Managers are a key factor in improving the system.If improvements are to be made, schools will have to be provided with good managerial teams, highlighting the importance of the process for accessing posts.There are multiple factors to take into account: the suitability of the model for accessing the desired managerial profile; the motivations and impetuses that lead teachers to take on a managerial post; the convenience of promoting continuity while enabling change; the candidates’ conceptions and previous ideas regarding models; degree of dependence or independence in relation to the suprasystem, self-perception as the educational community’s agents of participation and cohesion; training (type and goals that have to preside over it), drafting the Management Project,...Everything together gives rise to a complex reality, which is carried out in a singular way in each context.