Developing People - Digital - Programme

Build your team for the future and get the most from your people with a culture based on high performance, skills development, wellbeing and growth

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Module 1: Thursday 9 June 09:45 - 12:00 BST

Future proofing your staffing structure (09:45)

• Re-establish a culture of collaboration amongst new and longer serving members of staff
• Identify and nurture talent from within
• Encourage development through effective coaching
• Retain team talent, support growth and progression through a more strategic approach to succession planning

Val Andrew, School Business Leadership Consultant

Motivate and develop your high performance team (10:30)

Explore the importance of getting the very best from your teams and top tips and techniques to help leaders achieve this.   

• What are high-performance and high quality and why do they matter?
• Practical tips and techniques for engaging, motivating and developing teams
• Using communication to glue it all together
• Blockers, challengers, and the downright tricky – recognising whether it’s will, skill or something else that’s missing, and what you can do about it!

Nickii Messer, School Business Management and Leadership Development expert, All the geese

Watch this short video to hear more about Nickii's session

Identify skills gaps and target development for impact (11:15)

The old saying goes ‘if you do what you’ve always done you get what you’ve always got’.  Does your staff appraisal model empower or suppress?

• Consideration of what an appraisal model should, and shouldn’t, be
• Engaging staff at all levels at every step
• Designing a process that empowers staff whilst still holding them accountable
• Identifying and nurturing future talent
• Impact of change

Liz Anderson, CEO, Djanogly Learning Trust

Hear from Liz about this session.

Module 2: Thursday 16 June 09:45 - 12:15 BST

Beat burnout (09:45)

Build on a foundation of wellbeing and ensure resilience

• Understand the most common work-place triggers of burnout and how to tackle them.
• Why tackling burnout requires a wider focus than simply the work environment.
• How elite performers process and respond to set-backs using T.E.S.T.
• How to manage long term worries using The Worry Scale, so you remain proactive about tackling your worries, but without getting consumed by them.
• How to create rhythms and routines which energise in the toughest of times.

Andrew Pain, Speaker, Coach, Mentor

Find out more about Andrew's session in this 1 minute video.

Communicate effectively across your school team (10:45)

Understand the basics of DISC to build trusted relationships that support great communication and efficient working

Karen Dempster and Justin Robbins, Founders, Fit2Communicate

Learn more about Fit2Communicate with this short video

Create a diverse and inclusive workplace  (11:25)

• The rationale for creating a diverse and inclusive workplace
• Challenges and barriers
• Solutions and strategies for inclusive recruitment and retention
• Q&A

Shonagh Reid, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Consultant