Senior leader performance management
At a glance
Ensuring that the senior leadership team is performing effectively and progressing the organisation’s strategy is a key function for every governing board. This session builds your understanding of how to achieve effective performance management in your school or trust, with a focus on the appraisal cycle and how to complete this successfully for your senior leader.
This session will cover:
This session can be tailored to the circumstances of your school or trust.
At a glance
This two-hour session will cover:
- The purpose of performance management
- The appraisal cycle
- Who is involved and what their role is
- The external adviser
- Assessing performance
- Setting objectives
- Monitoring, evaluating and evidence
- Links to pay progression
- Next steps
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Who is this suitable for?
The session is suitable for the following and will be contextualised for each setting:
- Chairs, governors and trustees with a responsibility for senior leader appraisal and performance management
- Academy committee members (local governing body) if this governance function is delegated to the academy committee
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What are the benefits?
Getting performance management and appraisal right is not easy. This session explores some of the common challenges and poor practice. It also demonstrates good practices and approaches so that participants are properly equipped to manage the appraisal process successfully for the benefit of the organisation and the senior leader and within regulatory and policy requirements.
By the end of the session, participants will understand how to set and measure performance against suitable objectives and how to have courageous conversations where performance is weak.
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How will you learn?
- This two-hour session can be delivered via face-to-face or online workshop
- It will be facilitated by a quality-assured NGA consultant with relevant governance and training expertise
- It will be interactive with a mixture of participant activities and facilitator-led explanation and discussion
- It will be supported with session materials including a resource toolkit and suggested activities to help with next steps
Enquire now to book this for your board(s)
Book your training
If you would like to book the session or find out more then make an enquiry.
This training is designed for a group of participants at a school, trust or other organisation.
It is also suitable for a group of schools to share.
