Strategy briefing videos

Independent schools need a robust strategy to come out of the COVID-19 crisis thriving. In this video I explain why all your strategies need to shift, including academic, marketing, fundraising and finance strategies. It's critical that you start building strategic thinking skills across your school. This is the first of a series of daily posts looking at strategy for independent schools.

As the external environment changes fast during the COVID-19 crisis independent schools can use PESTEL analysis to spot the changes that will affect them. Identifying these trends early gives you more time to craft a strategic response. Using PESTEL analysis will also build your team's strategic thinking skills. PESTEL encourages us to think through six types of external trend: - Political - Economic - Social - Technological - Environmental - Legal This is part of a series of daily posts looking at strategy for independent schools. Find out more at: www.consultjuliet.co.uk/videos

The hardest cost cutting projects to deliver are those that require lots of staff across an organisation to change their day-to-day behaviour. This video looks at two tips for achieving cost-saving behaviour changes: bright spots and storytelling. This is part of a series of daily posts looking at strategy for independent schools. Find out more at: www.consultjuliet.co.uk/videos

We're all having to innovate at the moment. How can we make this innovation and trial and error as strategic as possible? One way is to use it to fill skill gaps and promote organisational learning. This is part of a series of daily posts looking at strategy for independent schools. Find out more at: www.consultjuliet.co.uk/videos

Ambidextrous strategy, which combines cost cutting and innovation, is an effective strategy for recession. Many organisations are instinctively doing this in response to the current coronavirus crisis. This video explores how to best apply an ambidextrous strategy. This is part of a series of daily posts looking at strategy for independent schools. Find out more at: www.consultjuliet.co.uk/videos. This includes the videos about cost cutting, innovation and PESTEL analysis mentioned in this video.

Strategic thinking is a critical skill set for guiding your independent school through the coronavirus crisis. Strategic thinking combines five types of thinking: systems thinking, directional thinking, creative thinking, divergent thinking and convergent thinking. This is part of a series of daily posts looking at strategy for independent schools. Find out more at: www.consultjuliet.co.uk/videos

Being part of a team with a clear strategy often feels more fulfilling because you know how the work you do contributes to your team’s overall vision. Research supports this view: communicating a clear vison and strategy is correlated with higher employee engagement. People don’t normally talk about how strategy feels. But I think this is important - it’s yet another reason why you need to create and communicate a robust strategic response to the current uncertainty. This is part of a series of daily posts looking at strategy for independent schools. Find out more at: www.consultjuliet.co.uk/videos

All robust strategies need four components: a vision which sets out what you hope to achieve; an analysis of the accelerators driving you towards that vision and the sticking points holding you back; a general approach to how you’re going to overcome those sticking points; and a set of coherent actions. This is part of a series of daily posts looking at strategy for independent schools. Find out more at: www.consultjuliet.co.uk/videos