Taking the guesswork out of school workforce strategy & decision making.
PeopleBench is a school workforce improvement company. Through our online platform, our Community of Practice, and our advisory services, we’re helping schools to Build Better School Workforces.
One minute you’re a teacher, the next you’re in charge of everything.
Research tells us that being a school leader can be one of the most rewarding (and challenging!) career moves an educator can make.
When the workforce accounts for 80% of the cost of running most schools, Principals, Deputies and Business Managers are responsible for spending their staffing budgets wisely. Most receive no training or support in workforce strategy or strategic Human Resource Management.
You don’t need to go it alone. Let us support you on your school leadership journey.
School leaders need more than good intuition.
The education sector is great at collecting and storing data. Turning it into insights that improve decision making (and your impact on student outcomes) is the key. To build better school workforces, you can’t rely on intuition alone, you need a trusted evidence base to inform and defend your decision making.
PeopleBench provides an evidence base & tools to inform your school workforce strategy and decision making.
Meet the PeopleBench Platform.
What our clients say.
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In education we’ve had growing awareness of the importance of wellbeing for our staff in education. We are professionals at looking after our student wellbeing. We always speak about it, we consider it in all of our decisions. There’s a step before student wellbeing, which is looking after those adults who have that responsibility.
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The whole educational environment is changing. I was really interested to not only find out how our staff were doing, but also to be able to do something about it.
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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.
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“It provided opportunities for us to have very clear, identified goals. So, it doesn’t become a side project. It’s actually embedded with what we’re doing across the school with our Annual Improvement Plan.”
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“It’s not just … a top-down approach. [Staff] are seeing that we’re in this together and wellbeing is everybody’s business. That’s the message we’re getting back. It’s not just us making them feel better about their workplace; it’s a shared responsibility.”