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Senior leader performance management

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Training & development

12/04/2023

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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:

The purpose of performance management

The appraisal cycle

Who is involved and what their role is

The external adviser

Assessing performance

Setting objectives

Fully bespoke

This session can be tailored to the circumstances of your school or trust.

2 hour session

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