As the first half-term break rolls around and you have a moment to catch your breath, what better time to pause and reflect on how the year has gone so far and, more importantly, how you want the rest of it to unfold.
As a school leader, your team looks to you not only for guidance through challenges but also as a model for how to manage setbacks. They pay attention to not just the speed of your recovery but also how you handle yourself during the process.
The problem with expectations is that they’re often a moving target. What starts as a reasonable goal can quickly spiral into something unmanageable. Those high expectations you hold for your own performance quickly have a way of backfiring and becoming unhelpful and even detrimental.