Staff in schools feel like they are constantly juggling competing priorities—planning, marking, meetings, managing behaviour, dealing with parents and the never-ending to-do list. It can feel overwhelming at times. In her bestselling book, Get Your Sh*t Together, Sarah Knight offers a refreshingly straightforward
A study by Microsoft found that a third of our day is unproductive. That’s more than two and a half hours each day. That’s too much! If you feel like a lot of your day gets wasted, keep reading. It can be beneficial to look a lot deeper at what you are doing. We need to pay attention to what’ s going on around us and how we show up and impact on our own productivity. Self-leadership starts with self-awareness.
Report writing time can be stressful — late nights, pressure and additional workload at a busy time. Instead of dreading the approach of report writing time and using weak coping strategies like counting down the days till the holidays, try planning early (super-early – like, now!) to make reporting time much calmer. Planning early can make the whole process calmer and smoother.
Schools can be crazy busy places. The most common response you hear when you ask someone who works in a school, how they are, is busy! However, there is a fine line between being busy and being productive. Here are seven tips from international best-selling author Tim Ferriss.
In busy school environments, multi-tasking feels like a survival skill. You’re replying to emails, managing student (and parent) behaviour, planning lessons and supporting colleagues — often all at once. But here’s the truth: multi-tasking is not making you more productive. It’s slowing you down, increasing errors and burning you out.