BUILDING BRILLIANT: TEN TIPS!

After five years in Wolverhampton, North Yorkshire and York and nearly ten years in Leeds it has become easier to understand the keys to success, how to deliver outstanding outcomes and how to build brilliant teams. I have also learned what leaders need to know to release the magic...
It's funny but I have learnt that you don't need to look elsewhere to see great teams and brilliant leadership. Over the last twenty five years visiting simply hundreds of schools I have come to realise that you just need to look. Wherever you look there are simply extraordinary colleagues releasing the magic where it really matters... and that's true of every school I have ever visited!

So what are the ten tips?

1. Get to know your colleagues.
2. Keep asking your colleagues how things are going, what needs improving and what we can do better.
3. Delegate twice as much as you're currently doing to trust and empower your colleagues.
4. Constantly check colleague's understanding of what you are expecting them to do.
5. Set the direction and always be totally clear what you want.
6. Constantly and genuinely praise colleagues for doing the right things.
7. Constantly communicate and keep colleagues informed.
8. Consult with everyone about as much as you possibly can.
9. Listen constantly and ask your colleagues how they'd do things.
10. When colleagues are not performing well be really hard on the problem not on the people.

It's not rocket science, you can build brilliant and release the magic if you understand what works, that everyone can do it and that the keys to success are underpinned by learning leadership, beautiful systems and intelligent accountability and achieved through persistence, determination and sheer hard work.
Chris