When you’re tired, you lose your judgement before your work ethic. Find the one task that decides next year’s improvement - the one nobody is chasing you for.

The outcome data comes late; the early signals come sooner. How school leaders can spot “rumble strips” and course correct towards the impact they’re after.

Why you need to run a pre-mortem on your big project

Collective reflection, evaluation & learning that can inform the next stage of your work.

Learn how to work in the right zone of improvement - challenged but not overloaded.

Feedback lands when it’s specific. Learn a simple four-step structure to prepare and deliver hard conversations so they don’t get avoided or watered down.

Discover the power of a ‘Don’t Do’ list. Learn how saying no with clarity and confidence can transform your productivity and leadership.

Episode Summary: In this episode of Where’s Your Head At?, hosts Richard Henry and James Macdonald speak with researcher, author, and speaker Dr. Simon Breakspear about translating complex…

EP 20

"I care, I'm incredibly capable, so I strategically subtract." Simon Breakspear What if greater impact starts with less, not more? School staff are constantly being asked to do more. More initiatives. More meetings. More programs. More expectations. Yet many big-hearted educators are already working well beyond their capacity.

Leaders often mistakenly believe they can do it all. However, every ‘yes’ we commit to implicitly means saying ‘no’ to something else.

Feedback lands when it’s specific. Learn a simple four-step structure to prepare and deliver hard conversations so they don’t get avoided or watered down.

Resistance to change is often status quo bias at work. Once you understand it, you stop taking pushback personally and start responding more skilfully.

In this episode, we sit down with Dr Simon Breakspear, one of the most influential voices in educational improvement, to explore how his thinking has evolved across his time working with MACS…