I often ask setting leaders what the hardest part of being a manager is, and nine times out of 10 the response is ‘managing staff’. Many managers feel that their qualifications haven’t prepared them for managing people, so we rely on our own experiences of being managed, things we’ve read and conversations we’ve had with others to guide our approach. In some cases, managers have inherited a performance management system and don’t know if it’s right or how to make changes.
We can therefore understand why performance management was a significant area of concern within ‘requires improvement’ and ‘inadequate inspection’ reports in both the summer and autumn term 2017. One in eight reports in the summer, and one in 11 in the autumn, highlighted the need to take a closer look at performance management arrangements. These were the common issues:
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