What this tool is for

The Personal Leadership Behaviour Builder helps leaders identify a small, deliberate focus for their own leadership development.

Rather than trying to work on everything at once, it supports leaders to select a balanced focus that improves:

• reliability in day-to-day practice

• impact through others

• sustainability over time

The tool is designed to be used individually or as part of a coaching conversation. It supports reflection and clarity without prescribing what a leader must do.

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How the Builder works

The Builder guides leaders to select:

• one Core behaviour that improves consistency and stability

• one Enabling behaviour that helps others act more effectively

• one Sustaining behaviour that helps improvement last over time

These categories are not a hierarchy and do not suggest that some behaviours matter more than others. They describe how different behaviours function in practice.

The suggestions shown are shaped by:

• the leader’s role

• the challenge they are currently facing

They are prompts for judgment, not instructions. The final choice always sits with the leader.

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Core, Enabling, and Sustaining Behaviours

Core behaviours

Create reliability and consistency. They stabilise leadership practice and reduce unnecessary variation under pressure.

Enabling behaviours

Help others act with clarity and confidence. They reduce dependency and build capacity beyond the individual.

Sustaining behaviours

Protect improvement over time. They help ensure that progress does not fade once attention shifts.

Sustaining behaviours are often introduced through awareness and early habit formation before becoming areas of deliberate practice. The aim is focus, not overload.

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How this fits alongside school-wide behaviour focus

The Personal Leadership Behaviour Builder is different from a school or trust-wide leadership behaviour focus.

• School-wide focus sets shared expectations and priorities across an organisation.

• Personal behaviour focus supports individual leaders to develop deliberately within that context.

Both sit within the same Leadership Cycle and reinforce one another.

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What happens next

Once a focus is chosen, leaders are guided into the Leadership Cycle:

• Learn through the book, workbook, and behaviour pages

• Practise using toolkits and coaching prompts

• Plan and Lead through deliberate action and reflection

The Builder creates clarity. The cycle sustains growth.