Key people strategies for Schools and Academy Trusts

School’s and Academies are essentially service providers, and the defining factor in providing a service is the People who provide this service. Whilst much of School life is driven and defined outside of individual School’s and Academies, the experience of working within a specific School or Academy is the responsibility of School Leaders.

It is not enough to simply react to legislative changes, and individual needs, to create an truly inspiring and engaging School or Academy both for employees, students and the wider community, School Leaders need to be confident in their vision and belief in the environment they are creating and the team they are building.

The starting point of which is a robust and meaningful People Strategy incorporating:

Your People Strategy is your organisational blueprint focused on your most important (and usually most costly) asset; your People. An effective People Strategy will define what is important to you, your school and the People within your School, which in turn will illustrate how you will provide the best service to your key stakeholders, yourselves, your students and the wider community.

How can HRConnect support you to create and deliver your People Strategy?

If you are a Premium Package Customer and haven’t already taken advantage of your 3 hour onsite strategic visit then please contact us to arrange this.

Our strategic specialist will provide advice and support tailored to your specific needs, providing insight and guidance to assist you in developing, assessing or monitoring your People Strategy whether this is a stand alone project or is incorporated into the People Element of your Improvement Plan. In addition to and alongside this annual visit, we can provide ad hoc and tailored strategic project support packages.

If you aren’t currently a Premium Package Customer and would like to find out more about the People Strategy services we can offer, please do contact us.

Employee engagement strategy and techniques

Employee engagement measures your people’s experience of working in your school or academy, everyone’s experience will be unique and we all have good and not so good days at work, and whilst these can fluctuate, our feeling of engagement is more linear.

Employee engagement identifies how emotionally invested people are in their work and how aligned they are to the organisational culture. Employee engagement shouldn’t be confused with employee happiness, which is often a relatively short term response to an isolated incident. Likewise employee satisfaction and even employee wellbeing which although important are not necessarily indicators of employee engagement.

An engaged employee is motivated, driven to succeed not just for themselves but for the team and the organisation around them. Engaged employees are aligned to the organisational culture and by the very nature of their engagement become advocates of the organisation.

We can work with you to identify where on the scale from engaged to actively disengaged your employees are and develop your employee engagement strategy to drive employee engagement.