Reflections on leadership, governance and school operations
I started my website in 2018 full of motivation to write blogs about my SBL journey. I kept it up for a while and then it dwindled away. I now find I haven’t published a blog post in four years. Where has all that time gone? As usual, it is term seven that provides me …
I have this strange habit of wanting to fill every hour of my day with “something constructive”. If I pair that with the feeling of not wanting to “let people down” it can lead to a very full diary. Lately I have been reflecting more than usual. It comes naturally to me anyway, however, the …
Continue reading "Learning to manage my time – can I keep it up?!"
Monday 7 December 2020 is the 5 year anniversary of my first day as a School Business Manager. I cannot believe how fast the last 5 years has gone. For many years I had coveted the School Business Manager role from my position in the Education department in the Local Authority. I was confident I …
Someone recently asked me what I think are the most important things to focus on during the first 100 days in post as secondary school SBM. Luckily for me this was only a few months ago so quite fresh in my memory and easy to recall. Although I started my role in September 2019 I …
Continue reading "The top 6 things I did in my first 100 days as a Secondary SBL"
Lockdown being imposed on us back in March 2020 was the start of a new way of working. In my previous blog I talked about how I found that my view of lockdown went through a number of phases as I adjusted to the new challenges and ways of working. I'm in phase 4 now …
Continue reading "A myriad of emotions – time for a change?"
My trip to the US lasted for 5 days and what a memorable experience it turned out to be. After the first day I felt greatly at ease and relaxed amongst the new colleagues I'd met. The next four days that followed were filled with carefully selected education sessions such as a session on "a …
Continue reading "My American Experience – part 5: Lessons learned"
On 28th June I found out that I was a winner of ASBO International's Emerging Leaders Scholarship. The only problem was that the conference wasn't taking place until 24th October and so I had just under 4 months to distract my mind and stop myself bursting with excitement. Luckily, two weeks prior to receiving this …
Continue reading "My American Experience – part 2: Making preparations"
