Overview

Focusing on the many challenges faced by school leaders in different contexts, including primary, secondary, rural, and urban settings, this book helps you find practical solutions that work for your circumstances, align with your values, and support your relationship with yourself and your people. It shows you how you can keep well, manage workload, accept differences, confront what is unacceptable, break through what’s uncomfortable and awkward, collaborate, and rediscover your joy in the profession. Based on over twenty years of lessons learnt from coaching headteachers and school leaders, People Solutions for School Leaders builds on the foundations of respect, adaptability, a coaching approach, and embedding habits. It gives you what you need to know about leading people in this rapidly changing education system. Chapters feature: Themed coaching questions for yourself, your staff, and the people ‘above’ you. Activities for team meetings and training days with access to free resources and downloads. Headteachers’ shared experiences – in their own words. Ways to connect effectively with others, so people ‘get you’ and you ‘get them.’ Principles of emotional intelligence you can put into practice across your school community for stronger working relationships, successful teams, and community cohesion. Full of practical insights and actionable strategies, this is essential reading for school leaders across all phases, governors and trustees, and all those with a coaching or mentoring role in education.

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Author:   Maureen Bowes
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9781032945408

ISBN 10:   1032945400
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   30 September 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Foundations 1. Respect - valuing yourself and valuing others equally 2. Adapting the way you communicate and motivate. 3. Empowering others through (coaching) questions 4. Embedding habits: keeping the momentum going for lasting change Part 2: Wellness 5. The life-changing benefits of self-compassion 6. Choices for everyday wellbeing 7. Personal organisation 8. Mental and emotional fitness 9. Responding to anxiety Part 3: Reducing Workloads 10. Workloads for everyone’s wellbeing 11. Living the school values 12. Clarifying expectations Part 4: It’s all about relationships 13. Sharing responsibility 14. Resilient relationships 15. When parents get angry 16. Necessary conversations Part 5: A sense of belonging 17. Adding the human element to Inset Days 18. I, me, or we? Criteria for being a team player 19. Buzzing: emotional intelligence in teams Part 6: Raising morale 20. Getting real about low morale 21. Overstretched. Leadership and the widening parameters of inclusion Part 7: Self reliance 22. What really stops you prioritising your wellbeing? 23. Finding fulfilment 24. Creative self-compassion Part 8: Navigating towards a hopeful future 25. Consolidating your personal development

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Author Information

Maureen Bowes is an Executive Coach and Leadership Mentor specialising in coaching for Headteachers and Senior Leaders in Education. She offers advice on personal development along with practical coaching questions through her website: www.solutions.peopleintelligence.com

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