How to effectively manage wellbeing, recruitment, and succession planning
Creating a strong people strategy is a significant and complex task. But it’s just the start. Once done, the priority is to create the conditions and culture to implement it successfully, assess its impact, and continuously improve people’s experience of working with the schools in your trust.
This course offers a series of deep dives into critical areas of trust HR practice: wellbeing and flexible working; employer branding; recruitment and; leadership succession planning.
Who is it for?
This course is for people in the following roles in trusts of all sizes:
- HR leads
- Directors of operations, finance and professional development
What you will gain
This course will give you:
- A safe and supportive environment to consider key elements of your current people strategy
- Insights into the latest research and evidence around staff retention and recruitment
- An overview of the employment landscape
Meet your seminar leader
Mandy Coalter, Founder, Talent Architects
In each seminar, Mandy Coalter will provide an expert reflection on the key principles and latest evidence and welcome a guest speaker to give a case study from their trust, with opportunities for you to share questions and experience. The emphasis throughout will be on the practical actions that turn strategy into effective practice and each seminar will conclude with a set of key takeaways for consideration in your trust team.
Seminar content
Seminar one: Creating the conditions for staff to thrive
- The importance of employee engagement in managing workload demands
- Creating a culture of positive wellbeing, including implementing flexible working in a challenging context
- Research, evidence, and practical tools to support your journey and measure impact
Seminar two: Your ‘employer brand’ and using effective comms to transform recruitment
- Using marketing and communication techniques to improve your approach to recruitment
- Creating an employer brand that helps build strong talent pipelines
- How to market your job roles to attract new recruits
Seminar three: Good work, wellbeing, and the role of HR
- The vital role of leaders in creating healthy school culture and improving staff retention
- Developing talent pipelines and succession planning for leaders
- Strategies you can implement to ensure a healthy pool of leaders in a competitive market
