Management Mastery | A Conversation with Poppy Nobes

I'm really excited for this and two things kind of occurring to me.

One, I just love the idea of the dance floor and the balcony, and it's such a useful frame for me to kind of think we were even talking just before the call on where we were in our dance floors and balcony times, which is just great.

But I think the powerful thing about that, that you're doing, and that speaks to the idea of generating something in house is that These are not just like leaders who are on an MPQ developing a language with other people on an MPQ that may or may not be in their setting.

They're developing a language together as a community of schools and within the group, which makes it way more powerful, way more powerful because they've got a shared language.

So you're doing this double thing that I don't think you can really get from any external leadership program, really.

Yeah, I agree on that.

I just think the context is so important.

Absolutely.

And our trust is quite unique in that some trusts are geographically spread, but we are geographically spread.

Brighton all the way up to Darwin.

And so actually for our final workshop, we're all coming together in London to all meet each other in

person and to make sure that we see each

other.

Some of these people, yeah, will never have spoken with each other, even though they're doing really similar job roles, but in different areas of the country.

And so that's really powerful as well.

That idea of community and knowing there's someone out there to pick up the phone to in a different setting.

I think that's the benefit of being in an organisation like ours.

And we really need to encourage that.

We've definitely leveraged technology, lots of our sessions online, mixing people up, getting them talking.

I try and talk as little as possible, really throwing it over to them.

That's really important.

I think before COVID, before all of these tools really developed, I just don't know if I'd have been able to run a course like this across the country in such an impactful way.

But I can now and I feel like we're taking advantage of the technology evolving as well.

Do you know what I think is really cool about that as well is that I think there's been like a journey, you could probably plot it on a graph, I imagine of like, you know, technology use before COVID, you know, not so much in PD and then in COVID everything.

And then there was this drop off where people were like, I am sick.