Produce a Detailed Account of Your Application of the Principles of Leadership to a Project Undertaken by Your Team:

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Produce a detailed account of your application of the principles of leadership to a project undertaken by your team: Our values are set from a young age. Our own, individual set of values is what creates our unique and idealistic vision of what we, as leaders, want for our organisation. The way we make sense of the world is based on those core beliefs. It affects the way we lead and we all lead differently. However we can all learn to lead effectively through experience. When I took up my post, the school had previously been inspected by HMI, and many points for improvement were highlighted, in particular, leadership. With a desire to turn a dusty, old library into a happy, positive learning space, a chance conversation with an associate from a large city law firm meant that my project vision could become a reality. It was difficult to imagine how a child could be inspired to read, given the library had not been updated for many years, and antiquated systems for promoting reading were stale and unexciting. The staff and children of my school would be furnished with a resource that could only help to inspire and enhance teaching and learning in literacy. I thought that everyone would be filled with enthusiasm. How wrong can one be? To understand the approaches I took to leadership in relation to this project, one has to first understand the dynamics and the culture which dominated the school at this time. Having been involved in several large-scale projects in the private sector before entering the teaching profession, I thought I was prepared for the challenges that this project would present. As I started on what was to become a very steep learning curve, I realised quickly that leading change in the public sector presented very different challenges to what I had previously encountered. With hindsight, I can now appreciate that many of the difficulties

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