The school management team is the school‐level or middle‐level managers involved in the school management activities. The management quality of the school management team is the key to the orderly and orderly development of a school. Schools should strengthen the quality and self‐cultivation of cadres by establishing a new mechanism for the construction of management teams, and constantly improve the overall level of management teams to meet the needs of the development of higher education in the new historical period. Based on modern leadership concepts, this paper combs and constructs leadership from its connotation, functions and strategies, with a view to establishing a complete leadership system, which will provide some theoretical support for the reconstruction of school culture, the improvement of teachers' professional level and the healthy development of new curriculum reform.