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What should your leadership vision look like?

What is your school’s vision? Is it memorable and does it inspire and drive your colleagues?
Sonia Gill explains the importance of a school’s vision and asks five key questions about yours

Do you know how to assess if your vision is in good shape to do the job? A powerful vision can inspire and galvanise a team, who will work smart and hard to do everything they can to achieve that vision. Here are five tests you can use to assess how effective your vision is.

If you are reaching to find your vision and cannot remember what it is, that is the biggest sign that your vision is not working. A great vision is memorable and sadly many visions are not.

A head and deputy were recently telling me how the vision was working in their school. “Great! What is it?” They paused and blushed. They couldn’t remember it.

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