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What Does Managing Up Actually Mean In Practice, And Why Do So Many Capable Managers Find It So Difficult?
At a recent conference, a topic came up that generated more conversation than almost anything else on the programme: managing up. Not performance management, not ...
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Why Education Leaders Stay Silent About Management Problems (And What It’s Costing You)
Picture the scene. A room of around 14 education leaders, a solicitor at the front running a session on absence management. Good content, useful ...
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What the Employment Rights Bill Means for How You Manage Your People
The proposed Employment Rights Bill has prompted plenty of discussion across every sector, not just education. For HR Directors, bursars and senior leaders, it ...
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How to Address Performance Without Escalation
Performance management carries a reputation that it does not deserve. For many leaders, the phrase immediately conjures images of confrontation, difficult meetings, raised emotions, ...
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Why Recruitment and Retention Start With How People Experience Leadership
Recruitment and retention are rarely talked about in the same breath as leadership behaviour. We tend to focus on processes instead: job adverts, interview ...
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Performance Management Without The Drama
Performance management remains one of the most persistent and emotionally charged challenges in leadership. But it is rarely the policy that causes the difficulty. It ...
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Guide: A People First Approach To Recruitment and Retention
Across the UK, schools are feeling the strain. Financial pressure, exacerbated by the introduction of VAT on independent school fees, has left many leaders making ...
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Webinar Replay: 6 Smart Leadership Habits
Many educational leaders find themselves under constant pressure to balance day-to-day demands with the bigger picture of building strong, motivated teams. It’s easy to get ...
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Webinar Replay: Managing Vs Leading
Many managers in school support functions are promoted based on their technical expertise, because they’re great at getting things done. But once in a leadership ...
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Webinar Replay: Building Resilient Leadership
Leading in the education sector has never been more challenging; budget constraints, staffing shortages, and high turnover are pushing school leaders and managers to their ...
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Appraisals: Key Strategies for Effective Employee Reviews
In the education sector, where the focus is typically on pupil outcomes, it’s easy to overlook the engine that drives those results: the educators and ...
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The Ultimate Guide To Handling Difficult Conversations
As a manager working in the education sector you will experience a variety of complex scenarios in your day to day work. Whether it’s a ...
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Webinar Replay: Breaking Bad News
Life can throw bad news at you at any given moment; as education leaders, we cannot avoid it. Whether you’re facing budget cuts, staffing changes, ...
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How To Achieve More With Less
When fiscal storms hit, the knee-jerk reaction is often a retreat: slash budgets, pare down, and batten down the hatches. We contend that the ...
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