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How to Build a Sustainable Wellbeing Strategy for Headteachers
Headteacher wellbeing isn’t a luxury. It’s the foundation of effective school leadership, allowing you to think clearly, lead with confidence, and sustain your capacity through the realities of school leadership today.
Are You Setting the Right Example for Staff Wellbeing?
As a school leader, you're used to balancing a never-ending list of demands - responding to emails, handling behaviour, supporting staff, managing crises, attending meetings… and somehow still trying to focus on strategy and vision. In all of this, staff wellbeing is...
Energy Management: The Overlooked Key to School Leadership Wellbeing
In our leadership training sessions, one of the hardest challenges we set is deceptively simple: find just 10 minutes a day for yourself. At first, most participants laugh. “Of course I can find 10 minutes!” But in reality? Very few do. Between school duties, family...
Support Staff: The Hidden Pressure Point for School Leaders
When we talk about the pressures facing school leaders, we usually focus on budgets, inspections, curriculum demands, or safeguarding. But there’s one issue that often goes unspoken: the challenge of managing support staff. Support staff are vital to the smooth...
Why School Leaders Get Sick During the Holidays and How to Break the Cycle
As a school leader, you’re used to pushing through the term. Balancing responsibilities, firefighting problems, supporting your team, and keeping everything running. But then the holidays arrive, and instead of enjoying a well-earned break, you crash. Sound familiar?...