Back to Basics! Leadership 101

Posted on | May 23, 2010 | No Comments

Recently I have been very vocal about my children leaving the Taaleem education group in the UAE.

The recent 6000 dirham hike in student fees at Uptown School was the straw that broke the camels back.

What Taaleem was,Beacon Education, and where it is going is no longer clear to me.

In 2005 I was the inaugural speaker at the then Beacon Education Convocation at the Dubai Convention Centre.

I met with the executive leadership of then Beacon and crafted a presentation that I felt was a light into the future and a bit of direction on how to get there.

The response was overwhelming and teachers,today, still refer to that presentation.

The 2005 Beacon Day Presentation by James Piecowye.

Truth be told the actual powerpoint is from Saatchi and Saatchi’s Kevin Roberts presentation about Lovemarks, and I have told him all about this ripoff and how good it has been for me!

In fact I have not used another powerpoint presentation since 2005! I use the Beacon Day presentation for just about everything.  But I have recently been trying Prezi.com and it is worth a look!

I bring up the Beacon Day presentation for 2 reasons.

First I would hope that the Taaleem administration would go back to this presentation and their own roots and ask if they have followed through on the lofty ambitions laid out in 2005 or caved to the easier route that they said they would not go.

Second, I believe that it is very useful to return to the beginning and remember why we started something, what we believed and where we wanted to go because too often we lose our core focus and without focus we are destined to wander well off track.

Remember focus and values are not just repeating nicely crafted sentences they are all about enactment and doing, something we all need to be reminded of on a regular basis.

DREAM-DO-BE  DARE!

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