These slides were developed for a heads conference in May 2025.
Here’s the session overview:
Staff Wellbeing: Strategies for Success
In this 90-minute session, school leaders will explore practical, actionable strategies for prioritising and enhancing staff wellbeing, fostering a thriving school community. With a focus on leadership’s role in creating a culture of wellbeing, we’ll delve into managing reasonable workloads, promoting life-work balance, and fostering connection and belonging among staff.
You’ll leave inspired and equipped with tools to:
- Lead with wellbeing at the forefront of your school culture
- Implement simple strategies to support staff and reduce stress
- Create a team environment where everyone feels heard, valued, and empowered
- Develop a roadmap for sustainable professional growth and development
If you were there, I hope these are a helpful aide-memoire. If not, I hope they make enough sense without me to be useful. If you’d like to download them, you can do so via this page on Slideshare.
Further Resources
Here are some further resources you might find helpful to build on the session:
- HUMANKIND: Staff Wellbeing Award and training
- GUIDE: Self-Care Ideas for Busy Parents and Carers
- BOOK: Things I Got Wrong So You Don’t Have To
- BOOK: The Mentally Healthy Schools Workbook
- VIDEO: Establishing good sleep hygiene
- VIDEO PLAYLIST: Staff wellbeing videos on Pooky’s channel
- BOOK: The Wellbeing Toolkit: Sustaining, supporting and enabling school staff
- eLEARNING: Self-Care for Those Who Care
- PODCAST: How can we use psychology’s secrets to boost our wellbeing?
- PODCAST: How Can We Get Physically Active When Motivation Is Low?
- PODCAST: What’s a To Don’t List and Why Do You Need One?
- 6 in 60: 6 Tips for Better Sleep
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