Health and Wellbeing
Leaders: Modelling Positive Wellbeing Practice
Lead on staff wellbeing by showing it yourself, from leaving on time to asking "what can I do for you?" and meaning it.
- 34 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
Members
14 days free, then £70 a year or £7 a month.
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What you'll learn
- Model the wellbeing habits you want your staff to adopt
- Use a shared language of health, finances, work and connections
- Run brief, regular check-ins that build trust with staff
- Tell the difference between real support and enforced jolliness
- Protect staff time with delayed-send email and wellbeing days
About this course
A tray of bacon sandwiches in the staff room is lovely, but it won't keep people in post. What staff notice is whether their leaders go home at a reasonable hour, send emails at midnight, and take their own advice.
Culture is set by example. A serving primary headteacher shares what works in a small school where everything has to be simple and cost little. That means a shared language for wellbeing (health, finances, work and friendships) and short, regular check-ins built around "what can I do for you?". It also means delayed-send emails, and a wellbeing day each member of staff can cash in during the year. You'll also think about when well-meant socials turn into "enforced jolliness".
Most of all, it's a reminder to put your own oxygen mask on first, because your staff take their lead from you.
- For governors, mental health leads and 2 other roles. All phases.
Recording
- 35 min
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