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The Middle Leader Manifesto

We asked one question to 160 Aspiring, Middle and Senior Leaders in our Leading from the Middle programme: what does it take to grow into an excellent middle leader? — Know what you want. Have a goal to start with. Even better, have a cause. A strong cause helps guide your project towards a meaningful and valuable outcome. Simple ideas are ambitious ideas. There’s no such thing as a small change. Change meets with resistance whatever it is. A simple, clear vision with concrete ideas is a starting point…

Leadership

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The Middle Leader Manifesto
The Middle Leader Manifesto
Leadership

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notosh

·Dec 3, 2022

From the monologue of experts to the hospitality of dialogue

It all started out of frustration in the early days of the pandemic. We wrote our first Provocation emails in the third week of our British and Australian lockdowns, and asked people to subscribe. We’d been told these lockdowns would only last for two weeks. With that misplaced optimism, people…

Leadership

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From the monologue of experts to the hospitality of dialogue
From the monologue of experts to the hospitality of dialogue
Leadership

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notosh

·Sep 8, 2022

How do you keep people on board with your new ideas?

The Shinkansen is the famous Japanese bullet train. It is phenomenal. At 320kph, it’s gone through the station before you’ve even heard it coming. Most decent ideas are like those Japanese express trains. Dreaming up a big idea for your class or your school is really hard. …

Creativity

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How do you keep people on board with your new ideas?
How do you keep people on board with your new ideas?
Creativity

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notosh

·Jan 20, 2022

The true cost of not building on your middle leaders’ skills

We’ve done years of research into how aspiring leaders can become the engines of change in any organisation, but no more so than in schools. But many current middle and senior leaders don’t know how to harness them. There are two parts to being a great middle leader: You need…

Leadership

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The true cost of not building on your middle leaders’ skills
The true cost of not building on your middle leaders’ skills
Leadership

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·Sep 29, 2021

Provocations for every project

When you want a group of students to ask more questions on a topic than the teacher, a provocative clip, image or text can quickly open the floodgates of personal enquiry. Here are some of the favourites we’ve used at NoTosh over the last couple of years. Watch them before…

Provocations

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Provocations for every project
Provocations for every project
Provocations

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·Sep 1, 2021

Middle Leadership isn’t just about the middle leader: the senior team needs to work at it, too

A quick Amazon search for Leadership Books resulted in “over 60,000” titles, each with their own perspective on the traits and attitudes needed to be a leader. A scan of the top titles, their bylines and blurbs indicate that these books are focus on one person: the leader themselves. Not…

Leadership

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Middle Leadership isn’t just about the middle leader: the senior team needs to work at it, too
Middle Leadership isn’t just about the middle leader: the senior team needs to work at it, too
Leadership

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·Aug 30, 2021

A leadership programme guaranteed to impact your school

Education Scotland, the professional learning authority of the country, has endorsed NoTosh’s middle leadership programme. — This is what they said: The programme is well-structured as a series of three sprints through which participants progress as they work from vision and strategy to action and reflection on action. The content is delivered flexibly, focussed in discrete blocks with supporting online materials. …

Leadership

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A leadership programme guaranteed to impact your school
A leadership programme guaranteed to impact your school
Leadership

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·Apr 23, 2021

Family. Community. Work. The three areas of your life that matter most.

Mark Beaumont is best known for cycling around the world. Twice. 130 countries visited by pumping away on two pedals. None of that matters, unless it makes a purposeful difference on the world around him. Our family. Our community. Our work. Those are the three things Mark believes matter most…

Education

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Family. Community. Work. The three areas of your life that matter most.
Family. Community. Work. The three areas of your life that matter most.
Education

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notosh

·Mar 2, 2021

The future depends on today’s snow moon optimism

On Friday night, I found myself gawping at the sky along with hundreds of others across Edinburgh. The snow moon entranced us in a way that’s hard for an iPhone photo to capture. — I remember those nights of travel, waiting in Dubai, Doha or Istanbul. Having come off one long flight I’d have to wait a few hours before the next, morning flight would attempt to trick me into believing it really was breakfast time. …

Leadership

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The future depends on today’s snow moon optimism
The future depends on today’s snow moon optimism
Leadership

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·Feb 19, 2021

Designing a school for a community of people with beautiful minds

NoTosh is helping to create one of the most remarkable learning community on the planet. It’s remarkable because it’s a school just as much for parents as it is for their children. — In almost every school, ‘belonging’ features as a desired outcome. The pandemic threw learning online, but it also created opportunity and challenge in equal measure. …

Learning

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Designing a school for a community of people with beautiful minds
Designing a school for a community of people with beautiful minds
Learning

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I help people find their place in a team to achieve something bigger than they are. NoTosh.com

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