R@W Foundations
Master the skills required to lead a resilient workforce.
Designed for leaders in education ready to strengthen wellbeing and performance for themselves and their teams.
What you'll gain:
- Deep insight into the science of resilience and how it impacts school performance
- Personalised leadership assessments and 1:1 coaching
- A structured, evidence-based framework (R@W Scale) for building team resilience
- Practical strategies to sustain wellbeing and performance—for yourself and your staff
- Tools to take immediate, meaningful action in your school
Why it matters:
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Resilient teams adapt faster, engage more deeply, and experience less burnout.
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Staff resilience is positively correlated with reduced staff turnover.
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Leading with care and intention improves your own wellbeing—and your impact.
Course Inclusions:
- Each participant completes 2 x online self-rated R@W assessments – the Individual scale and the Leader scale
- Individual 90min 1:1 debriefs with an accredited facilitator
- 1 day facilitated training day with two qualified facilitators
- 2 x textbooks for ongoing learning and implementation of exercises with teams post course
- Course notes and evaluation survey distributed following the program
Course format.
Morning
- Welcome and introduction – meet each other
- Performance + well-being – looking at definitions/research, concepts and theoretical underpinnings
- Overview of the individual, team, leader toolkit
- Unpacking the individual scale (authenticity, finding your calling, maintaining perspective, mastering stress, interacting cooperatively, staying healthy and building networks)
Midday
Shared reflections from coaching and useful ideas for boosting individual resilience – further developing strategies for building individual resilience (depending on the result of the cohort individual tests we will select from the following types of content that clients often need):
- Understanding and using personal strengths
- The role of integrity
- Emotional regulation and control
- Mood Management
- Linking work to higher purpose
- Developing social connectedness
- Perspective on set-backs
- Solution-focused problem solving
- Avoiding thinking traps
- Adaptability
- Identifying network gaps
- Developing access to right support
- Self-care routines at home and work
- De-stressing and de-briefing techniques
- Passive and active relaxation
- Time management
- Workload negotiation
- Work-life balance
- Mindfulness & meditative practice
- Seeking performance feedback
- Seeking support
- Offering support
- Changing habits
- The science of light and sleep
Afternoon
Unpacking the leader and team scale (robust, resourceful, persevere, self-care, capable, connected, aligned. Shared reflections from leader feedback and useful ideas – ways to strengthen leadership practice and build team resilience (depending on the result of the cohort individual tests we will select from the following types of content that clients often need):
- Capitalising on team strengths
- Agreeing team values and mechanisms
- Share goals and common purpose
- Mechanisms to link tasks to purpose
- Developing social cohesion
- Team problem solving strategies & routines
- Embedding optimism & positivity into teams
- Developing cultures of self-care
- Workload management strategies
- Developing a feedback culture
- Processes for reflective practice and Continuous Improvement
Planning for sustained success – building peer pairs and networks Session reflection and learning loop.
