1. Leadership and Management in Languages (LMM1)
Resource 2

2. Management
Management relates to people working within a structured organisation and with prescribed roles
‘Management tends to involve a preoccupation with the here and now of goal attainment’ (Bryman)

3. Management Functions of management include:
Establishing overall policy
Organising work, allocating duties and responsibilities
Giving instructions
Monitoring – checking that performance is going according to plan

4. Leadership
Leadership shows the way by providing purpose and direction (vision)
Leadership influences and motivates through example and shared vision
Leadership gets people to perform to the maximum level of their capability through having a shared goal

5. Management Leadership
Practicalities Strategic direction
Current situation Future
What are we doing? What could we be doing?
What can we do? What would we like to achieve?

6. “Management is prose, leadership is poetry” (Adair)

7. Responsibilities of Head of Department

8. Responsibilities of Head of Department
Performance management
International dimension
Behaviour management
Data analysis
Promoting languages
Curriculum planning
Resources budget
Extra-curricular activities
Coaching and mentoring
SLT links
Ofsted
Vision ?

9. Improving the quality of Teaching and Learning

10. Qualities of leadership
Enthusiasm
Integrity
Toughness
Fairness
Warmth
Humility
Confidence
(John Adair)

11. Key skills The ability to: know where you’re going (have a vision)
know how to get there
motivate others to share your vision
think clearly
develop good relationships
communicate your vision clearly
be objective
be decisive
know when and how to delegate/empower

12. Clips from famous characters on leadership

13. Vision
A vision is a do-able dream based upon the realities of a group’s strengths and resources (Loeb and Kindel) 18

14. Vision or Mission?
The vision statement sets out where you are going and forms the basis of strategic planning
The mission statement explains your purpose (‘Why do we exist?’)
The vision is aspirational, related to the future, whilst the mission is concerned with the present

15. The Four Ds Do
Dump
Delegate
Delay

16. Delegation Retains control of all tasks1
Retains control of all tasks
Reluctant to let colleagues participate in anything
Overworked and unable to prioritise
Assigns tasks, but these tend to be unpopular and/or menial
Interferes in the task and undermines colleagues’ authority
Afraid of colleagues being too autonomous
Allows individuals to take responsibility for specific areas
Tasks carefully chosen to develop colleagues’ skills
Coaches and supports colleagues 2 3

17. Managing the challenge
Thinking of all the challenges discussed, which of these could help you to manage the stress and keep you working healthily, happily and effectively?
Sympathetic line manager in school
Good head of languages in a local school
Trusted fellow subject leader in school
Partner
Sense of humour
Headteacher
Online forums
Outside interests e.g. sport/fitness
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