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1I set aside short, regular time to reflect on how I led, and I act on what I notice.
2I can tell how a room is feeling before anyone says so, and I check my reading with the people involved.
3When a decision doesn't need an instant answer, I make space before I give one.
4I check AI output against its source before relying on it for anything that matters.
5I start things before every answer is in, when the decision can be reversed.
6The initiatives I launch get finished, or formally stopped, instead of being left to drift.
7I ask the people doing the work how it could be done better or quicker, and act on what they say.
8I give people stretch opportunities they wouldn't have given themselves, with support close at hand.
9I notice the children and adults who ask for nothing, as well as the ones who ask for a lot.
10We have deliberate checks so that nobody falls through the gaps unnoticed.
11People leave my meetings and conversations with more energy than they arrived with.
12I am actively developing people who could do my job one day.
13I have moved routine tasks to AI and decided in advance where the saved time goes.
14I use AI to explore several options before settling on one.
15My team has an agreed standard for checking AI-assisted work before it goes out.
16Good practice from one class, team or site reliably reaches the others.
Cover of MANX: A Leadership Thinking Model by Max Kelly
The book

MANX: A Leadership Thinking Model

Mastery, audacity, connection and the human multiplier.

These pages give you the outline. The book gives you the whole model. Every one of the twenty-eight components comes with the research behind it, three things to try on Monday morning, the ways it goes wrong when it’s overdone, and a question worth sitting with.

  • The full Feelforward move, and how the four facets check and strengthen each other
  • The MANX profile, a self-review across all twenty-eight components that you complete alongside a colleague
  • Guidance for using the model in leadership team meetings, appraisal, recruitment, induction and with governors

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