The Magic in the Space Between: How a unique mentoring programme is transforming women's leadership


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Responding to a challenge posed by state and independent school leaders, Ian Wigston put together a team of experienced leaders from business, the public sector and the military to enable nearly a hundred women to explore their potential for school leadership. The Magic in the Space Between explores how mentoring, in tandem with a variety of innovative community projects undertaken by the women, provided a platform for each of them to develop a range of skills which saw more than a quarter achieve promotion within two years. As well as telling the stories of individual success, frequently challenging their own assumptions, the book includes contributions from former Schools Minister David Laws, actor Juliet Stevenson and Commodore Mel Robinson, one of the most senior women in the Navy. The book concludes with proposals to address the continuing problem of building a pipeline of future women’s leadership in education.




The Magic in the Space Beyond: Transformational case studies from the frontiers of women's leadership


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Responding to a challenge posed by state and independent schools, Ian and Hilary Wigston launched a unique mentoring programme to transform women's leadership in education. This programme, explored in the 2021 book The Magic in the Space Between, achieved huge success in the UK and led to similar initiatives in North America, Australasia and Africa. This new book, The Magic in the Space Beyond, presents a series of transformational projects produced by aspiring school leaders who were given the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues from around the world. Inspired by their world-class mentors, these remarkable women have forged new and innovative pathways for their own development while researching and documenting radical solutions to contemporary issues. These case studies explore the new frontiers that educators and students face every day, including: · How to respond to the god-like nature of social media influencers. · Building a proactive strategy to address neurodiversity. · Addressing post-pandemic mental health. · Developing a playbook to enable student resilience.




Transformational Coaching for Effective Leadership


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The purpose of this book is to introduce the concept of transformational coaching and to educate professional business coaches or mangers-as-coaches in their organizations on the influential and relevant elements of Transformational Coaching for Effective Leadership designed for coaching individuals, teams, and businesses or applying such elements in any level of organization development intervention, either toward individuals, teams, groups, departments, or the organization itself. Given the power and long-lasting influence of transformational coaching, it also could be beneficial to professionals in the fields of human resource development (HRD), workplace learning and performance (WLP), human performance enhancement (HPE), and, overall, in the domain of workforce education and development (WFED). This book will start by reviewing the background and presence of transformational coaching in businesses and organizations, along with the general concepts, perceptions, and understanding of coaching. _ is book will examine the uses of transformational coaching in management and leadership development, human resource development for talent development and retention, and for developing managerial coaching skills and competencies. Additionally, this book will review the presence and use of transformational coaching concepts, theories, and practices, including transformational learning for human resources (HR) and HRD professionals to influence a workforce’s attitude, behavior, and productivity. Features Builds individuals’ self-awareness, self-realization, and self-confidence Offers personal and professional development Teaches the concept of transformational learning and its use in transformational coaching Teaches rituals, skills, and strategies for individuals and teams to increase their productivity Offers an approach to building healthy and strong relationships with oneself and others Includes change management strategies for redirecting poor job performance Helps readers implement effective transformational coaching practices by offering many tools, such as forms, checklists, and worksheets




Transformational Professional Learning


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Emerging from an education world that sees professional learning as a tool to positively shape teaching practice in order to improve student learning, Transformational Professional Learning elucidates professional learning that is transformational for teachers, school leaders, and schools. Written from the unique ‘pracademic’ perspective of an author who is herself a practising teacher, school leader, and researcher, this book articulates the why and the what of professional learning. It acts as a bridge between research and practice by weaving scholarly literature together with the lived experience of the author and with the voices of those working in schools. It covers topics from conferences, coaching, and collaboration, to teacher standards and leadership of professional learning. This book questions the ways in which professional learning is often wielded in educational settings and shows where teachers, school leaders, system leaders, and researchers can best invest their time and resources in order to support and develop the individuals, teams, and cultures in schools. It will be of great interest to teachers, leaders within schools, staff responsible for professional learning in school contexts, professional learning consultants, professional learning providers, and education researchers.




Playing Big


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"At last. At last this very important book has been written... It will empower legions of women to step into their greatness.' ELIZABETH GILBERT, author of EAT, PRAY, LOVE 'One of the most important books in my life. If you want to achieve anything, or simply be less stressed, this book will help you do it. In it you will find your voice, your ability, your self-confidence and perhaps even your mission in life. Buy it. Pass it on.' SHIRLEY CONRAN The groundbreaking book that gives every woman the practical skills they need to begin PLAYING BIG. Five years ago, Tara Mohr began to see a pattern in her work as an expert in leadership: women with tremendous talent, ideas and aspiration were not recognising their own brilliance. They felt that they were playing small' in their lives and careers and wanted to play bigger', but didn't know how. And so Tara devised a step-by-step programme for playing big from the inside out: this book is the result. Many women are aware of the changes they need to make to be more successful, but they don't know how to become that more confident woman they'd like to be. Playing Big provides real, practical to




Emergent Strategy


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In the tradition of Octavia Butler, here is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want. Change is constant. The world, our bodies, and our minds are in a constant state of flux. They are a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, Emergent Strategy teaches us to map and assess the swirling structures and to read them as they happen, all the better to shape that which ultimately shapes us, personally and politically. A resolutely materialist spirituality based equally on science and science fiction: a wild feminist and afro-futurist ride! adrienne maree brown, co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.




To Recruit and Advance


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Although more women than men participate in higher education in the United States, the same is not true when it comes to pursuing careers in science and engineering. To Recruit and Advance: Women Students and Faculty in Science and Engineering identifies and discusses better practices for recruitment, retention, and promotion for women scientists and engineers in academia. Seeking to move beyond yet another catalog of challenges facing the advancement of women in academic science and engineering, this book describes actions actually taken by universities to improve the situation for women. Serving as a guide, it examines the following: Recruitment of female undergraduates and graduate students. Ways of reducing attrition in science and engineering degree programs in the early undergraduate years. Improving retention rates of women at critical transition pointsâ€"from undergraduate to graduate student, from graduate student to postdoc, from postdoc to first faculty position. Recruitment of women for tenure-track positions. Increasing the tenure rate for women faculty. Increasing the number of women in administrative positions. This guide offers numerous solutions that may be of use to other universities and colleges and will be an essential resource for anyone interested in improving the position of women students, faculty, deans, provosts, and presidents in science and engineering.




Make Space to Lead


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How can making space transform the way you work and live? Many high-achieving professionals believe that we must continually drive ourselves to work harder to gain the success we desire. But the reality is that we've trapped ourselves within this pattern of busyness and overwork. If you've ever felt burned out, overwhelmed, anxious and unsatisfied in your work life, it's imperative to make space to figure out what truly fulfills you. From her twenty-two years of experience in Silicon Valley, award-winning design leader and international speaker Tutti Taygerly shows readers how you can design your best professional and personal lives using the design process of research, ideation, and focused experiments. Make Space to Lead shares ideas, stories, and experiments from leaders at the top technology companies and startups. Insights include: -The Cult of Achievement: how to break the business cycle and why accomplishing more won't bring you the validation you seek. -It's okay to exhale. You need a break from the constant to-do list and milestones and make room for creativity and flow. Pausing and slowing down your thinking actually makes you stronger-How to develop self-awareness to see the recurring patterns in your work life. With this superpower, you can decide which patterns to keep and which ones to experiment with breaking. -As a surfer, Tutti shares how surfing as a metaphor balances the achievement and flow needed to be a leader in business and your own life. This book will be your hands-on guide to research, create experiments, and take action on what matters for your leadership.




Sticky Teaching and Learning


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During her work as a teacher trainer and revision expert, Caroline Bentley-Davies noticed that educators are clamouring for guidance on how to help their students remember the content covered in their lessons. In this book, Caroline answers that call by identifying the teaching techniques that contribute most effectively to long-term learning. She then sets out how to deliver content in such a way that it stays in pupils' memories for longer and leads to greater independence and better exam performance. Underpinned by a blend of research and theory, the tried-and-tested approaches are closely tied to classroom realities that will be familiar to all teachers. She delves into the role of planning as an important foundation for achieving long-term retention and improved recall on the part of students, and also shares guidance on how to secure maximum participation - so that there are no passengers sitting on the sidelines of the lesson. Caroline also shares a toolkit of 50 engaging, tried-and-tested strategies designed to help teachers ensure that their students remember what they teach them - and, throughout the book, she provides thinking points and actions to encourage teachers' reflections upon their own classroom practice. Suitable for all teachers and senior leaders looking to improve their pupils' learning and attainment.




The Magic of Dialogue


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In this groundbreaking work, famed social scientist and world-famous public opinion expert Daniel Yankelovich reinvents the ancient art of dialogue. Successful managers have always known how to make decisions and mobilize coworkers. But as our businesses continue to expand, conversations and discussions just aren't enough to bring people and their different agendas together anymore. Dialogue, when properly practiced, will align people with a shared vision, and help them realize their full potential as individuals and as a team. Drawing on decades of research and using real life examples, The Magic of Dialogue outlines specific strategies for maneuvering in a wide range of situations and teaches managers, leaders, business people, and other professionals how to succeed in the new global economy, where more players participate in decision-making than ever before.