Leadership Programme August 27, 2007
Posted by Bill in : Leadership, Outdoor Learning , trackback
I had a meeting on Friday With Don Leddingham and Ollie Bray to pick up on some ideas generated from Don’s Project adventure day during a recent trip to Harvard and Ollies recent posts on leader development Basically we hope use the impact of OMD (Outdoor Management Development) learning sessions and build them into Leadership Training for Education staff within East Lothian. With input from Alan Blackie and Kirsty Macrea our meeting soon developed some ideas for making this happen;
- Launch training, concentrating on nurture and well-being theme with an Outdoor day at a Head Teachers Conference in the Spring.
- Develop a training model of excellence using the local East Lothian Enviornment.
- Use the “training talent” within East Lothian to launch and staff future training days.
- John Muir to be the “model” and icon for the programme. “Leave no Footsteps”(still trying to find actual J Muir reference to this quote!)
- Potentially target a wider audience (commercial, community).
The course could be modelled on “emerging leaders” such as the one employed by the Leadership Trust, inspiration could be taken from other courses i.e. Heads Up and Columba 1400. There is certainly a need to focus the aims of the training and any launch event.
The next step is to set up a management team to inject ideas and focus the aims and of course get the project moving. This would ideally be made up of ;
- 2 Head Teachers from Secondary
- 2 Head Teachers from Primary
- Representatives from local Business
- Head of Education
- Head of Community Services
- Head Of CPD
- 2 representatives of Outdoor Education
- Ranger rep and/or Access officer
I have already broched the subject with enthusiastic Primary Heads and I know that Don is approaching Secondary Heads and local business contacts. I look forward to our meeting as it will
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