Running a Team Successfully

ABOUT THIS COURSE

This brand-new course offers the opportunity for high-quality professional development within a smaller group setting. The course is designed to be fully interactive: key ideas are introduced in the Keynote Sessions, and then worked through via discussion-based workshops, allowing you to think about how the learning from the day can be applied within your own context.

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BENEFITS OF ATTENDING

A great opportunity to reflect on your current practice and find innovative ways to upskill and refine your approaches. The interactive and discussion-based nature of the day also creates an ideal way to meet with people from other schools, network and share best practice.

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PROGRAMME

Keynote Session 1: What Does a Leader Look for from their Team and what does the Team Look for from their Leader?

10.00am

• Creating a framework for effective teamwork
• Getting the values right
• How to build a mutually supportive environment

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Break

11.00am

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Workshop 1: Practical Interventions to Improve Teamwork

11.20am 

• Effective use of Team Meetings
• Deciding, embedding, and living the values
• Supporting individual needs while maintaining fairness and consistency

 

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Lunch

12.30pm

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Keynote Session 2: What Happens when things go Wrong? How to help a Team Navigate Difficult Situations

1.00pm

• Turning criticism into an opportunity for growth
• Completing the cycle: Challenge-action-reflection-improvement
• The non-team player: How to help a colleague change their mindset

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Break

2.00pm

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Workshop 2: Getting Down to Specifics - Learning from Case Studies

2.20pm

• Case-study 1: The parental complaint
• Case-study 2: Colleague - colleague disagreement
• Case-study 3: Responding to feedback from senior leaders.

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Conclusions

• Distilling the day’s ideas: What offers the maximum impact.

3.30pm

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Depart

3.40pm

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