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Diary of a headteacher: Winning the trust of your staff

Culture is incredibly important in any school and that begins with trust. Our headteacher diarist reflects on how leaders can win – and keep – their staff’s trust

One of the most crucial aspects of leading a school is establishing trust across the organisation. If you want to take people with you and get them to buy into your vision, your staff have to trust you, implicitly.

Trust is something that can take years to build and seconds to destroy. Trust is a precious commodity and it cannot be bought, nor can it be bottled.

As a leader you can have the best strategies in the world and the greatest vision for where you want to take the school, but if your colleagues don’t trust you, you’ve got no chance. Culture eats strategy for breakfast, right? You bet it does and there is no culture more important to establish than one of trust.

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