The full report highlights key middle leader challenges across schools, offers reflection why those are so important, and contains prompts how senior leaders can support in these challenges.
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Key issues identified in the report...
#1 "Dealing with disengaged team members"
Middle Leader Challenge #2 - Ensure team members feel safe to speak up ...
Middle Leader Challenge #3 Encouraging initiative and have people take the lead ...
Middle Leader Challenge #4 Building Relationships Within Your Team ...
“The Management Kits journey for middle leaders has been a catalyst for both leadership and school development. Emphasizing personalized, practical, on-the-job learning, participants can enact meaningful change within their domains, while aligning with broader school priorities. The hybrid program design effectively fosters collaboration and peer-learning across campuses, divisions, and teams of the school.”
“Based on Management Kits diagnostics and using their tools, we ran a series of workshops in our team that have helped us to align expectations, handle difficult situations, and become a more effective leadership team overall.”
What more than 100+ leaders have worked on...
Key perspectives and example working topics
Our platform comprises more than 80 working topics enabling different leadership skills, e.g.:
How does my team contribute to strategy
Planning & managing change
Community communication & consultation
Diversity & inclusive leadership
Setting, prioritizing, and aligning team goals
Effective team meetings & communication
Individual resilience & wellbeing
Effective time management
Feedback & difficult conversations
Key elements of our leadership development journey
Interactive Platform
Comprehensive collection of working tools, including actionable guides enabling your development work.
Tools to Set Focus
Strong individual and 360° diagnostics to spark your reflection, and focus your work on most important priorities.
Powerful Collaboration
Hybrid series of work sessions to plan your work, engage with peers, and learn about key leadership topics.
1:1 Coaching
Connect when you need it... Experts available to discuss pressing questions and provide feedback on your questions
Key events throughout the year-long journey
Your time investment additional to what is on your desk will be on average about 1h/week. Exact session dates will be communicated in advance, typically cohorts offer choice between different time slots.
Launch Call Onboarding and first steps in the platform, learning about your journey so far, your situation and current priorities to set reflection focus.
Work Session (virtual and in-person, quarterly) Collaborative planning workshop building on your individual priorities, ongoing progress, as well as shared reflections & experiences. Refine your plan what you will do next and how.
Community Call (virtual, quarterly) Joint review of key leadership topics and in-depth focus on specific enablers of your work and best practice approaches; topics responsive to the group's feedback and interests .
1:1 Coaching Session (virtual, up to 3 sessions typically) A super important meeting next week, or a really difficult conversation coming up? Or you need feedback on your plan and action steps - you can connect with our experts when you need it most.
Community celebration Sharing stories of success and how we have dealt with challenges - most of all celebrating the positive impact made on student learning and experiental growth as leaders.
Our programme can be launched throughout the school year with flexibility. Cohorts typically start at 12 participants (open ended).
Our expert advisory board for K-12 schools
To make sure Management Kits co-create impact in education, we build on experts and advisors with combined experience in international education (K-12) of more than 75 years, including more than 40 years in senior leadership.
Dr. Nils Remmel
Co-Founder
Nils brings over 10 years of experience in international school leadership (incl. as Head of School), school accreditation, and as consultant experience in education and other industries.
Sarah brings over 10 years of experience in international school leadership (incl. as Senior Leader | Professional Development & Learning), school accreditation, and as consultant experience in education and other industries.
Olaf is an honorary professor and lecturer for organizational design at a leading European business school. He brings more than 20 years of consulting experience from leading firms.
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