School Leadership Development
Strengths based Education and Leadership Development
Like you, At Full Strength is passionate about school leadership and school culture whether you are a school, pre-school, Early Learning Centre or University.
To be a great education organisation you need a great leadership team. Not only do they set the tone for the entire organisation's culture, but they have the power to make or break the experience for everyone within it.
Education organisations are some of the most ‘intense human systems’ that exist. As a 'school' leader you are not just expected to be an educational expert but a people ‘whisperer’ too.
How’s that going for you?
We’d love to help!
At Full Strength brings more than 30 years’ experience of working with teams within school settings.
We know that to be effective you need to understand the people you are working with. Any one size fits all approach doesn’t work.
Our first step is to listen, hear your story and understand your goals and challenges, to see if we can help.
If we can help, we draw on a wide range of tools and approaches that we can adapt to your needs.
Here are some of the ways we have assisted other schools:
Strengths-Based Leadership Team-Building
Your leadership team is not just made up of experts in particular roles, you are a team with a common purpose.
The best teams know one another and are deliberate in their impact. Understanding each other’s strengths is a powerful way to build relational trust, capacity and capability within a team.
At Full Strength uses the Gallup CliftonStrengths tool as the starting point for creating strong teams which gives your team a common language to understand one another and work with one another at a whole new level.
School Structure Review and Development
Structure is strategy.
The right structure is the bridge between school culture, vision mission and what happens on the ground every day.
When this is missing something else will be driving what is happening in your school on a day-to-day basis.
Your school has an orgainsational structure and a set of role descriptions but is this providing the ability to intentionally lead your school?
Linking those two elements with the strengths of your team provides a powerful foundation for achieving your school’s goals and vision, Its about having the right people in the right roles and the ability to continually grow and expand the roles in a strategic way going forward.
At Full Strength has a comprehensive method to map out all areas of your school and how each role within your school contributes to its operations, vision mission and culture, giving you the ability to have confidence in what structure will support your school best. Click on the contact us button we would love to hear all about your school.
School Executive Services
Are there times in your school leadership space where you need an extra executive member or support, but it makes no sense to create an extra position?
At Full Strength has offered support to school leadership teams by providing interim executive leadership support due to a position not being filled or the person being in that role being on leave. Or you need someone to undertake specific projects that are difficult to complete due to all the distractions that happen day to day within a school.
We have access to experienced school executives who have worked across many different school settings and who understand how to work within a context and to be of service. Think of it like having access to a ‘side executive’.
Strategic Planning
Strategic planning through the balanced scorecard method brings clarity and alignment, especially within educational organisations, by deeply integrating the vision, mission, and values into every goal and priority.
Our approach ensures that the strategic plan isn’t just a document but a true reflection of what the organisation stands for, presenting a clear, inspiring, and achievable roadmap. By weaving these core elements throughout the plan, stakeholders gain a sense of shared purpose and accountability, empowering the team to move forward in a way that visibly upholds the organisation’s foundational values and long-term vision.
