Ablaze Programmes

Share Business Skills

The central aim of any school is to provide the finest education possible for its pupils and ensure that they leave formal education with the skills for life and employability that will enable them to maximise their full potential.

For a school to operate successfully and achieve its aims, it needs an effective organisation and strong infrastructure, just like any productive business.

There are many skills that business can share with education including Management, Marketing, HR, Project and Change Management, Finance - and business can learn from schools too!

Aims

· To help schools operate at maximum efficiency

· Support school leadership with new skills

· Enable effective project management and decision making

· Encourage young people to use decision making processes

· Share business and education experience for the benefit of both

 

Key Points

· Schools generally don't know what a business can offer and business does not know what the school could benefit from.

· Using a process to identify needs and create broader understanding enables support to be focused.

· As a partnership develops more and more departments within a business can be involved if they wish

· Head teachers and business mentors benefit each other through a broader perspective on issues

· Young people can also benefit from learning business skills

 

How the programme works

· ABLAZE brokers a partnership between a school or group of schools

· The schools identify a critical issue that they need to resolve and feel that business support would help

· Business and School are trained together using Six Sigma methodology

· Schools learn how not to leap to solutions but look further into root causes

· Communication planning and stakeholder inclusion is encouraged

· As the relationship builds, school may want to invite business into leadership meetings to share their experience or a member of a business may want to join the governing body

· The business will have unique skills that it can share depending on their industry focus and the needs of the school

Training and support

ABLAZE has a professional suite of training materials for the Six Sigma training which revolves around five steps. Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve and Control. They can also offer one off workshops facilitated by business depending on demand.

For a school to provide the best educational opportunities, it not only needs inspirational teachers but a super effective organisation and infrastructure. Businesses can add value by sharing their management and leadership skills.