Empowering your team and building their confidence
7 March 2025 @ 10:00 - 11:00
- Date: March 07, 2025
- Time: 10:00 – 11:00
- Cost: TIOB Member Rate – £90, Non-member Rate – £180
- Audience: Deputy Heads, Assistant Heads, Heads of boarding, Houseparents, Assistant houseparents
- Platform: Zoom (online) – webinar
Course Outline:
Boarding staff recruitment and retention have been problematic for some schools. In the current context, it is crucial that our teams feel confident and empowered so that they derive satisfaction from their roles. Our webinar will focus on key strategies to build trust and confidence within the boarding team and how to keep momentum going with professional development. This in turn will likely lead to higher retention rates and a better performing team.
Training topics include:
- Importance of culture
- Knowing your team as a whole and as individuals
- Individuals’ motivations and drivers
Learning outcomes:
- Develop a culture of trust and high performance
- Create teams where staff’s strengths are celebrated and nurture
- Encourage a ‘high-skill/high-will’ culture in your boarding team.
Speaker:
Helen Rose, Assistant Principal Boarding and Welfare
Helen is a dedicated leader with more than two decades of experience in the field of education. She has taken on leadership roles in independent, state, and specialised educational institutions, covering both academic and pastoral leadership responsibilities.
Helen’s commitment lies in ensuring that students have experiences that enable them to reach their full potential, and she extends this dedication to her approach in guiding and empowering her teams of staff. Her expertise spans change management in various sectors, including facilitating rapid improvements, overseeing school mergers, and adapting to changes brought about by the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Through these experiences, she has accumulated a wealth of knowledge, skills, and a proven track record in leading teams through challenging times.
Helen’s primary focus has evolved to guide individual staff members and teams in discovering and living their purposes within the organisational culture. This commitment has become a cornerstone of her leadership philosophy.
The purpose of this webinar is to provide insights into the transformative potential of empowering and engaging individuals and teams in the workplace.
