Fifty practitioners from Birmingham are currently on a training programme to discover how they can extend the boundaries of their existing leadership roles. With an emphasis on children's centre workers, participants in the city council's seven-day leadership programme are learning some of the secrets of successful leadership.
'Freer-thinking leaders released from the confines of the now-moment can do what is necessary to enable their setting to improve outcomes for children,' says Martin Hawthorne, early years training advisor for Birmingham City Council. 'We encourage leaders to listen to what their environment and the people in it are telling them, and to use their judgement to decide the best way forward.'
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