Good Shepherd Catholic College.

It means we can engage our staff in a conversation about wellbeing and develop a plan together. It’s not just the leadership team developing a plan based on what we think, but we can actually work with the staff to develop a plan, implement strategies that are based on the needs of our staff.

“[The Resilience Tracker™] means we can engage our staff in a conversation about wellbeing and develop a plan together. It’s not just the leadership team developing a plan based on what we think, but we can actually work with staff to develop a plan and implement strategies that are based on the needs of our staff.”

We used the resources from PeopleBench to prompt staff to think about ‘what are the individual actions I can take for my own wellbeing?’ and ‘what are then the actions of the staff, the leadership team, and the school more broadly?’

What are the areas we most want to see change in from a school point of view? What’s going to give us the most impact in terms of making staff wellbeing change? That’s new information for us now that we can use as part of our planning.

Initially, I was hesitant to use the Strategy Builder. It was a busy time. But it actually was a very easy process. All the data helped to be able to identify the goals easily.

If we can build a robust and resilient staff, our staff will be happier in the work they are doing, they’ll be happy to establish themselves and stay in the profession. That can only translate to positive relationships with students and that’s always going to lead to positive outcomes.

It’s had an impact already.

It’s easy for staff in schools to make assumptions around teacher stress or workforce pressures. The benefit of the Resilience Tracker is it gives you the data for your school and it gives you tangible resources to use against the different factors that are affecting resilience.

It definitely gives us very specific data about where we need to be putting our energy.