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Widening Horizons Programme
Professionalisation
of Governance
Les Walton July 2013
The Importance of Governance
Autonomy and Accountability
Responsible for? Responsible to?
The ‘Professional Debate’
Expert
• Proficient
• Skilled
• Trained
• Practised
Selected
Paid?
Contracted
Remunerated?
Appraised
Reimbursed?
Specialists
• An expert
• Specialised
Accountable
Rewarded?
Quality assured
Compensated?
Accredited
• Qualified
• Certified
• Licensed
Leader
Unpaid?
Competent
Voluntary?
Ethical
Ensure the Fundamentals of Effective
Governance are in Place
Committee room, designed 1901, in Halifax Town Hall
Develop Effective Governance
Organisational
Effectiveness
Framework
Policy
Development
Framework
Outcomes
Leadership
Leadership
climate and
Competencies
Emotional
Intelligence
Quality
Standards
and wider
Managerial
context
Progression
Performance
Climate
£
Finance
Collaborative effectiveness
Cross the Line and Know Reality
Learning Walks
Governor Visits
Governor Focus Visits
Settle the Skills and Representation
Debate
Create a Skills and Representative
Based Board
For example in North Shore Academy:
Portfolio holders:
1.
Les Walton (NET) Chair – governance and Leadership and remaining areas including non-teaching
staff
2.
Chris Roberts (NET) Vice Chair - finance, resources, pupil premium and performance
management and Science
3.
Lorna Mcclean (FE) behaviour and Attendance and SEN
4.
Sue Smith(Staff) – achievement and Humanities
5.
Caroline Reed (Primary) – teaching and learning and English
6.
John Copping ( Business) – planning and Mathematics
Community Representation
1.
John Franks (parent ) – parent voice and review procedures
2.
Barbara Inman (Councillor) – community voice and review procedures
3.
Professor Paul Keane ( University) – links with further and higher education and child protection
4.
Celia Weldon ( Health Service) – pupil voice
5.
Bill Jordon (Principal) - governance and leadership
6.
Lynda Brown (Local Authority) - partnerships
Do not Rely on self evaluation and
Ofsted
Bring in External Challenge and
Ethics and Support a Variety of Sources
Standards
NonCommittee
External
Audit
Local
Scrutiny
Achievement Partners
executives
Peer
Challenge
Observers
Seek Continuous Improvement
agreeing the agenda
values and principles
chair’s remarks
leadership styles
pre-briefings
the chair CX relationship
real time actioning
framework for
development
the responder
stakeholder briefings
the representative
network
Chair and Board
performance appraisal
external scrutiny
ministerial reviews
Maintain Constancy of Purpose within
a Constantly Changing Environment
‘The secret of success is
constancy of purpose’
Benjamin Disraeli
‘Create constancy of purpose for continual improvement
of product and service’ Edward Deming
The long-term future is important and should serve as the focus for changes. Target the future, become
more competitive, grow, and provide for the long term needs rather than short-term profits. The existence
of a long-term purpose brings with it the climate of stability and longevity and a climate within which
continuous improvement is realistic. Investment in process quality and product innovation both have their
rewards in the future. Clearly, long-term constancy of purpose is a top management output. Deming considers
this to be management’s number one priority and obligation. Deviations from the purpose must be dealt
with by appropriate action immediately.
Clear long-term aims lead to clear policies, clear
Maintain Constancy of Purpose during Transition
(LSC- YPLA – EFA) ( IEB- SIB )
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“Losers live in
the past.
Winners learn
from the past
and enjoy
working in the
present toward
the future.”
Denis Waitley
“The reason
people find it so
hard to be
happy is that
they always see
the past better
than it was, the
present worse
than it is, and
the future less
resolved than it
will be.”
Marcel Pagnol
“We are the product
of 4.5 billion years of
fortuitous, slow
biological evolution.
There is no reason to
think that the
evolutionary process
has stopped. Man is a
transitional animal.
He is not the climax of
creation.”
Carl Sagan (1934 1996)
Maintain Constancy of Purpose
through the Curriculum
Tackle the Hard Stuff – Catch the Rabbits of
Vocationalism and Academia
If you chase
two rabbits,
both will
escape.
The first rule
of focus is
this:
wherever you
are, be there
If you don't
know where you
are going, any
road will take
you there.
Most of all be Ethical
The end