Qualities of a Post-Heroic Leader

I read Disobedient Teaching by Welby Ings (and loved it). As I aspire to improve my leadership skills, I wrote some notes to myself from his book about the qualities of what he calls a 'Post-Heroic Leader.' This is the type of leader I aspire to be.

• Don’t criticise others. Instead help people come up with solutions themselves. Encourage people to CHOOSE to be part of the solution.
•  Be good at asking the right questions. Get people to think critically about a situation. It causes people to think about themselves honestly and take responsibility for their behaviour.
• Care about other people and take an interest in who they are as people.
• Humanise what opposes us. Don’t put people in a position where they feel they have opposed you. Empathise with another’s position and appreciate other people’s opinion even when you disagree.
• Believe in yourself and your potential and be true to who you are.
• Be open to change as it will happen with or without you.
• Develop critical situations where people feel they can offer their own ideas and solutions and challenge them.
• Relentlessly infect more empowering approaches so that they become viral.
• Grow other people. Invest in talent potentially greater than your own.
• Create a culture of trust. Trust people to co-create with their colleagues.
• Have a voice- story your successes and attribute them to others.

Please note that those bullet points are almost all Welby's words or my interpretation of them. I can not take credit for this thinking. I am simply posting it because it was the key learning I took from the book.

Links to The Code of Professional Responsibility:
1. Commitment to the teaching profession- 1.2, 1.5
4. Commitment to Society- 4.1

Links to professional standards:
2. Professional learning- Bullet points 3, 4, 5
3. Professional Relationships- Bullet points 1, 2, 3
4. Learning-Focused culture- Bullet points 5, 6
6. Teaching- Bullet point 2