This hands-on two-hour workshop provides expert guidance on the key considerations for carrying out CEO performance reviews. Learn how to support your CEO’s development while improving trust-wide outcomes.Ìý
What you'll learn
This course will equip participants with the understanding needed to confidently undertake an CEO appraisal now; it is also intended to be a catalyst for the future review and improvement of existing appraisal processesÌý
By the end of this course, participants will:Ìý
- Understand their role in the CEO performance management cycleÌý
- Recognise the link between CEO performance and trust-wide outcomesÌý
- Be more confident in conducting effective CEO appraisalsÌý
- Understand how to use evidence and feedback to support or challenge CEO performanceÌý
- Know how to set clear, strategic, and measurable objectives and monitor theseÌý
- Understand how to make sensible performance-related remuneration decisionsÌý
- Meet DfE accountability requirementsÌýÌý
Costs
°ÅÀÖÊÓƵÏÂÔØapp membership offers you substantial savings on this course and access to much more and there are discounts for group bookings.
Members
Non-members
Who is the programme for?
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Trustees (especially Chairs and appraisal panel members) in a Multi-Academy Trust
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HR professionals supporting Multi-Academy Trusts
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Governance professionals involved in arranging CEO appraisal
What are the benefits?
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Expert led focus on setting-specific good practice
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Sharp insights into challenges, pitfalls and how to avoid them
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Small group interactivity for richer understanding
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Tried and tested templates to support the appraisal process
How you’ll learn
The session will be take place online via ZoomÌýÌý
It will be interactive with a mixture of participant activities and facilitator-led explanation and discussion.Ìý
The focus of the session will be on facilitated discussion of key considerations including:Ìý
- Specific objective setting and the link with a trust’s strategic prioritiesÌý
- Informed framing and monitoring of the general performance expectationÌý
- How to deal with underperformance successfullyÌýÌý
- Monitoring of performance against objectivesÌý
- Setting of performance- related remuneration packagesÌý
The session will be led by a quality-assured °ÅÀÖÊÓƵÏÂÔØapp consultant with extensive experience in CEO appraisal, both as a MAT trustee and chair, and as an independent expert appointed to support boards through this process.Ìý
Participants will receive a comprehensive resource pack and templates to help implement learning in practice.Ìý
Stephen Hopkins
Stephen Hopkins has thirty years’ experience of school governance including chairing a large multi academy trust, governing boards of primary and secondary schools and academies and the Education and Personnel Committee of a very large national multi academy trust. As an °ÅÀÖÊÓƵÏÂÔØapp consultant Stephen undertakes External Reviews of Governance and Headteacher/CEO performance management support and facilitates training for chairs, clerks and boards. Stephen is a trained Ofsted inspector and has extensive headship (primary and secondary) and school improvement support experience. As a qualified coach (Institute of Leadership and Management and the International Authority for Professional Coaching and Mentoring) Stephen has extensive experience of supporting school leaders and senior executives.
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