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St Joseph’s Catholic High School

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Quick facts

Regional
Single Campus
7 - 12
> 680 students
> 115 staff

Context.

01.
Regional secondary school
02.
Strong focus on retention and continuing to build a positive and engaging culture
03.

Customer Goals.

  • Measure and track staff resilience and culture to support retention and student outcomes
  • Blend insights and workforce data, along with the leadership team’s understanding of their unique context, into a Workforce Strategy

How PeopleBench helped.

  • The school used the PeopleBench Workforce Resilience Tracker™ and Workforce Culture Tracker™ to capture new workforce metrics
  • PeopleBench facilitated debriefs and Community of Practice sessions to unpack the resilience results and next steps
  • PeopleBench is partnering with the school as they use the Workforce Strategy Builder™ to implement their workforce strategy

Results.

  • ‘Eyeopening’ insights into the resilience profile of the staff group, including an assessment of staff resilience against benchmarks
  • Opportunities to share and discuss data with school staff
  • Leadership team reviewed support processes and procedures with an understanding of which groups within the school needed support, and where
  • Upward trends in resilience scores between conducts of the Resilience Tracker survey
  • A school Workforce Strategy, with a range of priorities, including support mechanisms and development for early career teachers

What our clients say.

If the staff are happy and engaged, the kids will be happy and engaged as well.

  • Amanda Wilson – Principal

St Joseph’s Catholic High School

The breakdown by age demographic was absolutely eye opening. It really made us look at our [support] processes and procedures.

  • Amanda Wilson – Principal

St Joseph’s Catholic High School

Having a workforce strategy is absolutely essential.

  • Amanda Wilson – Principal

St Joseph’s Catholic High School

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