everyone succeeds

54 leadership behaviours to transform your school

These 54 leadership behaviours have been identified and codified from hundreds of high-performing leaders. Understand them, practise them, and use them to transform your school.

Two books and website

Everyone Succeeds: 54 leadership behaviours to transform your school, and its companion Workbook are two books that show you how to understand, practise, and apply 54 proven leadership behaviours to transform your school. Together with the online tools and resources on this website (currently available free of charge), they form a complete framework for professional growth and lasting school improvement.

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Explore the Everyone Succeeds Leadership Framework

As someone who has written several books on school leadership, it is an absolute delight to be able to say that this book from Steve Margetts is quite simply on another level. Rigorously rooted in the fundamentals of excellent everyday practice, it manages to codify school leadership in a way I just haven’t seen before. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

Andy Buck
Founder of Leadership Matters and BASIC 4 Schools

The Everyone Succeeds Leadership Cycle: Diagnose → Learn → Lead

Diagnose

The Diagnose stage helps you understand your current leadership profile so you can focus on the actions that will make the greatest difference. You can complete the Self Diagnostic to reflect on your own practice, or use the 360 Diagnostic to gather balanced feedback from colleagues and build a clearer picture of your strengths.

Diagnose

Learn

The Learn stage helps you explore the 54 leadership behaviours that define exceptional school leadership. Using the Everyone Succeeds book, workbook, and online tools, you can study the habits of effective leaders and connect ideas with your own context. This stage builds the insight and understanding that underpin improvement across your school.

Learn

Lead

The Lead stage helps you turn insight into action. It gives you clear structures and tools to move from understanding to disciplined implementation, allowing you to set focused goals, build routines, and monitor progress. This stage strengthens direction and delivery so that improvement becomes deliberate, sustained, and aligned across your school.

Lead

Everyone Succeeds is designed for school leaders at every stage of their journey.

Early career teachers and aspiring leaders

Build clarity about the habits and behaviours that shape great leadership and begin developing them with confidence.

Middle leaders and heads of department

Strengthen the behaviours that improve curriculum leadership, team culture and everyday decision making.

Pastoral leaders, SENDCos and DSLs

Develop the behaviours that drive strong safeguarding, inclusion and pastoral culture while leading teams and supporting complex needs.

Senior leaders

Use the diagnostics, toolkits and planning frameworks to sharpen strategic focus and develop consistent leadership across the school.

Headteachers

Gain a coherent framework for leading culture, strategy and people, with tools you can use to drive improvement across your school.

Executive leaders

Apply a common language of leadership across multiple schools and support leaders to improve through clear structures and shared behaviours.

Bookshelf

The Bookshelf shares ideas from some of the most influential books on leadership, culture, and personal growth, each connected to the Everyone Succeeds framework. These are the latest additions to the Bookshelf.