1 Day Practice Leadership

1 Day Practice Leadership

1 Day Practice Leadership

Practice Leadership (PL) Launch February 2025.

Please contact us for further details and early bird price concession

Foundation. This is an introduction to the values, principles and activities associated with practice leadership.

Duration. 1 Day

Price ฿5600 per person. Minimum and maximum participants, flexible. Please contact us for details.

To ensure that staff work together as an effective team, good leadership is required. Given that people providing direct support to students in tier 2 and 3 need to be working consistently and from a trauma informed perspective team leaders need to be able to support the development of staff knowledge and skills and to provide ongoing motivation and direction. We call this ‘practice leadership’ to distinguish it from the broader sense of management and leadership found in any organisation to emphasise its focus on leadership which is embedded and visible, actively modelling and shaping values and best practice. Leadership which is ‘visible’ and ‘proactive’ in the workplace rather than remote (Mansell & Beadle Brown 2012).

The importance of visible and accessible practice-based leadership in developing trauma informed positive behaviour support approaches and reducing restrictive practices cannot be overstated. This course identifies the key skills required of practice leaders and the activities they should be engaged in. It differentiates ‘management’ from ‘leadership’ and emphasises that if managers are unable to fulfil leadership functions, then that gap must be filled by somebody else.

Following this training participants will be able to describe the key skills and activities associated with effective PL and be familiar with a number of models and tools to measure their effectiveness and plan for development where needed

Value Base

This session describes the values which underpin good quality, student centred planning and action. The emphasis is on a proactive model of behaviour support with a focus on trauma informed quality of life and wellbeing interventions rather than reactive approaches. Evidence shows that such an approach nurtures capable environments within which needs are better understood and met. A natural corollary of this is reductions in restrictive practices and behaviour that challenges. The role of the practice leader in espousing firm values based on children’s rights, person centred planning and social inclusion, modelling them in practice and where necessary defending against compromise are discussed in this session. School based case studies identifying systemic failures are used to highlight what happens when organisations lack values led practice leadership.

Management Versus Leadership

This session teases out the differences between management and leadership. Participants will learn about the potential conflicts between the demands of the roles of manager and practice leader. We pick up on themes described in Deveau and Gill’s framework for thinking about frontline management / leadership to facilitate participant discussion and learning.

Characteristics of Practice Leadership and Practice Leaders

‘Guiding’ and ‘showing’ the way

Participants will look at a working definition of ‘Practice Leadership’. Research which identifies the personal characteristics and actions of successful leaders is also discussed as well as keys skills associated with practice leadership.

Participants focus on the nuts and bolts of what practice leaders do. They will leave with an understanding that it’s not just coaching staff, it’s about communicating clear and consistent messages about values, expectations, and effective performance management. Participants will look at the role as operationalised by United Response which identifies two categories of activities which need to be undertaken. The first is ‘Guiding’ which is providing direct guidance and organising available resources to enable effective and individual support; and the second ‘Showing the Way’ – Providing clear and relevant service expectations.

Implementation and Personal Assessment

Participants will look at two evidence models designed to facilitate the implementation of Trauma informed Positive Behaviour Interventions and Supports. This will help practice leaders shift their organisation away from reactive cultures of behaviour support toward proactive cultures.

Participants revisit the content of the previous session, ‘Guiding and ‘Showing the Way’ and use a tool to assess their current capabilities against each of the 12 key competencies.

Based on this assessment they will leave with a personal development plan based on SMART objectives designed to improve their performance in 3 of the key competencies.

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