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Making the best use of your skills on a Governing Body
How do your skills and expertise fit with the work of the Governing
Body?
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Skill = ability to do something well
The ability, coming from one’s knowledge, practice, aptitude. A skill can be developed through
deliberate, systematic and sustained effort.
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Transferable Business Skills
Business acumenFinancial understandingLeadership skillsLegal skillsHR skillsMarketingConstruction
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If you were starting a business you would look for people with expertise to help you.
One person is unlikely to have all the skills/expertise required.
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How do you know what you are looking for?Do you know what skills/expertise your existing governors have?
Time to do a skills audit.
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What skills do you have?
Be honest.
Decisions need to be made based on fact rather than well meaningful but inaccurate information.
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Why people from business?
Making best use of their skills/expertise.
Strategic thinking.
Used to challenging and being challenged.They want to make a difference.
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Making Best Use of Your Skills(This is an illustration and not an exhaustive list)
Sector Skill Benefit to a Governing Body
Financial Data analysisAccountsBudgetingIdentifying savingsTeam working
The finance function of schoolPupil trackingImpact of Pupil PremiumCurriculum dataAnalysis of results
Legal ContractsEmployment LawData analysisTeam working
Exclusion panelsComplaintsSafeguarding
HR People skillsEmployment LawSelection & RecruitmentLeadership & ManagementTeam working
InterviewingExclusion panelsRecruitment of HT & SLTPerformance managementCPD
Marketing Project managementMarketingPeople skillsSocial mediaTeam working
Parental engagementCommunity engagementPromotion of school
Health & Social Care Working with vulnerable groupsWellbeing
SafeguardingPupil Premium
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You also need
EnthusiasmCommitment
andTIME
and you need to support the ethos and values of the school
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Don’t forget
You can enhance your own skill-setYou can learn from others
You can influence decisionsYou can have an impact on the lives of children
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