{"id":6324,"date":"2014-06-17T11:21:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T11:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/?p=6324"},"modified":"2014-06-17T11:21:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T11:21:38","slug":"succession-planning-more-important-in-education-than-at-any-time-in-the-last-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/succession-planning-more-important-in-education-than-at-any-time-in-the-last-five-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Succession planning more important in education than at any time in the last five years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senior teachers say succession planning is now more important to schools than it was in 2009, according to the latest research from Randstad Education, the specialist recruiter.\u00a0 In a poll of senior teachers undertaken by Randstad Education, 43 per cent of respondents said succession planning was now more important than it was five years ago.<\/p>\n

Succession planning focuses on identifying potential future leaders to fill key positions.\u00a0 In a climate of talent shortage and lack of confidence in leadership potential, there is renewed interest in succession planning.\u00a0 59 per cent of senior teachers said it is set to become a higher priority in the future \u2013 with none suggesting it was going to become less important.<\/p>\n

Despite this, the results suggested 35 per cent of schools are failing to undertake succession planning of any kind.\u00a0 A similar poll of 100 HR directors working in the private sector revealed 21 per cent of employers across the UK fail to undertake succession planning.<\/p>\n

\"Jenny-Rollinson\"<\/a>Jenny Rollinson, managing director of Randstad Education, said: \u201cSound succession planning gives teachers a strong sense of having a clearly defined future within the school.\u00a0 This is a powerful retention tool which taps into career fulfilment.\u00a0 With escalating shortages at senior and middle level teaching professionals, it\u2019s more important than ever to take all opportunities to retain the best and brightest teachers.\u00a0 By ignoring its potential, senior teams and boards of governors alike are missing a trick. However, CEOs in the private sector have a luxury that Head Teachers simply don\u2019t have \u2013 the support of an HR department\u201d<\/p>\n

However, amongst those schools that do succession plan, 43 per cent of senior teachers said they focus their succession planning on the top three levels of management and below \u2013 compared to the UK average of 37 per cent.<\/p>\n

She continued: \u201cWhen schools do succession planning \u2013 which admittedly is not as often as they should \u2013 schools do it well.\u00a0 Education professionals look further into the future when they recruit and when they promote. They don\u2019t just look at qualifications and skills, they look at staff\/pupil\/parent relationship building skills and the right fit.\u00a0 We suspect that when it comes to hiring people who look like they might make good heads of department, or assistant heads, senior teams are using some of the skills they have honed in the classroom, rooting out potential in their students.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senior teachers say succession planning is now more important to schools than it was in 2009, according to the latest research from Randstad Education, the specialist recruiter.\u00a0 In a poll of senior teachers undertaken by Randstad Education, 43 per cent of respondents said succession planning was now more important than it was five years ago. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-recruitment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6327,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6324\/revisions\/6327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}