strategy...
- Reviews, research and analysis as input to your thinking.
- Facilitation at planning meetings, or a full planning service.
- Support and challenge at every stage.
- Strategic plans, development plans, action plans or recovery plans.
Too many schools have plenty of plans but fight shy of reviewing their overall strategy. Aiming for an ever-better education is fine, but ever-increasing staff costs mean you also have to reflect what enough parents want, can afford, and choose to afford. This will change over time, so periodic review is essential.
Simon Shneerson can provide you with accurate and honest strategic appreciation which will allow you (Heads, Bursars, SMTs and Governors) to reassess your school's current position and future opportunities. He offers a full market research capability as well as wide knowledge of all the internal and external factors which should come into your thinking. He can present you with facts, issues and opportunities as the start of your planning, he can facilitate your discussions or leave you to it, or he can lead the whole process and manage the detail for you.
Whichever approach you choose, he will give constructive challenge that will raise your sights and stimulate the wider reflection that every successful organisation needs from time to time. Use him to lead your discussions and he'll take the pain out of planning, with a simple step-by-step process that gives everyone their say yet draws out the strategy with a minimum of effort.
Simon can also help you turn strategy into department plans, development plans and policies and procedures. Or, if you're facing a crisis, he'll help you pull together a pragmatic and effective recovery plan, using his heavyweight marketing and management experience to give you solutions that will work and be cost-effective too.