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Case Study

St Joseph’s Primary School.

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Workforce Strategy Builder™

Quick facts

Regional school
Single Campus
K - 6
191 Students
18 teaching staff and 6 non-teaching staff

Context.

01.
Strong collaborative practices
02.
Relatively new Principal
03.

Customer Goals.

  • Access workforce data, benchmarks, and trends
  • Create a clearer, shared understanding of current staff resilience and how to support it
  • Measure and improve staff resilience over time
  • Identify clear goals and priorities as part of a workforce strategy

How PeopleBench helped.

  • Staff completed the short, anonymous Workforce Resilience Tracker survey online
  • Leadership team used the Workforce Resilience dashboard to measure staff resilience across 7 research-backed factors
  • PeopleBench debriefed the Principal and Leadership team on strengths and areas for development
  • Leadership team accessed quality resources on-demand
  • Participating in a series of Community of Practice workshops with other Wagga Wagga leaders to progress Workforce Strategy priorities and soundboard meaningful actions towards change

Results.

  • Workforce resilience priorities identified in the factors of Maintaining Perspective and Managing Stress
  • Leadership team gained insights into workforce data and trends plus professional learning in change implementation
  • Noticeable change in staff voice—including willingness and confidence to contribute perspectives and potential solutions
  • Created a school-based project team including leadership team and staff members to drive change
  • Planning another conduct of the Workforce Resilience Tracker™ to measure success
  • Embedded positive change and action as part of the Annual (school) Improvement Plan

What our clients say.

“It provided opportunities for us to have very clear, identified goals. So, it doesn’t become a side project. It’s actually embedded with what we’re doing across the school with our Annual Improvement Plan.”

  • Kym Willis – Principal

St Joseph's Primary School

“We couldn’t have done it without [PeopleBench]. We wanted to do something, but we were stuck. We didn’t know the ‘how’. We knew ‘why’. But we didn’t know how we were going to get there. PeopleBench came at the exact right time for us.”

  • Kym Willis – Principal

St Joseph's Primary School

“We call them small changes, but a lot of small changes contribute to a big change.”

  • Kym Willis – Principal

St Joseph's Primary School

“It’s not time-consuming, the workload wasn’t huge. It was really easy to implement.”

  • Kym Willis – Principal

St Joseph's Primary School

“This has been so valuable, because it’s provided some professional learning for myself and my leadership team around how we are going to implement change in our workplace culture. It’s given me insight into the school itself—the staffing trends and data. And, more importantly, what we are going to do to improve and move forward? That’s what it’s all about. It’s all about making sure we continue to improve our workplace and improve our students’ learning.”

  • Kym Willis – Principal

St Joseph's Primary School

“The resources in the library have been fantastic. Once you’ve identified the areas you’d like to see growth in, it was so easy to go to the library and look for the resources.”

  • Kym Willis – Principal

St Joseph's Primary School

“It’s been refreshing to work with PeopleBench—an organisation that’s got the same beliefs, the same passion, the same end goal as you.”

  • Kym Willis – Principal

St Joseph's Primary School
Previous St Benedict’s School. Next Good Shepherd Catholic College.

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