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OUR CURRENT COURSE PROGRAMME
We advise senior teams, governors and local authorities wishing to be
well-prepared for the future to address the following key issues in the
2007-08 school year. Although we still run a few courses in conference
centres, most of our support programmes now take place at venues provided
by school networks and LA’s; this enables them to be specifically
tailored to local needs.
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT 2007 – Get Your Objectives
Written In A Day – senior team and reviewer briefing; production
of personalised professional feedback and objective planning packs for
each teacher using our specially prepared templates; packs distributed
at a jointly run staff meeting; reviewers meet teachers to agree and action
plan objectives with tutorial support available; see
a more detailed sample programme.
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT 2008 – Develop Clear Criteria
For Threshold, UPS 2 and UPS3 In Your School; Establish Agreed Criteria
For Giving Feedback on Middle and Senior Leadership Performance; Use This
To Inform The Setting of Leadership & Management Objectives; see
a more detailed sample programme.
DEVELOP A SENIOR LEADERSHIP RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION POLICY
FOCUS ON SUCCESSION PLANNING
UNDERSTAND THE PAY & CONDITIONS FLEXIBILITIES ALREADY AVAILABLE TO
GOVERNORS
Few governing bodies recognise just how difficult it I likely to be to
recruit high quality senior leaders when existing staff retire or move
on. 60% of headteachers and over 40% of deputies and assistant heads are
now aged over 50 and can take an actuarially-reduced pension within the
next five years. 34% could retire tomorrow if they chose – and the
2007 changes to the pension regulations, when fully understood, will lead
to a rapid acceleration in requests to governors for phased retirement
and co-headship arrangements. Even on the most optimistic assumptions,
there will need to be a 29% increase in the number of senior leaders recruited
between 2007 and 2009 – but 43% of deputies and 70% of middle leaders
currently do not aspire to headship.
Tackling this challenge requires a co-ordinated and broad-based strategy
operating at LA, school networks and individual school level. Head Support
has unrivalled practical experience. At LA level, we have already run
strategy development conferences in several authorities and you can view
a sample full day programme. For schools and school networks, we offer
a succession
planning course which sets out the issues, illustrates the pension
changes and provides an opportunity to consider successful strategies
already adopted around the country. Our Prepare
For Your 2008 Staffing Structure Review Course enables us to answer
heads' questions about the legality or otherwise of the structures they'd
really like. Getting the pay and conditions of senior leaders right is
an important part of the overall package; many governing bodies are unaware
of the considerable pay flexibilities they already have and, in line with
the recommendations both of the STRB and The Price Waterhouse Coopers
Report on School Leadership, we have developed a course
for governors on pay and conditions flexibilities.
For senior leaders planning to prolong their involvement with school by
reducing their working week, our Phased
Retirement course sets out the much wider range of pensions options
available and explains how it is possible to become involved in the wide
variety of other work that is available on “days off” from
school. This course can be brought to school networks as a one day event,
but it also runs twice a year as a 24 hour residential course at the magnificent
Hassop Hall Country House Hotel near Bakewell in Derbyshire.
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