Best Practice

Effective leadership: Building staff relationships

As a headteacher, a key part of your role – and crucial to your school’s success – is building strong relationships with your staff. That means getting out and about…

Sitting across the table from me is Dennis. His wife has mental health problems and there are days when she does not remember who he is. She can be violent in the mornings and swears repeatedly as he tries to leave the house for work.

On his left is Jenny who has just gone through a messy divorce. By her own admission she is very much better off where she is now but there are moments when she wonders what will happen next.

Over to the right is Pat. She is currently very happy indeed as the news has come through of the impending adoption of her second son.

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