Tools

All our tools in one place

  • The Origins of Merechats
    Listen to the story of Merechats, and the credentials and experience of Dot Struthers who set up this learning community. Meerkats, merechats, teleclasses, blogs, forums, networking, learning and development, British Airways, HR consultant, coaching, life skills programs.
  • Keeping your Cool
    Most of us have experienced that feeling of losing control of our emotions and then doing or saying something that we later regret emotions, control, stress, pressure, release, relax, talk, calm, exercise, meditation, teachers, heads
  • Understanding NLP
    Do you have problems connecting with people who are different from you because you don’t know how to adapt your style of communication? Styles of communication, problems connecting with people, NLP, senses, visual, auditory, kineasthetic, building rapport, clear outcomes, reading body language
  • Motivating Others
    We all have different management styles which affects the way we work with people. management style, motivation, appreciation, teachers, lecturers, heads, deputies, involvement, solving problems, personality, helpful, competitive, flexible, practical
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  • How to Solve Problems
    Do you ever feel stuck and unsure of what to do because you lack inspiration and don’t how to be creative? Feeling stuck, solutions, ways of being creative, asking questions, brainstorming, focus, commitment, generating ideas, dedication and interest, options, influencing factors, root cause, goals, analyse, inspiration.
  • Mastering Motivation
    Motivation is an internal state of arousal that precedes a person’s behaviour. When we are motivated, our energy levels go up. leaders, managers, senior managers, team leaders, supervisors, vision, motivation, inspiration, confidence, action, impetus, control, fear
  • Giving Constructive Feedback
    Constructive feedback increases self awareness, offers options and encourages change. senior managers, managers, team leaders, positive, negative, learning, feedback, criticism, opportunity, constructive, potential
  • Communicate with Purpose
    Communication is the glue which holds your school together and yet it can also be the thread that keeps coming apart. message, audience, needs, hooks, invitation, methods, channels, email, face to face, written, presentations, objectives, teachers, heads
  • Daily Controls
    Sometimes you can feel like you have no control of your day to day activities. Diary, priorities, to do list, urgent, important, learn, review, too many, ticking off, get done, covey, teachers, heads
  • Reflecting on your Emotional Intelligence
    Emotional Intelligence is essential for all managers, because people are at the heart of everything we do in business. self awareness, managing change, people skills, social skills, emotional intelligence, personality, performance, motivation, behaviour, emotions, communications, relationships, managers, leaders, team leaders, supervisors
  • Seven Steps to Decluttering
    Can’t see the wood for the trees because you don’t how to clear your clutter? wood for the trees, clutter and waste, root of the problem, emotional issues, recycling, order, decluttering, books and files, clearing cupboards, rules.
  • Active Listening
    Listening is definitely an under rated skill and yet it is one that we rely upon more than any other. teachers, cpd, personal development, listening, active, hearing, distracted, mood, opinion, judgements, know better, like to be right, look good, thoughts, quiet mind
  • Attitude is Everything
    Attitude is everything and the key to personal efficiency. Here are four areas which help you to develop the right attitude and approach. motivation, respect, postive routines, starting meetings on time, not being late, respecting others time, do the nasty jobs, prioritise, reward, procrastination
  • Money, Time, Keyboard and Problem Solving
    Some useful sites from Pauline Campbell on managing your money, telling the time, touch typing, icebreakers, citizenship, employability, and sex education. Some useful sites from Pauline Campbell on managing your money, telling the time, touch typing, icebreakers, citizenship, employability, and sex education.
  • CPD Newsletter Sep 10
    When you manage a team of people they want to know what you expect of them otherwise they can spend months trying work out the “rules” Leadership style, behaviour, likes, dislikes, do's, don'ts, consequences, impact, stengths, teachers, CPD, personal development, communication
  • CPD Newsletter Jul 09
    Coaching for Results coaching, results, performance, support, challenge, listening, encouraging, assertive, goals, unacceptable, standards, consistency, teachers, heads, CPD, schools
  • Home Economics
    Some useful sites, from Pauline Campbell on healthy living and eating, nutrition, food hygiene, healthy teeth, safety, body image and teaching styles. Teeth, hygene, saftey, body image, learning styles, nutrition, healthy eating
  • How to Solve Problems
    Having a problem is like being in a hole where you are surrounded by earth and you can’t see a way out. Managers, Team Leaders, Supervisors, Leaders, analytical, creativity, focus, analyse, problems, solving, options, ideas, structure, questioning, solutions, patterns
  • Teaching and Educational News
    TES, Education News Online, Newsweek, Teachernet, BBC News, TDA, Guardian, Times Online, DfCSF, Secondary Education TES, Education News Online, Newsweek, Teachernet, BBC News, TDA, Guardian, Times Online, DfCSF, Secondary Education
  • Effective Meetings
    We’ve all experienced badly run meetings which never start on time and no-one's in control. Purpose, agenda, conducive venue, groundrules, fun, timing, continuous improvement, visual aids, facilitator, wandering off the point, railroading, dominating.
  • Community and Social Cohesion
    Some key resources to help schools promote and encourage a healthy community. schools linking network, networks and partnerships, promoting community,training, government vision.
  • Teaching Jobs in the UK
    Vacancies, job search, permanent, supply teachers, opportunities, adverts, newspapers. Guardian, Teach in the UK, Teaching and Support Staff positions, teaching jobs, TES, Academic jobs, jobs in education, Teachernet, Teaching in London, Telegraph, Jobs in England, Teaching Assistants
  • Limiting Beliefs
    Our beliefs are inherited from our parents, our teachers, our families and our friends at a very early age. Beliefs, negative assumptions, fear, paralysis, values, stuck, reframing, teachers, heads
  • Top Tips of Interviews
    The key to successful interviews is preparation. Here are five areas which will build your confidence and reduce the stress involved in interviews. personal profile, statement, achievements, strengths, highlights, key events, projects, changes, improvements, successes, career overview, leaving story, sense of purpose, aspirations, interviews, personal skills, technical, business, interpersonal, teachers, heads, colleges, schools
  • Ways to Build Rapport
    Do you find it hard to get on with people because you don’t know how to connect and engage with them? relationships, listening, body language, communication skills, trust, confidence, personal space, connection, focus, tone of voice, creating ease, making people feel comfortable, asking questions.
  • Sites for Parents
    Useful sites including school search, boarding schools, school fee plans, funding help, private schools, home schools and tables. Useful sites including school search, boarding schools, school fee plans, funding help, private schools, home schools and tables.
  • CPD Newsletter Feb 09
    Putting Empathy to the Test! newsletter, CPD, coaching, telelcoaching, empathy, teachers, heads, deputies, conflict, service, emotional intelligence, viewpoints, listening
  • Understanding Personal Conflict
    Do you avoid conflict at all costs because you don’t know how to express your needs? right or wrong,unable to express needs, mutual goals, different values or opinions, collaboration, negotiation, dominate, capitulate, aggressive, controlling violence, bad behaviour.
  • Managing Work Life Balance
    Do you neglect your relationships and feel bad because you don’t know how to create balance in your life? Neglecting my friends and family, no social life, how you spend your time, all work and no play, workacholic, stress, time of socialising, hobbies, moments for relaxing, fun and recreation, switching off after work, health and fitness, wellbeing.
  • Challenges are Opportunities
    As an NQT you can often feel like the new kid on the block. learning, mentoring, coaching, strengths, mistakes, watching others, fast track, progress, observe, shadowing, feedback, respect, assertive, teachers, personal development, CPD
  • Conquering your Fears
    When fear strikes, it plants doubt in our minds causing us to freeze and do nothing. And, in this moment fear stops us from being our best. leaders, managers, senior managers, team leaders, supervisors, open, closed, incisive, powerful, assumptions, questions, what, why
  • Finding Daily Inspiration
    By creating a sense of purpose, practicing self care, maintaining momentum and managing your confidence you can remain inspired. Inspiration, motivation, self care, momentum, stuck, confidence, no enthusiasm, low energy levels.
  • Influencing Different Personality Types
    Do you struggle to influence, because you don’t how to handle resistance or objections? Influencing, resistance, objections, adjusting your style, personality types, self awareness, interpersonal skills
  • CPD Mar Newsletter
    Why its hard for some managers to build trust and how to rebuild it after it's been destroyed. Trust, mistrust, taking risks, empower, challenge, extra mile, regain trust, destroyed, straight talk, respect, transparency, right wrongs, commitment and loyalty, learn from mistakes
  • Resolving Conflict
    We’ve all experienced conflict and felt mildly irritated, slightly annoyed or really angry. Change, conflict, irriation, aggression, annoyance, discomfort, mismatch, agenda, power, involvement, domination, railroad, capitulation, precedent, negotiation, frustrate, procrastination, collaboration, expectation, confidence, managers, supervisors, team leaders, leaders
  • CPD Oct Newsletter 10
    What can happen when you introduce a new person to an established team Team, established, induction, mindset, reframe, learn, team dynamics, forming, norming, storming, performing, teachers, managers
  • CPD Newsletter Apr 09
    Keeping your Cool! Emotions, anger, anxiety, tears, frustration, pressure, exercise, relaxation, letting go
  • Improving your Personal Efficiency
    Are you disorganised and inefficient but lack the self discipline to change? Disorganised, personal routines and habits, goals, planning and organisation, regular activities, old habits die hard, exercise, relaxation, reflection, daily plans, boost your energy.
  • CPD Newsletter July 10
    Listen then Speak Listening, hearing, active, mood, prejudice, opinion, know better, like to be right, judging, noise, pre-occupied, teachers, CPD, personal development
  • New Year Reflections
    Reflection is both a conscious and yet passive way to learn about yourself and the effectiveness of your teaching and when done well can create clarity and provide great insight. annual rituals, creating habits, letting go of the past, positive intentions, new year resolutions, reflection, learning, surface the wisdom, step by step improvement
  • Personal Sacrifices
    Why do people make sacrifices? Is it because they believe in being a good citizen and what goes around comes around? managers, team leaders, supervisors, leaders, sacrfice, expectations, guilt, anger, karma, ceremonies, price
  • Teaching Jobs Abroad
    Live and work abroad, volunteer, specific projects overseas. Live and work abroad, volunteer, specific projects overseas.
  • Doing the Right Thing
    Listen to how coaching has helped a teacher find out what is really important and how to get what you really want. Coaching, Listening, following your heart.
  • Successful Change
    It’s often easier to talk about a change once it’s over and the pains are forgotten rather than when you are caught up in the middle of it. Change, rationale, status quo, building trust, resistance, action, desire, closure, negative, positive, teachers, heads, school leaders, schools, colleges.
  • Career Moves
    As the old saying goes it’s not what you know but who you know that is really important when thinking about your next career move. Career, advice, hints, tips, get help, career coach, create options, assess your skills, aspirations, network.
  • CPD Newsletter Jun 09
    Confidence is like Gardening Seed, weed, feed, confidence, boosters, friends, positive, negative, conversations, puncture, encouragement, support, feedback, role models
  • CPD Newsletter Feb 10
    As the old saying goes it’s not what you know but who you know! help, network, boss, local authority, friends, colleagues, strenghts,values, drivers, career, planning, aspirations, potential, Heads, Teachers, head of department, options, game playing, profile, get seen, schools, colleges.
  • Change your Attitude
    Your attitude is a bit like your skin, it’s everywhere and it’s one of the first things a person will notice about you. leaders, managers, senior managers, team leaders, supervisors, spectator, player, victim, cynic, rebellious, resistance, positive, negative, change, influence
  • From Perfection to Forgiveness
    Perfectionists often expect those around them to be perfect and get angry when they aren’t. Managers, Supervisors, Team Leaders, Leaders, Procrastination, Perfect, forgiveness, deadlines, under pressure, risk, push hard, ask for help, delegate
  • Fail Proof Coaching
    Getting coaching for yourself is one thing, but developing your skills as a coach is another and requires self awareness, understanding and practice. Coaching, mentoring, strengths, personality, non judgemental, attitude, time to think, being present, personal responsibility, life skills.
  • CPD Newsletter Sep 09
    Ways to create Balance balande, work life, priorities, focus, values, important, relax, reflect, perspective, demands, time management, schools, CPD, juggling, workload, heads
  • Identifying Bad Habits
    Your habits will determine your future. Life doesn't just happen to you, its all about choices and how you respond to situations. Habits, routines, managers, team leaders, supervisors, leaders, breaking habits, smoking, control, will power, regrets
  • 7 Steps to Decluttering
    The first step is to understand what and where your clutter hides itself in your life and then you have some chance of dealing with it. managers, team leaders, supervisors, leaders, habits, clutter, routines, change, paper, garage, loft, messy, tidy, efficient
  • CPD Newsletter Mar 10
    Understanding Stress Stress, pressure, physical reactions, emotional reactions, mental reactions, social reactions, temper, anger, negative thoughts, headaches, relaxation, personality, teachers workload, work life balance
  • CPD Newsletter Jan 10
    Unless we have goals we are inclined to drift with the time. When we do we are more focussed, purposeful and successful. desire, belief, motivation, make a list, plan, determination, persistence, action, attitude, teachers, heads, schools, colleges
  • Honouring your Values
    Some people find it hard to say what their values are, but generally know when people do something to compromise them. Values, compromising, responsibility, feel bad, persona, managers, leaders, team leaders,supervisors
  • CPD Newsletter Nov 10
    Who can you influence? Influencing, approach, adjust your style, attitude, personality
  • Resistance to Change
    There are two things which affect a persons’ reaction to change, our energy and our attitude and both can be observed in our behaviour. managers, team leaders, supervisors, leaders, energy, attitude, victims, spectators, cynics, achievers, powerless, rebellious, challenging, negative, critical, resistance, risk adverse, reassurance, encouragement, opportunity, silver lining
  • 10 ways to sharpen your listening skills
    Listen to this podcast with helpful hints and tips on how to improve your listening skills. Internal listening, Focussed Listening, Global Listening, body language, intuition, reading between the lines.
  • 10 Ways to Sharpen your Listening Skills
    Listening is a really under rated skill and yet one that we need every day. And, it is something that tends to be self taught. leaders, managers, senior managers, team leaders, supervisors, listening, judgement, thoughts, focus, side tracked, opinions, body language, hearing, intuition
  • Identifying Bad Habits
    Are you settling for less because you can’t crack those bad habits? Creatures of habits, changing habits, slipping back into old habits, support and encouragement, simple routines, smoking, biting your nails, being untidy, cracking bad habits.
  • Honouring your Values
    Do you ever feel compromised and desperately want to make the right decision but don’t know how to honour your values? Personal Values, guide our decisions, related to choices, what's important in life, ethics, standards, religious beliefs, what you stand for, represent.
  • Freedom from Waste
    Four ways to manage your waste and clutter including, challenging your thoughts, establishing rules, creating systems and regular routines. Clutter, waste, files, records, documents, routines, habits, thoughts,systems, rules,
  • Controlling your Emotions
    Have you ever got angry or upset and later regretted it because you didn’t know how to control your emotions? Angry and upset, regrets, losing control, shouting or aggression, get it off your chest, bottling emotions, feelings, ignoring emotions, outlet, regulate.
  • Controlling your Emotions
    Most of us have experienced that feeling of losing control of our emotions and afterwards feeling embarrassed or annoyed with ourselves. leaders, managers, senior managers, team leaders, supervisors, explosive outlet, positive, leakage, emotions, anger, healthy, control, relaxation
  • CPD Newsletter Mar 09
    Positive about Feedback Feedback, criticism, strengths, weaknesses, faults, learning, development, managers, teachers, CPD, appraisals.
  • Playing to your Strengths
    Your natural talents are like fingers on a hand, they all have a part to play and as you strengthen one, you strengthen them all. Manager, team leaders, supervisors, leaders, linguistic, verbal, numeric, logical, spiritual, practical, naturalist, emotional, musical, physical, strenghts, talents, IQ, EQ
  • Spelling, Words, English, Literacy
    Some useful sites from Pauline Campbell on spelling quizzes and games, and English literacy and grammar. Some useful sites from Pauline Campbell on spelling quizzes and games, and English literacy and grammar.
  • Ways to Build Rapport
    Rapport is a process that builds trust and confidence. Some people seem to be naturally gifted in creating rapport even with complete strangers, whilst others find it hard. senior managers, managers, team leaders, difference, rapport, empathy, listening, questioning, mutual goals, openness, understanding, body language
  • Playing to your Strengths
    Do you hold yourself back because you don’t know how to use your natural talents and play to your strengths? multi intelligence, talents, strengths, linguistic, logical, visual, physical, musical, emotional, social, naturalist, spiritual, practical, academic.
  • CPD Newsletter Dec 09
    Successful Change - and seven key principles to help you plan teachers, heads, school leaders, change, negative, positive, heads,behaviours, attitudes,resistance.
  • Personal Sacrifices
    Have you ever made a personal sacrifice and then felt angry or resentful because you felt it was not appreciated? Reward, Guilt, Resentment, Guilt, Anger, frustration, doing a good deed, good karma, investment, the price or cost of sacrificing, personal needs and expectations.
  • Sharpening your Listening Skills
    Listening is a conscious process which takes time to develop. managers, supervisors, team leaders, leaders, listening, learning, judging, interrupting, eye contact, thoughts, opinions, curiosity, facial gestures, arguments, agenda, listening, hearing, ears
  • Giving Constructive Feedback
    Do you feel awkward giving feedback because you are afraid offending but don’t know how to be constructive? Grow and develop, improve yourself, learning, actions and behaviours, change, being succinct and specific, performance management, appraisals.
  • Freedom from Waste
    Do you get that feeling that the clutter in your life is dragging you down? managers, leaders, team leaders, supervisors, routines, clutter, waste, books, files, mess, paperwork, chaos, disorganised, organisation, fules, reward, energise, freedom, space, recycle, bin, strict, systems
  • Daily Controls
    Here’s three ways which will give you the feeling of being in the drivers’ seat and having more in control of your time. Control, managers, supervisors, leaders, team leaders, to do list, priorities, urgent, important, delegate, dump, defer, do it now, interruptions, saying no, learning from mistakes, estimating, assertive, time management, planning
  • CPD Newsletter May 09
    Capturing Hearts and Minds Personal Vision, buyin, involvement, listening, communication, leadership
  • Equality Law
    Help and support for schools trying to make sense of the equality legislation in the UK. Human Rights Commission, Teachernet, Gender equality, race equality foundation, women and gender issues, good practice, disability and discrimination act, sexual orientation, school duties
  • 7 Steps to Decluttering
    The first step is to understand what and where your clutter hides itself in your life and then you have some chance of dealing with it. Managers, team leaders, supervisors, leaders, clutter, waste, junk, mess, files, books, loft, garage, paper, wood from the trees, efficiency, waste
  • Mastering Motivation
    Do you ever feel deflated and uninspired and don’t know how to adopt a take action today mentality? Aspirations and needs, behaviour and actions, energy levels, positive attitude, progress, reinforcement, vision and goals, confidence, taking actions, self talk, responding to feedback.
  • Shifting from Teaching to Managing
    When you first make the move from teaching to managing it can be challenging even though you may have years of teaching experience under your belt. Self awareness, reflection, impact, management skills, balance, brand, performance, efficiency, life long learning, coaching skills, feedback, listening, managing change,behaviour, relationships, rapport, NLP
  • Selling your Personal Brand
    Have you ever thought of yourself as a brand before? Essentially brands are a combination of values, knowledge, skills and imagery. personal brand, purpose, identity, values, skills, behaviours, environment, product, marketing, selling, managers, leaders, team leaders, supervisors
  • Why Coaching is so Popular?
    Understand how teachers are using coaching for their professional development and how it has evolved. Coaching, professional development
  • Motivating Others
    To get the most out of people you need to understand what motivates them and then appeal to this. managers, team leaders, supervisors, leaders, management style, motivation values, money, career prospects, opportunity, worthy causes, help, personal development, change, variety, fun, structure, fairness, responsibility, challenge
  • Ways to work with Difficult People
    Empathy is at the heart of business and is an essential social skill for any manager. Empathy, social skills, sensitivity, sensing needs, reading a situation, points of view, perspective, seek to understand, question, responsibility, body language, service mentality, listening, curiosity, managers, team leaders, supervisors, leaders
  • Effective Performance Management
    There is nothing worse than feeling like your performance appraisals are a tick box exercise and something that is imposed and done to you managers, supervisors, team leaders, leaders, balanced, meaningful, personal responsibility, poor performance, monitoring, planning, reviews, goals, targets, learning, development, simple, recognition, reward, regular
  • From Perfection to Forgiveness
    Do you ever procrastinate and put things off because you’re afraid of doing a less than a perfect job? Procrastination, expectations, afraid of getting things wrong, finding fault, trapped, struggling to delegate or ask for help, avoiding risk, making mistakes, judging and demanding, prioritising activities, forgiving yourself, self talk.
  • Fail Proof Coaching
    Coaching should be a non-judgemental and stimulating process which gives the other person time to think and share their feelings. managers, leaders, team leaders, supervisors, tools, awareness, responsibility, change, action, strengths, time to think, focus, perspective, aha moments, being present, life skills
  • Understanding your Personality
    Have you ever clashed with someone because they don’t respect your views and you don’t know understand theirs? Opinions, Values, Decision making, clashes, different views, extravert, introvert, lifestyle, energy, moods, attitude, character.
  • Reflective Learning
    Do you get annoyed with yourself when you have to experience things over and over again before you get the message and what is to be learned? Thoughts, feelings, thinking, learning from situations, clarity and insight, soul gazing, learning styles, learning process, developing skills.
  • Powerful Questions
    Do you find it hard to achieve what you want because you don’t know how to ask the right questions? Questions we ask, tests ot exams, solving problems, challenge negative thinking, create possibilities, open questions, closed questions, leading, clarity, reframe, give perspective, types of questions.
  • Powerful Questions
    At the heart of learning is curiosity, which is demonstrated by the questions we ask. From an early age, children make sense of the world by asking why? leaders, managers, senior managers, team leaders, supervisors, open, closed, incisive, powerful, assumptions, questions, what, why
  • Four Steps to Coaching
    Do you ever feel stuck and unable to move because you don’t know how to get started? Goals, life coaching, personal development, mentoring, motivation, taking action, limiting beliefs, fear and inhibitions, the grow model.
  • Goal Setting
    Unless we have goals we are inclined to drift with the time. 7 tips, goals, visualise success, write it down, make a plan, belief, desire, determination, persistence, set a positive intention, teachers, heads, schools, colleges
  • Change your Attitude
    Have you ever behaved badly and then felt bad because you didn’t know how to express your needs? Attitude and behaviour, positive and negative, energy, optimistic, reluctant, risk averse, powerless, critical, whinging, argumentative, spectator, cynic, victim, opposition and resistance.
  • CPD Newsletter Jan 09
    Make a Fresh Start newyear, resolutions, management skills, extrovert, introvert, personality, energy, communication, teachers, lecturers, managers
  • Finding Daily Inspiration
    How do managers hold onto their passion and use it as motivation on a day to day basis? Motivation, inspiration, passion, purpose, confidence, positive, negative, momentum, action, stretch, fear, challenge, self care, sleep, food, exercise, energy, attitude, managers, leaders, supervisors, team leaders
  • Reflective Learning
    Reflection is now considered a vital tool in any personal or professional development and when done well can create clarity and provide great insight. Learning, reflection, continuous improvement, soul gazing, leaders, managers, senior managers, team leaders, supervisors, competence
  • Resistance to Change
    Change is inevitable and if you’re not changing you’re probably regressing. Spectator, Victim, Achievers, Cynics, resistance, change, energy, attitude, behaviour.
  • Prioritising your Time
    Staying focussed requires self discipline which involves setting boundaries and being able to say no to things which cause you to drift away. Managers, Leaders, Team Leaders, Supervisors, prioritising, time, management, delegate, dump, defer, do it now, control, urgent, important
  • Ways to be Assertive
    Assertiveness is about balance, balancing the needs of others with your own. Assertiveness, aggressive, your needs, others, passive, balance, conflict, expressing, standing up for your rights, questioning, understanding, mentor, personal records, teachers, heads
  • New Year Reflections
    Reflection is both a conscious and yet passive way to learn about yourself and when done well will create great insight. letting go, relfection, consciousness, clarity, timeframes, tools, problem solving, inner wisdom, improvement
  • Personality Clashes
    Have you ever noticed how some of your staff respond more easily to what you say than others and wondered if your personality had anything to do with it? managers, supervisors, team leaders, leaders, MBTI, extroverts, introverts, energy, decisions, information, sensing, intuition, facts, ideas, planned, spontaneous, emotional, rationa
  • Prioritising your Time
    Do you waste time on the wrong things and want to achieve more but don’t know how to prioritise? Time Management, Covey, maintaining concentration, self discipline, staying focussed, goals, delegate, dump it, defer things, time robbers, urgent and important, procrastinate, prioritising.
  • All Work and No Play
    Work life balance is a common goal we all aspire to but what does it really take to achieve and maintain it? goals, balance, time, workacholics, review, planning, rules, habits, no play, managers, leaders, supervisors, team leaders
  • The Genius Dip
    How All Children are Born Geniuses, but 98% Lose These Capabilities by Age 20. Genius, children, potential, capability, memorise, tests, punished, intuition, creativity, imagination.
  • Improving your Personal Efficiency
    Without routines we get side tracked and lose momentum and it’s harder to get started again. Managers, team leaders, leaders, supervisors, focus, actions, learning, blueprint, efficiency, habits, routines, rules, planning, priorities, self discipline
  • Good Decisions
    Why are decisions so hard to make? Probably because there are too many people to please. Focus, Analyse, Develop, Execute, FADE, heads, heart, political, challenge assumptions, asking for help, limitations.
  • Positive about Feedback
    Feedback should be like holding up a mirror to someone so that they can see what is going on and what they need to do next. feedback, crticism, weaknesses, wrong, fix, issues, concerns, CPD, appraisals, learning, teachers, heads
  • Trade Unions for Teachers
    Bargain with employers on behalf of members and negotiate contracts, wages, work rules, complaints, hiring, firing, promotion, benefits and workplace safety and policies. Terms and Conditions, wellbeing, policies, rights, CPD, training, complaints procedures, health and workplace safety, wages, contracts.
  • Conquering your Fears
    Are you missing opportunities and holding yourself back because you don’t know how to manage your fear? Missing opportunities, holding yourself back, fear of rejection, fear of failure, fear of the unknown, freezing, wheel of fear, belief systems, what triggers your fear, reactions.
  • Successful Projects
    Project Management can often feel and sound like a rather daunting task but it really is applied common sense. background, objectives, scope, assumptions, approach, risks, roles and responsibilities, deliverables, budgets, costs, on time, project management, schools, teachers, heads
  • Selling your Personal Brand
    If you find selling yourself a chore, then try these personal branding techniques? Values and beliefs, knowledge, product, service, reliability, appealing, looks good, image, attitude, skills, identity, reputation.
  • The Dangers of Taking on Too Much
    Listen to this casestudy on a common problem of when teachers can take on too much responsibility for the school. Coaching, Listening, Personal Responsibility.
  • Personality Clashes
    We are all different and unique and our preferences influence our teaching methods and pupils learning styles. personality tools, psychometrics, MBTI, extrovert, introvert, sixth sense, head or heart, planned or spontaneous.
  • CPD Newsletter June 10
    The three things that motivate us motivation, reward, carrots and sticks, punishment, intrinsic desires, extrinsic desires, autonomy, control, learning, creatintg new things, engagement, sense of purpose, teachers, personal development, CPD
  • Sharpen your Listening Skills
    Listening is a skill that we tend to take for granted and it’s only when someone points out to us that we aren’t listening that we realise how difficult it is. Attitude, thoughts, observation, body language, curiosity, opinions, judgements, perspective.
  • Getting Value from Planning
    Some of the biggest challenges we have is paperwork, bureaucracy and workload issues. planning, thoughts, actions, thinking, reflect, importance, estimating, risks, tasks, intuition, teachers, heads
  • Playing to your Strengths
    Like all professions starting off can be the hardest part and as an NQT. Confidence, self awareness, strengths, personality, perfectionist, teachers, heads
  • Capturing Hearts and Minds
    Simply it’s about knowing what you want to achieve and how you will achieve it purpose, focus, clarity, personal vision, buyin, commitment, pride, satisfaction, engaging, teachers, heads, school purpose
  • CPD Newsletter Nov 09
    Managing your Personal Brand Personal brand, marketing, selling, USP, reputation, identity, image, networking, events, CPD, social networking, facebook, linkedin, youtube, flickr, meetup, careerspringboard, yahoo, blogs, articles, teachers, heads, CPD, schools
  • CPD Newsletter May 10
    How to challenge limiting beliefs
  • Creating Balance and Focus
    Maintaining balance in your life is like sitting or exercising on one of those exercise balls, it requires concentration, constant adjustment and a few skills and techniques. balance, work life, priorities, focus, time management, protecting time, habits, routines, demands, teachers, heads, schools, CPD
  • Good Decision-Making
    When we make decisions, we make them from three different places, our hearts, our heads and a political view point. points of view, pleasing others, positive, negative, impact, pros and cons, analysis, black and white, options, focus, develop, execute, ideas, measures, limitations, managers, supervisors, team leader, leader
  • Four Steps to Coaching
    We are masters at getting in the way of our own lives and interfering with it. People always look outside for the answers when the solutions are always within us. senior managers, managers, team leaders,action, coaching, listening, questioning, feedback, goals
  • Understanding Personal Conflict
    People find themselves in conflict over facts, goals, methods or values. senior managers, managers, team leaders, domination, collaboration, negotiation, capitulation, abdication, conflict, disagreements, upperhand
  • Maths, Fractions, Conversions and Numeracy
    Useful websites from Pauline Campbell for Maths Games, Fractions, Conversions and Numeracy maths games, fractions, numeric
  • How to avoid dysfunctional teams
    Mistrust is the first dysfunction a manager needs to fix otherwise it can lead to further problems. Trust, conflict, accountability, shared results, commitment, buyin, teachers, heads
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  • CPD Newsletter Aug 09
    How to boost your energy energy, boost, time, relax, feed your mind, feed your body, brain cells, stimulation, diet, drinking, water, soul, new, teachers, CPD, heads, schools
  • Understanding NLP
    NLP was invented by John Grinder a linguist and Richard Bandler a mathematician. Bandler, Grinder, NLP, Communication, Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, outcome, body language, senior managers, managers, team leaders
  • Effective Meetings
    Here is a checklist of some key essentials which may seem obvious but people forget. managers, team leaders, supervisors, leaders, energy, attitude, victims, spectators, cynics, achievers, powerless, rebellious, challenging, negative, critical, resistance, risk adverse, reassurance, encouragement, opportunity, silver lining
  • Understanding your Personality
    We all have our own unique way of thinking and behaving, our own unique style and personality. Managers, team leaders, supervisors, leaders, personality, extrovert, introvert, facts, ideas, head, heart, planned, spontaneous, impact, different
  • How to become a life long learner?
    We used to think that learning was something we only did in the first twenty or so years of our lives and then it was about how much money we could earn so that we could retire comfortably. life long learning, teachers, heads, CPD, personal development, training, learning styles, reflector, activist, pragmatist, theorist, defining moments, opportunities to learn, curiosity
  • What really motivates us?
    Our ability to have control over our lives, to learn new things and have a purpose greater than ourselves. motivation, reward, carrots and sticks, intrinsic desires, extrinsic desires, autonomy, control, learning, engagement, sense of purpose, teachers, CPD, personal development
  • Ways to work with difficult people
    Empathy requires tolerance, patience and a sense of curiosity but when developed can be the most powerful tool and skill to have. Social skills, interpreting needs expectations and feelings, comfort and ease, valuing difference, perspectives, conflict, service mentality, listening and questioning, body language, NLP, behaviour, patience.
  • CPD Newsletter Oct 09
    Culture Change culture change, attitude, behaviour, sense of urgency, empowering, teamwork, conflict, resistance, heads, teachers, CPD, schools, direction, common goals
  • Personal Development For Teachers
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  • Popular Social Networking
    Social networking sites are having an undeniable impact on the way people are learning, connecting and sharing information. People are communicating by writing blogs, sharing photos, playing games and chatting in forums. Bebo, blogger, facebook, myspace, youtube, xanga, flickr, friendster, cyworld, friends reunited, Hi5
  • Managing your Work Life Balance
    You hear the term work life balance, almost as though “our work” is separate from our lives and it’s only when we’ve finished work that we start living! balance, work, life, managers, team leaders, supervisors, leaders, stress, workacholics, working too much, no play, no life
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    If you find selling yourself a chore, then try these personal branding techniques! personal brand, self awareness, marketing, selling, promoting, networking, events, socialising, social networking, CPD, reputation, identity, image, USP.
  • Getting value from Planning
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  • All Work and No Play
    Work life balance is a common goal we all aspire to but what does it really take to achieve and maintain it? Some teachers like to exert all their energy at school, often leaving little time for friends and family work life balance, goals, energy, workalcholics, monitoring progress, regular reviews, wasting time, planning, rules, allocating time.
  • CPD Newsletter Apr 10
    Career moves career, advice, hints, tips, get help, career coach, assess your skills, strengths, aspirations, work out what's important to you, create options, network, raise your profile.

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