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Thank you to those of you who helped me decide the design for our new Heads Up bag, I really like it and I hope you do too 🙂
Finished working with one of my schools on a Journey to Outstanding programme today and they gave me this! So sweet of them! Such an amazing team to work with and I will miss them very much. It’s been an utter pleasure to work with you, thank you ladies 🙂
You remember the marmite adverts: Love it/Hate it. I’m definitely in the hate it camp! Well I think a vision should be a bit like marmite. People should love it or hate it. Well maybe not hate it, but not like it at least. The worst visions are those that no-one feels strongly about…the ones […]
This is a question I asked over 1724 school leaders before Christmas and here’s what I found out: The top 3 issues, making up 51% of responses, were: 22% – getting the conversation started 17% – managing the other person’s emotions 12% – the person not hearing the message If you’d like some help with […]
A quick blog to wish you a very happy new year! I don’t know about you but I always get excited at this time of year, a whole new year ahead of us..what will it hold Ok, I’m not forgetting that January can be a bit…grey…and that my jeans are a bit tighter than they were pre-Christmas! […]
Emma Webster, Employment Solicitor at Yesslaw share’s another common mistakes she sees made when tackling performance. Whenever employee clients come to see me with concerns about a performance management process, their comments are nearly always the same: “I just don’t understand what I’m doing wrong or what they want me to do to improve.” They […]
This anti-bullying week, so do take time to think about your staff team because many school leaders don’t recognise bullying when it’s right in front of them. Sadly I’ve come across more examples of bullying in schools than I would hope to and I’m not talking about the children but the adults. However the biggest […]
From the great people at officevibe: This infographic was crafted with love by Officevibe, the software to help companies improve employee engagement and boost employee morale.
Having conflict is stressful. Acutely.But not having conflict is also stressful. Chronically. However one of these has the opportunity to end the stress. Having the difficult conversation, tackling the issue, whilst stressful in itself, if done well can free you of the stress altogether. And what’s more is that it takes the stress off the […]