Health and Wellbeing
Leading Your Staff Towards a Better Life-Work Balance
Cut the meetings and tasks nobody would miss, and start changing a staffroom culture that treats overwork as part of the job.
- 46 minutes
- Recorded webinar
- 1 CPD hour
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Decide what a realistic working week should look like for your staff
- Write a to-don't list of tasks and meetings you can drop
- Shorten meetings and plan meeting-free weeks into the school year
- Praise staff for looking after their wellbeing, not for overwork
- Help staff reconnect with their purpose and switch off at home
About this course
In most schools, long hours are simply assumed. Leaders joke that life-work balance isn't possible in education, and staff take the hint. That only changes when leaders decide what a reasonable working week looks like and act as if they mean it.
This session gives you practical places to start. Write a to-don't list of the tasks and meetings that make no difference to pupils, and see what happens when a regular meeting loses 10 minutes. Plan the year so there's a meeting-free 'duvet week' when everyone is running on empty, and start praising the habits you want to see rather than the late nights and early emails.
There's more to balance than workload, though. You'll also look at helping staff reconnect with why they came into education, and giving them permission to care deeply at school and switch off at home.
- For governors, middle leaders and senior leaders. All phases.
Recording
- 46 min
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