Discovery call
A short call to understand your current cycle — where it has become compliance rather than growth, and who is involved: SLT, governors, middle leaders.
For schools and trusts · Delivered in person
Coaching-Based Appraisal & Performance Management
Replace tick-box appraisal with a coaching culture that leaders and staff actually trust — built into your existing STPCD cycle, delivered face-to-face, in your school or across your trust.
Appraisal that leaders and staff actually trust.
Most appraisal cycles satisfy the paperwork and miss the point. Objectives get set, a form gets filed, a pay recommendation gets made — and almost none of it changes what happens in a classroom.
I help schools and trusts rebuild the cycle around coaching conversations instead: the same statutory structure, the same calibration and pay-recommendation rigour, but a genuine dialogue at the centre of it rather than a form.
How it runs
Five stages, delivered face-to-face.
Each stage is in person and builds on the last — from a first conversation through to a coaching culture that sustains itself.
Diagnostic day
On site: review current documentation and objective-setting, sit in on live review conversations, and talk to a sample of staff and line managers.
Design
A coaching-based framework built into your existing STPCD cycle: revised objective-setting conversations, mid-cycle coaching, and a calibration process for pay recommendations.
Delivery
Face-to-face training for everyone who runs an appraisal conversation: coaching skills, questioning technique, calibration practice, moving from judgement to dialogue.
Embed & sustain
A light-touch, in-person return each term — or annually across a trust — to calibrate practice, coach the coaches, and catch any drift back to compliance.
How schools and trusts buy it
Priced by day, packaged by commitment.
Every engagement is scoped around your context and confirmed at the discovery call. An introductory day rate is currently held for schools and trusts booking this academic year.
Taster
1 day
Test the approach in one school before committing further.
- Diagnostic day
- Half-day leadership briefing on findings
- Written summary of a full pathway
£650
Introductory day rate — usual rate £850.
Foundation
4 days · one term
One school, ready to redesign its cycle and launch this year.
- Diagnostic day
- Design day — framework and conversation guides
- Two delivery/training days for leaders
- One check-in call before rollout
£2,600
Introductory rate, fixed for the package.
Culture Shift
8+ days · one year
A school or MAT embedding coaching-based appraisal for the long term.
- Full five-stage pathway
- Termly embed & calibration visits
- MAT pricing scales by central/cluster days, not per school
From £5,200
Introductory rate — MAT pricing quoted per trust.
Clear boundaries protect the quality of the work.
- All delivery is face-to-face, on site. Travel time and expenses are charged separately.
- The day rate is confirmed at the discovery call, then held fixed for the full package.
- MAT and trust-wide pricing is quoted per trust, not simply multiplied by school count.
- Three working days' notice is required to change a booking.
- Any statutory rights remain unaffected. Final terms are confirmed in writing before payment.
A clear next step
Ready to talk about coaching-based appraisal?
Tell me where your current cycle is now, and who is involved. I will respond with a suggested package and day rate.