Description
Book SynopsisLeading Change in the Early Years focuses on the type of leadership skill needed for leading the reform and change agendas that challenge the early years sector. Early years professionals are expected to implement a range of government initiatives, as well as professionally endorsed changes, aimed at raising the quality of early years provision. The ease and success with which such initiatives are implemented relies on the competent leadership of change, that is, knowledge, understanding and expertise in encouraging, supporting and working with everyone involved with implementing and sustaining change.
This resource helps to unpick the principles, processes and practice of effecting change and offers early years professionals a practical guide to the important elements relevant for meeting the political agenda for quality improvement and the professional challenge of effecting responsible change.
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Table of Contents
1. Change in early years provision
Understanding change
Theoretical perspectives of change
Dimensions of change
Process and models of change
The process of change as a cycle of learning
Factors that hinder and help the implementation of change 2. Authentic leadership and change
Quality improvement through competent leadership
The power of leadership presence
Leadership skills for making change happen
Leadership roles for addressing change initiatives
3. Leadership: The fuel driving quality improvement
Differentiating leadership from management
The contribution of leadership to effecting change
The impact of complexity on leading change for improvement
A model for leading complex change
4. Interpersonal relationships: the foundations for effecting change
The role of trust in developing professional relationships
Professional interpersonal relationships in early years settings
Key interpersonal skills for leading change
Issues affecting interpersonal relationships in early years settings
Key skills for interpersonal competence in early years settings
5. Interpersonal communication: the key to effecting change
Communicating and listening: essential skills for effecting change
Emotional intelligence and leading change
Roadblocks to effective communication in early years settings
Communicating the vision for change
6. From reactive opposition to proactive receptivity to change
Moving from shock to adjustment
Reducing stress in times of change
Common reactions to conflict about change
Strategies for channeling opposition into commitment
Encouraging proactive receptivity to change
7. Effecting change through collective endeavor
Benefits of collective commitment through change champions
The power of collaborative teams in the change process
8. Sustaining change through a culture of learning The role of learning in change
Early years settings as learning organizations
Building a culture of learning and thinking
Learning, leadership and change
Learning and the development of capacity for change leadership
9. Postscript: Aide memoire for leading change in the early years
References
Author index
Subject Index
