I work in education ( not a school ) . I have been a teacher for a while and I have a promotion into management. I will also be completing a NPQ . I will be in a deputy role so I will have a manager above me, in my setting. We then have a higher SLT.
I haven’t done this before and I really want to get it right. We have a new staff team, with a few staff who know me from my previous role. I will be line managing the majority of staff on site .
I want to be a great support to my manager , who is new into the company , and I want to set boundaries and expectations from the first day. I feel , as I am not new to the company , that although I have a manager there will be a lot of expectation on me . I also don’t want to overstep . We are at a new site and on my previous site although there was a manager , they weren’t my manager - my line manager was off site.
In September we have a week before the students arrive and at this point we are all brand new to site , all staff ( including my manager - the head of site - are new to the company aside from myself and a few TA’s )
I have worked in toxic schools before and I want this to be the opposite of that but at the same time I know the staff do need to be managed and have expectations clear and embedded from the start.
Any tips on how to really start as I mean to go on ?