The Seven Deadly Demons of Deputy Headship

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Working in schools with like-minded colleagues and young people is the best job in the world. However, there is enough tension, anxiety and hard work in the role of senior leader, without fending off attacks from the tiresome adversaries discussed in these pages. Whether you are a career deputy or have your sights set on Headship, I hope that this short book will help you identify and defeat some of those demons that battle with us in our capacity as senior leaders. Magpie some of the ideas contained in this book and fend off The Wrecker, The Wretch, The Mangler, The Curdler, The Challenger, The Nobbler and The Gorgon. After all — why reinvent the wheel? Demons are in all organisations. There has to be because organisations are made of people and as people we all contain an element of demon at some time or other. The demons contained in this book however, if not stopped, will shimmy up behind you and pull a thread, unravelling all your efforts, bringing that carefully balanced load crashing about your ears. Let’s sort them out.