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Middle Management Training

RHINOSS: PROVIDING SUPPORTIVE CONSULTANCY AND PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO MATCH YOUR NEEDS.

Rhinoss Consultancy and Publications. LEADING THE WAY IN EDUCATIONAL CONSULTANCY AND ADVICE. Our central aim is to provide a high quality range of one day national training conferences, supportive consultancy, custom-made school based INSET activities and focused residential courses.

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Effective learning organisations have effective departments, this does not happen by chance. In those schools, Senior Management Teams strive continuously hard to encourage, develop and nurture established Middle Managers, identify those aspiring staff who have the potential to become future Heads of Departments and Learning Managers.

Part of the repertoire of these schools is to ensure that these individuals and groups of staff are exposed to leading edge, high quality, sustainable training. Rhinoss can offer a specific range of tailor made experiences, either over a two day residential course or through a series of stand alone modules (approximately two hours) to match the needs of your organisation and your staff . Examples from our present programme include:

Diagnostic Tools

  • Evaluating competencies
  • Gap analysis
  • Dot matrix analysis
  • Understanding relationships and task behaviours

Managing People

  • Influence and negotiation skills
  • Handling and dealing with conflict resolution
  • Getting the best out of people and teams
  • Developing capacity and encouraging innovation

Managing Performance

  • Auditing trends in pupil performance
  • Evaluating standards through data analysis techniques
  • Reviewing work scrutiny and pupil tracking processes
  • Evaluating effective lessons
  • Sharing best practice

Managing Projects

  • Preparing bids or SEFs ( Specialist College Status, BSF Visioning)
  • Undertaking School Based Action Research
  • Promoting your department
  • Attracting funding and interest in your developments

Managing Systems, Policy and Practice

  • Effective accountability
  • Curriculum innovation
  • Implementing decisions

Managing Time

  • Achieving Results and Goal Setting
  • Paper Management
  • Project Planning
  • "Tales of the Unexpected"

Documents available to read and download:

Middle Management Modules

Diagram of the suggested available modules.  It is recommended that Module 1 is undertaken first, and, depending on the outcomes, there is flexibility in the delivery of the others.


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Managing Change Effectively

An illustration from a module on barriers to understanding the dynamics of change
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How ideas might be killed

A series of fun handouts to explore serious blocks to creativity
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'Through the Looking Class'

Lesson observation training for middle managers - secure judgements
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