Insights
We regularly produce articles that we hope will inform, inspire, and provide insights into school strategy and leadership.
A Plan Is Not a Strategy New
Schools don’t need bigger plans. They need sharper choices. Strategy is the playing field you choose and the way you win on it, not a list of actions. When schools shift from plans to positioning, everything else starts to make sense.
The Report Card for Strategy: What Would Yours Say?
Most schools wait until January to review their strategy — but the learning is already gone by then. The smartest leaders pause before the year ends, while the insights are still warm, the data is still real, and the culture is still listening.
Why There’s Nothing Strategic About Pillars
Strategic pillars look stable but fracture true alignment. This post explores why schools default to pillar models, how they limit execution and choice, and why cascading goals create measurable, purpose-driven strategy.
Why Your School’s Lead Indicators Aren’t Leading
Most schools don’t fail at planning — they fail at proving. Lead indicators should reveal whether your daily actions are shaping tomorrow’s results, but too often they measure activity, not impact. Here’s how to build ones that actually move the dial.
Why Your Next Teachers Are Strategic Assets, Not Replacements
Next year’s hires aren’t next year’s problem — they’re your ten-year future. Strategic hiring isn’t about filling timetables; it’s about shaping culture, leadership, and longevity. The teachers you choose today will define the school you lead tomorrow.
Strategy Fatigue and Why Principals Burn Out Before Christmas
When strategy becomes a solo burden, leaders burn out before Christmas. A good strategy should guide, not grind. Fatigue isn’t failure—it’s a sign your plan is carrying weight it was never meant to bear.
The Silent Drain on Enrolments | Value Decay Explained
Families don’t always leave because of fees—they leave because of value decay. Learn why parents drift at Prep, Year 7, and Year 10, and how schools can map and reverse the erosion of worth before it becomes an enrolment crisis.
Less, But Better: The Strategic Art of Eliminating School Activities
Teachers are burning out not from too little, but from too much. True leadership isn’t adding the next shiny initiative—it’s pruning the branches weighing the tree down. Less isn’t loss. Less is better.
Schools Face Cozzie Livs Turbulence, But Enrolments Are Still Taking Off
Independent school enrolments are climbing even as #cozzielivs squeezes families. Growth looks like strength, but strategy asks: what happens when the tide turns? Here’s why schools can’t mistake demand for invincibility.
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