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Rhema Group launches Leadership and Change Management Training Programmes for Teachers.

The Government’s agenda for schools together with their Building Schools for the Future initiative (a massive £45billion investment in school buildings and ICT) promises immense and transformational change.

Challenges for Headteachers and their Senior Management Teams include:

• The need to work with
• other schools to deliver new diploma lines for 14 to 19 year olds.
• other providers of learning.
• Work – related learning involving Para-Professionals and Business Partnerships, and inclusion of non-teachers on the school staff
• A remodelled examination structure and new teaching and learning responsibilities within those
• Further development of the Government’s “Every Child Matters” agenda.
• Raising of the school leaving age.

Addressing these vital issues successfully will require teachers at all levels to embrace, lead and manage change at a very sophisticated level. On their own admission this is a challenge for which they have been ill-prepared. IQ is rapidly being replaced by EQ (Emotional Intelligence) as the arbiter of their success.

Rhema Group is alert and taking a leading role in providing training programmes for individual schools and school clusters. These are designed to equip teachers with the wide range of ‘soft skills’ they now require to make the Government’s blueprint for schools a reality.

The training programmes focus on three key elements:

• Confronting and then planning to deliver the changes required as a school or as a cluster.
• Identifying and acquiring the skills required as a leader and manager of change as a Headteacher or Teacher.
• Identifying and acquiring the skills required to empower others to deliver change at their level.

Jeremy Francis comments: “When it comes to implementing significant and long lasting change the emphasis all too often is on the physical and tangible deliverables. Changing the layout of a school building, upgrading the ICT and sharing resources in a new and imaginative way will only deliver optimum results if those involved can work well together in an interdependent world in which benefits need to be delivered for all concerned.

“This requires real insight into human interactions and this is what we intend to impart. Early signs are that there is a real hunger for this emotional intelligence from teachers at all levels”.