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St Catherine’s News Spring 2020
YOU’LL NEVER WALK ALONE
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It is no secret that I am a fanatic Liverpool Football Club fan. Step into my office and you are immediately immersed and surrounded by red banners, flags and my prized autographed sketch of Kenny Dalglish – Liverpool Club legend.
” If you are a sporting buff you will also know that Liverpool has just won the English Premier league for the first time in 30 years, following on from their domination last year raising the European Championship trophy. When Jurgen Klopp took over as manager in October 2015, Liverpool was a mediocre mid-table team who had just been defeated six to one by (to be relegated) Stoke City. This is equivalent to a 100-point thrashing by a bottom AFL team. So how did Jurgen turn it around? What lessons can we as a School learn from this success when we are faced with one of the most challenging periods in the School’s long history?
Confident. Simplicity. Energy. Relationships. Lead by example.
“That’s what leadership is – you have strong people around you with better knowledge than you; you don’t act like you know everything; and you’re ready to admit that you have no clue in a particular moment.” – JURGEN KLOPP
With the impact of COVID-19 in 2020, technology and those of us who lead it, manage it and use it were suddenly
thrust into the spotlight. Everything, and I mean everything suddenly had to be delivered through digital mediums across the vastness of the Internet to reach everyone learning and working from home. And as such, IT departments were expected to know it all. Reflecting upon the year so far, I am the first to admit I didn’t have all the answers. I knew I had to do more than just support learning from home. I wanted to be better than the rest. Prove that we are more technically advanced than other schools. Every School was boasting about their success of zooming classes but for me
