Approaches

and Processes

LinkingConnecting AssemblingConstructing

OperatingFunctioning Lived in

Designing, sourcing, gathering

L E A D E R S H I P

Decentra

lised,

Participatory

Lateral,

Occasional

Top-down,

Closed

Stakeholder Orientated

User Orientated

Organisation Orientated

GOVERNANCE ARRANGEMENTS

Next Practice in System Leadership

• Some comparisons:– The Conglomerate– The Community– The Alliance– The Self-organising network– The Employee-owned school network– The Consumer governed service