Every growing organisation faces the same challenge. As it becomes larger and more complex, it invests in structures. Clearer governance. Clearer accountability. Clearer processes. Clearer expectations. It has to. Without them, organisations become inconsistent, difficult to navigate and increasingly dependent on individual personalities. As organisations grow, coherence becomes more important, not less. For a multi-academyContinue reading “The View Looks Different From Here”
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What your staff survey is not telling you
Most multi-academy trusts I work with can share their values, their strategic plan, and their leadership structure. What is sometimes more difficult is understanding what it actually feels like to work there. And that is the part that determines almost everything else: whether talented people stay, whether honest conversations happen, whether the trust feels likeContinue reading “What your staff survey is not telling you”
Inclusion is not a Policy, it is an Experience.
A story about a young person, a camping trip, and what inclusion actually looks like. On equity, opportunity, and the relational integrity that holds it all together. When Alex was in primary school, he found it hard to belong. He had been bullied by teachers, struggled to make friends, and outside of football at breakContinue reading “Inclusion is not a Policy, it is an Experience.”
Is your leadership team a team, or a group of individuals operating in parallel?
This piece is for MAT CEOs and the senior leadership teams running multi-academy trusts, though much of it applies to any senior team trying to function as more than the sum of its members. Leadership teams in schools and trusts are under enormous pressure. And one of the things that doesn’t get talked about enough isContinue reading “Is your leadership team a team, or a group of individuals operating in parallel?”