Practical International LeadershipDevelopment

PILU /PILD “Practical International Leadership Development”

- Leaders need more skills

Practical, International Leadership Development (PILD)

During the last couple of decades, we have provided leadership training in different editions with various results. Since 2015 we have executed a new approach on how to train educational leaders.

The purpose of PILD is to develop leadership that provides leaders with efficacy and skills to achieve more equity and inclusiveness in their education systems.We do this to develop personal and professional competences in the leadership role.

PILD is an alternation between lectures, reflection, and practical exercises. You can participate as an individual or as a management team. We believe that the municipality gets the most benefit from participation in PILD when the municipal manager (or equivalent) and all the principals or directors in the municipality participate as a unified group.

Since 2015 we have collaborated with:

• Andy Hargreaves
• Dennis Shirley
• Louise Stoll
• Lee Elliot Major:
• Viviane Robinson
• Avis Glaze

Together with the researchers we provide practical exercises to develop leadership skills on different theme. The participants get access to direct dialogue and sparring with the researchers regarding the municipality's/county municipality's, early childhood centers or schools’ challenges and initiatives. Through 5 three-day sessions, over 1 ½ year, the participants receive training in the use of learning methodology and the theoretical basis for organizational development:

• Practical training on leadership skills, such as communication, body language and so on. We push the participants out of their comfort zone and into their learning zone with these exercises.
• Coaching: by using mixed groups we train them in coaching, where they take turn on presenting difficult issues in their leadership and help each other in finding adequate solutions.
• We nourish their creativity skills by using art, like paintings, photos, sculptures, theatre, and music.
• We use the immediate environment, indoor and outdoor, to explore the possibilities on different approaches and perspectives on leadership and humanity.

When we do this training, we make sure that the theoretical inputs and instructions are short enough to explore the possibilities of actions.

PILU have gatherings on the following headings:

Onboarding: Leadership for Lifelong Learning

The art of being a human being

Leading (for and with) wellbeing

Professional learning communities

Management and learning in and for the future

Questions should be addressed to:

Marlen Faannessen

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Telephone: +47 90834016