Leading Teams with Confidence - a beginners guide - Term 1 2026

Leading Teams with Confidence - a beginners guide

Stepping into your first leadership role can feel exciting and overwhelming. You might be an experienced educator who now finds yourself leading a small team, wondering: How do I lead well, stay human, and still hold high expectations?

This course is designed especially for new and emerging leaders - who want to build confidence, clarity and a strong leadership identity from the very beginning.

Rather than a “sink or swim” approach, this series focuses on the foundations of leadership: purpose and direction, communicating with clarity, and creating a team culture that values pedagogy and putting children first. You’ll explore how to lead with warmth and authenticity while also providing clear direction, accountability and vision.

At its heart, this course supports new leaders to move beyond simply “being in charge” and instead lead with influence, creating the conditions where teams feel supported, challenged and have agency in their work alongside children.

This conversation series includes three sessions:

• Tuesday 10 February 2026, 12:30-1:30pm

  Finding your leadership identity

  Stepping into your leadership is not about being bossy – exploring leadership approaches

  
  

• Tuesday 10 March 2026, 12:30-1:30pm

  Team culture – leading people and practice  

  Teamwork, working with others potential, pedagogical responsibility

  
  

• Tuesday 7 April 2026, 12:30-1:30pm

  Honest conversations – hold high expectations for teaching and learning

  Holding professional standards means facing challenges and staying with difficult conversations. Building teams confidence and trust in critically reflective practice.

  
  

"Brave leadership demands people to be courageous, self-aware, and put more importance on getting things right than being right"

Brene Brown

TESTIMONIAL

"The Leading Teams course is a series of conversations around what it means to be someone who leads in vulnerable and courageous ways, encouraging people to work as a team and reflect upon their ways of working. Kelly is knowledgeable, inspiring and approachable."

--Deb Alexander