Being Strategic About Staff Wellbeing

Why This Workshop Matters

Summary

Staff wellbeing is one of the most powerful levers for improving student outcomes, stabilising budgets, and strengthening your school's reputation. Many leaders are well intentioned but don't know where to start, while others are investing time, money, and energy into staff wellbeing but not seeing real results.

Too often, schools fall into the same three pitfalls:

• One-size-fits-all solutions that ignore context
• Top-down approaches that erode trust and fail to get at the real issues
• Quick fixes that have limited impact

What You'll Learn

Overview

This highly practical 2.5-hour workshop will show you exactly how to avoid the pitfalls and take a clear and highly effective path forward. You will learn how to take an approach that is:

• Contextualised for your school and rooted in the real issues.
• Strategic – focused on high impact goals that are aligned with your mission, vision, and improvement priorities.
• Collaborative – co-created with staff across all roles for maximum success and sustainability.

What You Will Gain

• Clarity on the value of staff wellbeing and its real drivers.
• Tools to avoid the three biggest pitfalls.
• Practical strategies to turn wellbeing into a lever for student success and school effectiveness.
• Tools you can take back and use immediately in your school.
• A clear sense of where to start — and what to stop.

Who is This For?

• Headteachers and Principals
• Deputy/Assistant/Vice Heads/Principals
• Trust Leaders
• Governors with responsibility for wellbeing or HR
• Any school leader ready to make staff wellbeing a driver of improvement.