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Identifying and developing talent

Identifying and developing talent

With nearly a quarter of current heads approaching retirement age, the profession will soon lose a great swathe of experienced leaders. Find out how you can help solve this problem by identifying and developing tomorrow's leaders.

  • Identifying talent

    To ensure sufficient numbers of leaders for the future, today’s headteachers and governing bodies must be proactive in identifying leadership potential.

  • Developing talent

    Research by the National College pinpoints practical steps schools can take to encourage and develop new leaders.

  • Growing your own leaders

    Some schools have succeeded in growing their own leaders from within their own staff.

  • Targeted support for succession planning

    The National College is engaging with key local authorities to provide targeted support that will enable them to identify and develop new headteachers for schools in their area.

  • Diversity and widening the talent pool

    Diversity and equality are important issues for schools working to establish effective leadership teams that reflect the communities they serve.

  • Nurturing talent: a National College discussion

    Find out what our members had to say about nurturing leadership potential in this summary of an online network discussion.

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Case studies
  • Mentoring at a primary school
    National College resources: identifying and developing talent case studies. An aspiring deputy at Chuter Ede Primary school has been supported by in-school mentors, including the head, at different stages of her career.
Interactive resources
  • Encouraging diversity in leadership (talk2learn highlights)
    National College resources: An audio discussion about how diversity in school leadership can be encouraged.
  • Distributed leadership works
    National College resources: This audio clip presents a discussion about distributed leadership, how to introduce it, and how it might help make leadership more sustainable.
  • Women into headship
    National College resources: This audio discussion asks why there's such a discrepancy between the number of women teaching and the number of women leading in headship positions.
  • Playing your part
    National College resources: In this video presentation, a current headteacher talks about how to develop and inspire the leaders of the future.
  • Heading on up: women and leadership
    National College resources: In this video presentation, Dr Marianne Coleman explores the barriers that women who aspire to headship may face.

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Articles
  • Developing talent
    National College resources offering guidance about ways to prepare and develop new leaders via national programmes and in-house initiatives.
  • Identifying and developing talent - case studies
    National College resources: these pages contain case studies of schools that have identified and developed talent as part of their succession planning strategies.
  • Diversity and widening the talent pool
    National College resources: diversity and equality are important issues for schools working to establish effective leadership teams that reflect the communities they serve. These resources offer guidance.
  • Targeted support for succession planning
    National College resources: the College is engaging with key local authorities to provide targeted support in order to develop new headteachers for schools.
  • Identifying talent
    National College resources: to ensure sufficient numbers of leaders for the future, today's headteachers and governing bodies must be proactive in identifying leadership potential.

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