Insights
We regularly produce articles that we hope will inform, inspire, and provide insights into school strategy and leadership.
Schools Are Brilliant at Red Flags. Green Flags… Not So Much.
Schools are quick to spot what’s wrong and what needs to change. But what if the most important signals aren’t problems at all? Green flags are already there, quietly gaining traction. The question is whether we notice them early enough to do something about them.
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.
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.
Everyone Agreed. That Was the Problem.
Groupthink doesn’t wear a name badge—it hides behind smiles and smooth meetings. In schools, silent agreement can derail strategy before it starts. This post explores why teams nod along, and what it takes to disagree well.
The Forgotten Strategy Step | What School Strategy Could Learn From Past Plans
Most schools draft new strategic plans without reviewing the last one, thus repeating mistakes and ignoring progress. Using Richard Rumelt’s strategy criteria and the After Action Review (AAR), schools can turn reflection into a strategic advantage—learning from the past to build smarter plans.
Cognitive Diversity: The Next Big Shift in School Leadership Approaches
Cognitive diversity—different ways of thinking—is often unseen in leadership. Research by Scott E. Page, Roger Martin, and Charlan Nemeth shows that diverse thinking teams outperform homogeneous ones. For school leaders, embracing this leads to better decisions, innovation, and outcomes.
Unlocking Strategic Success: Mastering After-Action Reviews
Why would a school want to conduct an AAR on their strategic plan? Probably because dissecting outcomes is the most remarkable mechanism for understanding in a learning organisation. Hopefully, schools in the 21st century are drinking heavily from the learning organisation Kool-Aid.
Has remote learning taught us anything?
COVID-19 has not been ideal. In fact, it has been the least idyllic circumstance the global population has encountered in the 21st century. Yet, while we rue its existence it has brought forward a cataclysmic event
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