Talent spotting

Early warning signs of leadership Confidence & Credibility Gets Involved Heads for the gunfire (doesn’t look or walk away) Masters own role quickly and looks for more Emotionally Resilient Emotionally Intelligent Ability to See the Big Picture Make connections, deal with complexity Think from a whole school perspective Intellectual Curiosity & Capacity Asks the deep questions Develops self Self Awareness, Self Control, Empathy, Influence Slide 2: Early warning signs of leadership. Research into talent spotting has revealed certain traits of those with the potential for leadership. The list provides a list of some of these traits. Reflection: To what extent do you demonstrate these attributes? To what extent do others in your team / staff demonstrate these attributes? Why do you think these characteristics were identified as being so significant?

“The secret of success is consistency of purpose.” (Benjamin Disraeli) “Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” (G.K. Nielson) “The secret of success is consistency of purpose.” (Benjamin Disraeli) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.“ (Aristotle) Talent is not enough, improvement and expertise takes persistence and practice. For example, David Beckham taking free kicks, Andy Murray playing tennis

Developing expertise Elite performance is the result of at least a decade of maximal efforts to improve performance through an optimal distribution of deliberate practice What distinguishes experts from others is the commitment to deliberate practice Deliberate practice is: an effortful activity that can be sustained only for a limited time each day neither motivating nor enjoyable—it is instrumental in achieving further improvement in performance Dylan Wiliam – SSAT Conference Keynote (Dec 2012) Research indicates that it takes 10 years and 10,000 hours of practice to reach elite level. You can see more on this in Dylan Wiliam’s 2012 presentation at the SSAT National Conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1LL9NX1hUw

Matthew Syed Two books that are worth further reading are ‘Bounce – the myth of talent and the power of practice’ and ‘Black box thinking – the surprising truth about success’ . The author, Matthew Syed, is a former English number 1 Table Tennis player, Oxford University student, journalist and broadcaster. Champions are not born, they are made. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1K6bOG8mj8