A truly bespoke service………
The following ‘off the shelf’’ tools have had significant positive impact in numerous schools over the last two years.
– School Leader Development Tool. More information available here.
– Self- evaluation Tool For Those Assisting Teaching and Enabling Learning. More information available here.
– School feedback on these tools can be found here.
The structure of these tools can now be used to develop bespoke improvement tools for businesses and organisations.
The Philosophy
Significant, sustained improvement can be brought about by developing staff.
Providing clarity with regards to what the business/organisation considers good practice to look like, empowers staff to reflect on their current practice and identify what they need to do to address any emerging gaps.
This ensures that accountability processes are more likely to ‘catch staff being good’ as opposed to ‘catching them out’.
The Process
Step One
Mike works with leaders to explore how staff are currently held to account and how the outcomes of such processes are used.
He teases out the extent of the clarity around ‘what good looks like’. For example, does the vison, mission and values of the organisation fit with the relevant professional standards and performance management criteria? In short, how clear is it what staff need to know and do? How should they behave to be considered as good?
Step Two
Mike next works with leaders, and where appropriate staff, to develop the structure of the bespoke tool.
These become the sections of the improvement tool.
Here are some examples:
Mike helps you determine what the tool for your organisation could look like.
Step Three
Mike now works with leaders and staff to develop the content of each section.
The emphasis is on clarity and exemplification.
Through workshop and editing exercises Mike facilitates the construction of a text that makes it clear what good looks like.
Step Four
Now the frameworks relevant to the organisation are integrated into the sections. This ensures that staff have in one place all the criteria that is used to hold them to account.
Frameworks can include things such as inspection schedules, performance management criteria, 360-degree assessments and professional standards.
Step Five
A digital tool is constructed for your organisation. The agreed structure is created and the developed content ‘dropped in’ to the tool.
Your tool facilitates self-evaluation. Staff simply compare their current performance with ‘what good looks like’ within your organisation. As they do so, the tool creates a pictorial representation of their performance. This facilitates the identification of strengths and developmental need.
Leaders within the organisation can access a dashboard that in addition to showing each staff member’s self-evaluation outcomes, also facilitates the identification of whole organisation strengths and developmental need. This has many uses such as enabling the sharing of good practice and the identification of developmental need and any professional learning/training required.
If you would like to know more about this bespoke service, please contact Mike:
