POWER HOURS
2026 POWER HOURS: HIGH-IMPACT LEADERSHIP IN 60 MINUTES
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Redesigned. Researched. Remarkable.
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At Tailored Leadership Solutions, we believe that professional growth shouldn't be a logistical burden. We have tirelessly redesigned and reshaped our 2026 Power Hour Series in direct response to your feedback. These sessions are "pure gold"—precision-engineered to deliver systemic impact and "done and dusted" within a focused 60-minute window.
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Unrivaled Flexibility for Busy Systems
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Our Power Hours are built to fit the rhythm of your school. Whether integrated into a full-day leadership retreat or delivered as a standalone immersion before, during, or after school, these sessions provide the high-leverage learning your team needs without the downtime.
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The Digital Advantage: Connectivity Without the Cost
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Presented exclusively via a sophisticated virtual platform, we actually encourage participants to log in from their own locations. This isn't just a massive convenience—it’s a strategic choice. By engaging in individual virtual dialogue, we foster deeper personal reflection and more inclusive group discussions.
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The Result
A superior learning experience with a massive reduction in travel and TRS (Teacher Relief Scheme) costs for your school.
Global Intelligence, Local Impact
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The topics for 2026 haven't been chosen at random. We have researched, trialed, and developed these sessions based on the real-world challenges identified by school leaders across the globe.
We’ve done the heavy lifting so you can focus on the breakthrough.
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These POWER HOURS are designed for the busy professional.
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The sessions are short, sharp, and powerful.
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All sessions will come with pre, during and post reading and tools.
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We are that confident in our service - you will be invoiced after your session has been delivered - 100% satisfaction guaranteed - if not 100% happy - don't pay the invoice - that is our guarantee to you.
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Check out the incredible feedback on these sessions in our testimonials.
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These hours pack a punch - they are interactive and enable you to employ the strategies immediately in your context. ​​
All Power Hour participants will receive a certificate of completion certifying one full hour of professional learning.
Tailored service – if you would like a power hour session run for your Team, School, District, Region or System, you just need to ask.
All Power Hours are $150 per participant -
a reduced rate can be negotiated for individuals schools, DISTRICTS or systems THAT HAVE MULTIPLE PARTICIPANTS.
Here are the current power hours AVAILABLE
Power Hour – INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP -
The Highest Leverage Act—Instructional Leadership
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The noise of the principalship often tries to confine us to compliance, budgets, and operational logistics. But you know the ultimate truth: the highest leverage act of any school leader is not management—it is Instructional Leadership.
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This POWER HOUR is designed to sharpen your focus and equip you with the tools necessary to move from observer to Chief Instructional Coach. We are here to intentionally reclaim the most vital aspect of your role: creating a predictable, powerful culture where excellent teaching is the non-negotiable standard.
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Your greatest influence is not in the staff meeting, but in the purposeful five-minute conversations you have with a teacher about their practice, and in the clarity you provide to make their curriculum stronger. When you prioritize instruction, you don't just improve outcomes; you directly fuel teacher efficacy and student belief.
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Prepare to leave this hour with a strategic blueprint for translating your vision into classroom reality, ensuring that every student experiences the profound impact of a unified, high-expectations learning environment.
Power Hour – DISCOVERING YOUR WHY? -
Beyond the Bell—Reclaiming Your Purpose
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In the rhythm of the school year, it's easy to mistake exhaustion for commitment. Day after day, the demands of the bell schedule, the curriculum goals, and the immediate needs of students can crowd out the most essential question: Why are you here?
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This POWER HOUR is dedicated to you—the heart and soul of our school. We’re not here to add another task to your plate; we’re here to give you back your most vital asset: your professional purpose.
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When you reconnect with your "Why," you don't just endure the challenges; you transform them. Your purpose is your greatest source of energy, resilience, and joy. It is the compass that guides your most difficult decisions and ensures that every ounce of effort you invest is meaningful.
Prepare to move past the immediate demands and rediscover the deep, inspiring reason that brought you to this incredible profession. Let’s make the work feel less like a mandate and more like a mission.
Power Hour – FEEDBACK - The Engine of Growth -
Mastering High-Impact Feedback
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In a school dedicated to excellence, feedback is the currency of growth. It is the most direct, potent tool you possess for driving instructional improvement and building the next generation of leaders. Yet, we all know the truth: giving truly specific, challenging, and constructive feedback requires immense courage and emotional intelligence.
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This POWER HOUR is dedicated to mastering this single, high-leverage skill. We will move beyond the superficial praise and the vague critique to develop a strategic framework for conversations that close the gap between expectation and reality.
When you master feedback, you transform your role from a supervisor to a Chief Instructional Coach.
You stop walking past the standard you don't endorse, and you actively install a culture where trust is built not through avoiding difficult conversations, but through having them consistently and skillfully.
Prepare to gain the clarity and practical tools required to make every single interaction a catalyst for collective and individual success.
Power Hour – BUSTING SILOS -
The Unseen Walls and the Power of Coherence
The noise of a school leadership team often tries to convince you that your mission is just to manage your own people and your own budget. But you know the truth: the greatest barrier to school-wide excellence is the silo. That invisible wall that divides departments, hoards vital data, and forces teachers to work in isolation.
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This POWER HOUR is dedicated to shifting your focus from managing your division to mastering systemic influence. Silos are where friction lives and where growth dies. By defining a clear "Through Line" and engineering strategic collaborations, we will equip you with the courage and the tools to dismantle the walls.
You will learn to transform isolated efforts into a unified force of collective efficacy, ensuring that every single staff member and every resource is aligned toward the same powerful.
Power Hour – HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS - Building a High-Performing Team
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Every school has talent, but few achieve truly high performance. The difference lies not in the potential of individuals, but in the precision and resilience of the collective.
This POWER HOUR is dedicated to the ultimate leadership challenge: shifting your team from a group of talented individuals who report to you, into a unified, self-regulating force where collective efficacy is the driving ethos.
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We will move past simplistic motivational techniques and dive into the strategic architecture of high performance. This means defining the non-negotiable standards, establishing the systems for shared accountability, and building the profound trust required for leaders to challenge and support each other effectively. You are not here to simply manage a team; you are here to design a system that maximizes every ounce of talent and sustains excellence long after you've stepped away.
Let's build a team that thrives on complexity and defines its success together.
Power Hour - ASPIRANTS - The Blueprint for Influence—Mastering Middle Leadership
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This POWER HOUR is dedicated to you: the essential, high-leverage leaders who drive the daily reality of a school. Middle leadership is the most pivotal and often the most complex role, demanding that you be both a master teacher and a strategic manager.
The AITSL Middle Leaders Standards are not just a checklist; they are your blueprint for professional influence. They define the exact competencies required to transform ambition into action.
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We are here to move beyond the demands of your current workload and focus on the architecture of your future impact. We will strategically unpack these standards—from cultivating the right Enabling Dispositions to Coordinating High Impact Teaching and Learning—ensuring you leave with a clear, focused path. Your ability to lead improvement, support professional growth, and anchor our school’s ethical culture determines our collective success. Let's sharpen your strategic focus and equip you to lead with confidence and mastery.
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This hour is the most powerful way to set the foundation for any aspirant program as well as establish the blueprint for any middle leader’s success.
Power Hour – OPERATIONAL TO STRATEGIC -
Reclaiming Your Influence (For Middle Leaders)
Middle leadership is the engine room of the school, but it’s often a pressure cooker where the urgent always screams louder than the important. You are constantly caught between administrative demands and the immediate needs of your teachers and students. Day after day, the avalanche of logistics and low-level crises traps you in operational management, forcing you to be reactive firefighters instead of visionary architects.
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This POWER HOUR is your dedicated hour to break that cycle. We are here to reclaim your most valuable asset: your executive thinking time. Shifting from operational to strategic leadership is not about working harder; it’s about making a profound choice—to move away from handling the noise and ruthlessly prioritize the signal that defines your instructional legacy.
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We will equip you with the tools to delegate with confidence, identify the strategic through lines that matter most, and transform your focus from immediate survival to sustained, systemic mastery. Your highest contribution to your school's future is not the tasks you complete, but the instructional culture you anchor. Let's reclaim your influence and chart a course toward high-leverage leadership.
Power Hour – THE STANDARD YOU WALK PAST IS THE STANDARD YOU
ENDORSE - The Courage of Consistency
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In the demanding arena of educational leadership, our true culture is not defined by the inspirational posters on the walls or the policies in the binder. It is defined by what we permit.
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The core truth of accountability is simple, yet profoundly challenging: The standard you walk past is the standard you endorse.
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This POWER HOUR is dedicated to building the courage and clarity required to eliminate the gap between the high expectations you set and the reality you tolerate. We are here to dismantle the subtle permissions we unintentionally give for mediocrity, inconsistency, or misalignment.
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By the end of this hour, you will gain a strategic blueprint for becoming the uncompromising guardian of your school’s non-negotiables. You will leave with actionable tools to anchor every staff member in a culture where excellence is the minimum requirement, ensuring that your visibility and consistency become the single most powerful drivers of positive change.
Power Hour – EMPOWERED LEADERSHIP - The Courage to Empower
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Every leader carries the immense weight of the school's mission. You are not just responsible for performance; you are responsible for the potential of every student and every staff member. Yet, the greatest threat to a visionary principal is the "Super-Principal Syndrome"—the belief that you must be the centre of every decision, the solver of every problem. That path leads to exhaustion, not excellence.
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This POWER HOUR is about shifting your focus from managing tasks to mastering influence. Empowered leadership is the strategic act of purposefully building capacity in others, granting them the autonomy, trust, and skills necessary to drive success across the entire system. When you move away from holding the mic and start working the sound desk, your influence doesn't diminish—it compounds exponentially.
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We are here to develop the courage and clarity needed to delegate not just duties, but genuine ownership. By the end of hour, you will have a clear blueprint for transforming your middle leaders into highly capable partners, freeing your own energy to focus on the high-leverage strategy that truly defines your legacy. Your school's future rests not just on what you do, but on the magnificent capacity you unlock in others.
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Power Hour – THE COACHING LEADER
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Shifting from Management to Mastery in Coaching Leadership
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The "Super-Principal Syndrome" is the greatest threat to your legacy. This high-impact Power Hour is designed for visionary leaders ready to move from holding the mic to working the sound desk—multiplying their influence across the entire system.
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Every leader carries the immense weight of the school's mission. You are not just responsible for performance; you are responsible for the potential of every student and every staff member. Yet, the greatest threat to a visionary principal is the "Super-Principal Syndrome"—the belief that you must be the centre of every decision, the solver of every problem. That path leads to exhaustion, not excellence.
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This POWER HOUR is about shifting your focus from managing tasks to mastering influence. Empowered leadership is the strategic act of purposefully building capacity in others, granting them the autonomy, trust, and skills necessary to drive success across the entire system. When you move away from holding the mic and start working the sound desk, your influence doesn't diminish—it compounds exponentially.
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Building Collective Capacity: The mission of a school is too heavy for one set of shoulders. Coaching is the strategic act of building capacity in staff, granting them the autonomy and trust needed to drive success. This transforms staff members from task-followers into "highly capable partners."
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Securing a Lasting Legacy: By delegating genuine ownership (not just duties), a leader frees up their own energy to focus on the high-leverage strategies that truly define their legacy. The school's future is secured not by what the leader does daily, but by the "magnificent capacity" they unlock in others.
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In short, a coaching approach is the only way to move a school from "pockets of brilliance" to a sustainable, high-performing system.
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Power Hour – ASPIRING MIDDLE LEADERS
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Aligning Aspirant Practice with the AITSL Middle Leaders Standards
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The transition from expert teacher to impactful middle leader is the most critical shift in a professional's career.
This POWER HOUR is a high-leverage immersion designed for aspirant leaders ready to bridge the gap between classroom excellence and systemic influence. We move beyond the mechanics of administration to cultivate the Enabling Dispositions and Knowledge required to lead with strategic intent.
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Participants will explore a tactical roadmap for Coordinating High-Impact Teaching and Learning, shifting their focus from individual practice to Leading Improvement across entire teams. This session places cultural leadership at the heart of the role, deepening Understanding and Respect for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to ensure inclusivity is woven into the fabric of every initiative.
By mastering the art of Managing Effectively—balancing ethical resource oversight with the human-centric art of coaching—aspirants will move from "doing" to "architecting." You will leave with a clear blueprint for navigating the complexities of middle leadership, ready to unlock the potential of your colleagues and maximize outcomes for every student in your care.
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