A Climate of Trust and Respect!

I spent the early part pf this morning at William Booth Primary School in Nottingham at the first of two training days starting the new avademic year. Success, whether it is in a classroom with a class of children or a staffroom with a team of colleagues or in an authority with all aspects of children's services depends on creating a culture that empowers, enables and expects real excellence.
Success requires a passionate belief in what you are doing and a deep understanding of the difference you are making to the life chances of those in your care. We need to constantly ask ourselves what is going well, what is going badly and what are we going to learn and do as a result. The challenge as always in building wellbeing and creating happier and more successful classrooms, workplaces or authorities comes down to more socially skilled and engaged leaders and managers. We also need to build workplaces with more flexible working arrangements so that people can balance their home and work commitments and crucially it means providing people with more autonomy in their jobs and ultimately creating a climate of trust and respect.
Chris