Naylor's Natter Podcast- an education podcast . Magic Weaving with Sir John Jones
There is a small and select band of educational professionals in the UK who have not only had their achievements recognised in the New Year’s Honours List, but who are also able to inspire others with their outstanding knowledge, passion and enthusiasm – Sir John Jones is one.
Knighted in 2003 for his services to education, Sir John worked most of his professional life in challenging schools across the North West of England, his last post being the head-teacher of a large secondary school in Merseyside.
His achievements and reputation for straight talking, leadership and creativity led him to be invited onto various organizations, panels and think tanks including the National College for School Leadership, the DfES’ Leadership Development Unit, the Teacher Development Agency’s National Remodelling Unit and visiting posts with both Manchester and Liverpool Universities.Principles
Sir John is:
I am committed to making a difference in the lives of individuals and in the sustained development of organisations by:
- Using fully my experience and knowledge.
- Helping people and organisations develop their vision for the future.
- Promoting collaboration within and between organisations.
- Teaching the power of positive goal-setting through hope and optimism.
- Enabling organisations to find their own solutions that work.
- Building capacity for sustainability.
- Providing on-going support from planning through to the realisation of the vision.
Types of work
Work in which John has been engaged:
- Presentations to groups of varying sizes and compositions, tailored specifically to the needs of the audience.
- Extensive follow-up work to ensure that any ideas are developed and embedded.
- Consultancy work on a full range of issues facing organisations, from short, technical consultancies to extended whole-organisation improvement processes.
- Research on all aspects of leadership and management in order to improve and enhance current practice.
- Support for action research projects.
- Commissioned bid-writing for Local Authorities.
- Chairing think tanks and leadership development groups
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