The Real Cost of Staff Absences in Schools
Book a demo Though it's hard to put a true 'value' against it, it reportedly costs UK schools and academies over £1bn every year. Its impacts are felt organisation-wide, ranging from…
How to Pinpoint Best Staff Performance
Book a demo Remember the proud feeling of getting a sticker from the dentist as a kid? Or more recently, the proud feeling of handing out results certificates to students?…
The 3 P’s of Performance
Book a demo Get a quote The key to any successful Performance Management framework is centred around helping your employees perform consistently against your organisation’s goals and values. It is…
School caretaker handover manual
Linkedin Twitter Envelope It's a conundrum! How to most effectively induct a new caretaker?There's no doubt it's a mammoth task. It takes a lot of your time preparing for it…
Contract management: The top 10 questions you should be asking
Book a demo Get a quote If you are starting at a new school or simply hoping to improve your current contract management practice, the following questions are a good…
Tips for new school business managers
Linkedin Twitter Envelope We asked a number of experienced school business managers to share their tips to anyone starting in a new role this September. Here's what they said, with…
How can you budget for reactive maintenance?
Linkedin Twitter Envelope The problems surrounding budgeting for reactive maintenance tend to revolve around the fact that reactive issues, by definition, are unplanned. Not only does this mean it's difficult…
Endangered species alert!
Linkedin Twitter Envelope Lots of interesting meetings this week and the same word keeps cropping up: technosaurs. That’s the word we've coined to describe those people living in the prehistoric…
Who does your job when you’re on the beach?
Linkedin Twitter Envelope As we all know, far too often at work, we rely on the information in a colleague's head (the office manager for example)Stationery buying, downloading software, train…
Ladders: What goes up must come down
Linkedin Twitter Envelope Now here's an interesting (if not slightly morbid) statistic: falls from heights, often ladder accidents, remain the UK's single biggest workplace killer. According to the HSE, in…