Our experienced consultants can run a bespoke leadership inset day in your school. Below you will find a list of our most enquired and booked inset days based around leadership in primary schools. To view other areas which our consultants have run inset days around or to find out more on our general inset/consultancy options click here.
Leadership and Management
We provide support for all areas of leadership and management linked to the core business of a school or academy; this includes support for leaders at all levels and stages of career.
- Governors
- Senior Leaders
- Middle Leaders
- Emerging Leaders
Our support can include ‘task focused’ input, e.g. analysing data, evaluation system; and leadership support linked more intrinsically to cultural and system development in your school.
As with all our consultancy, we will tailor input to suit your requirements.
It goes without saying that quality leadership will be at the heart of any successful and effective school or academy. The bullet points below outline some of the training we have offered to work with schools in order to ensure they embed quality leadership.
- Performance coaching for middle leaders
- Challenging others
- Leading your subject
- Effective whole school leadership
- Leadership for improved outcomes
- Leading learning and teaching
- Getting your head around data (for governors)
- Being outstanding
- Leading foundation stage
- New governor induction – a crash course.
Self-evaluation for subject leaders We often find that one of the most effective ways to move leadership on in a school is through bespoke 1:1 or small group coaching and mentoring.
We can easily put together a programme which will meet the needs of the individual/s within the context of your school.
Leadership Development
We recognise that whilst schools and academies invest heavily in training and development linked to subject knowledge and professional skills; the success of any organisation is linked to the quality of its people. At Focus, we know how important it is for people to be developed and challenged in order to deliver their best – we are committed to it with our own team.
Part of our core offer involves working with groups, teams and individuals on leadership and personal development. This can be in relation to a specific issue (e.g. a change process, conflict, communication etc.) or a process of investment in the person/people. As our consultants have strong track records in school leadership we are always able to contextualise work for colleagues in school.
All packages of work are tailored to your needs and can be a one-off event or a series of sessions. We have clear expectations about contracting to ensure that that there is an open dialogue with the client and expect this to be shared with participants before the session in order to ensure a truly transparent approach.
Please talk to use about what you require and we will let you know if we can help to meet your specific needs.
Working with Groups of Staff on Leadership and Management
Much of our work in terms of leadership and management is linked to developing and enhancing the leadership and management skills of emerging and developing leaders; either at whole-school, cluster or local authority level.
Please contact us if you have a specific needs and we will let you know whether we can help. Recent programmes have included:
- Bespoke programme for group of new headteachers based on needs analysis.
- Input for aspiring deputy headteachers with a specific focus on innovation and taking whole-school responsibility.
- Training and coaching for subject leaders to ensure a real impact on pupil progress.
- Induction training for new governors.
How to book
Call Linda Davies on 01457 821 811 or fill in the form here. If you need more information take a look at our consultancy page which will break down the what we can offer. Click here to view what we can do.
Take a look at our books about school leadership by clicking here.
