Unit 2: Leading change

This unit aims to expose the challenges of change and its implementation. It highlights the potential of real, perceived or imagined stress that implementing change can evoke.

There is an opportunity for enhanced understanding about responses to stress and the development of healthy coping strategies.

Participants will:

• appreciate the impact and influence the senior leadership team (SLT) have on staff performance
• understand that change can be experienced as a stressor or stimulator
• explore the main stressors in your school
• consider the possible staff perception that senior leaders are generators of stress for staff and how best to address this
• prepare for a whole-staff wellbeing audit.

• Review and SLT influence 
• Staff stressors 
• Appreciation obstacles 
• Perceptions of change 
• Impact and plenary