Product reviews for Leadership Dialogues

Leadership Dialogues has been an invaluable resource to me as a new school leader, leading significant change in my own school in the current changing educational context. Its instant appeal is the way in which leaders can dive right in to the relevant piece of work they want to develop or take a longer approach and cover several sections as part of ongoing CPD. It's easy to use. The CD-ROM provides all the additional resources to put either of these approaches immediately into action.

In my own school I have used it with great effect in both contexts. It proved extremely valuable for me in settling in as a leader of an already outstanding senior team, charting out a new course of direction. As a result, we were able to refocus on further improving teaching and learning and developing leadership capacity across the school. It worked similarly well in developing specific aspects of any colleague's performance. For example, I recently used the section 'Challenging Conversations' to enable a support staff leader to 'grasp the nettle' with a difficult member of staff.

The resource not only unveils sound insight from the wealth of experience provided by the authors, but backs this up with relevant research. It would be difficult to put a figure on how much a leadership team would need to spend on individual CPD of this calibre to gain this amount of impact; one thing I am sure of, it would be a lot more than the price of the book!