Leadership and Team Dynamics

Lisbon
Session 1: 24 - 30 June 2025
Session 2: 10 - 16 July 2025

Online
2 - 8 July 2025

Hear what our participants have to say about the course: Tim Belfield, Lisa Nnadozie, Renee Hamer, Mihoko Chida

Listen to Lee Fertig answer the question “Why should you take this course?”

A school cannot be effective without strong leaders. This course offers participants the opportunity to explore the essential leadership skills and team processes required for the international school.

What will we learn?

How do international school leaders:

  • Assess their personal leadership strengths, growth areas and approaches to better shape their leadership practice?

  • Apply situational leadership and other prominent leadership models and know when they are needed?

  • Lead and manage crises (leadership and management) in the international school context?

  • Design and implement communication processes that reflect the critical role these processes have on effective leadership?

  • Inspire trust, motivation, and accountability in their teams?

  • Lead change and improvement processes, including mitigating and managing conflict?

  • Apply principles of DEIJB across all facets of leadership and team teaming?

  • Build high functioning high impact teams throughout the school?

  • Apply the extensive current research about team dynamics for all types of school teams?

  • Utilize decision-making models that lead to decisions that consistently and positively impact student learning?

  • Apply all leadership and teaming skills in a variety of learning environments, with consideration of the rapid development of artificial intelligence and

  • Adapt their leadership style to foster collaboration and communication across cultural and linguistic barriers?

The curriculum for all PTC courses is rooted in the ‘Standards of Practice for International School Principals’ and created using our design principles.