Principled Headship Author:Terry Mahony, Terry Mahoney This book gives headteachers and aspiring headteachers specific and immediately useable skills in successfully leading a school. Introducing some of the newly emerging methods of improving leadership skills, it shows teachers how to clarify and strengthen beliefs and values in order to achieve higher levels of personal effectiveness, and to conv... more »incingly motivate colleagues. Unlike most current books on school leadership, PRINCIPLED HEADSHIP reaches way beyond the 'What' of effective and desirable attributes of good school leaders to provide a programme of behaviours and exercises, a 'How' of successful leadership through which teachers can develop the attributes necessary for running a school brilliantly. Utilising the techniques of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, this book is essential reading for all those contemplating launching themselves into a teaching career, with school leadership as their goal. Simply, PRINCIPLED HEADSHIP is a revelatory read for both present and future headteachers.« less