by Amy | Aug 3, 2026 | COMMUNIC8, Culture by Design, Leadership Behaviours, Power of 8
Ask any leadership team in FE what’s holding their culture back and nine times out of ten, someone in the room will say “communication.” We need better communication. More cascade meetings. A tighter newsletter. A clearer intranet.I’ve sat in...
by Amy | Jun 26, 2026 | Culture by Design, Power of 8
There’s a phrase doing the rounds in the FE sector right now that I can’t shake: “a very low pay award, possibly zero, may be the limit of affordability.”Those words came from the Association of Colleges’ employment policy committee...
by Amy | Jun 16, 2026 | CULTIV8, Culture by Design, EVALU8, Leadership Behaviours, Power of 8
The question the Skills White Paper should have asked and what Gallup’s latest data tells us about why it matters. The government’s post-16 Skills White Paper, published last October, included a proposal that turned more than a few heads. Ministers want to...
by Amy | Jun 9, 2026 | CULTIV8, Leadership Behaviours, Power of 8
The last piece I wrote was about what gets ignored — and how the things leaders walk past quietly become the culture. A few of you got in touch after reading it. The question that kept coming back, in slightly different words each time, was this: Right. So what does...
by Amy | Aug 8, 2025 | Leadership Behaviours, Power of 8
After fifteen years inside the systems most of my clients now work in, further education, skills, higher education, apprenticeship and workforce development, I started ELEV8 because I’d watched the same patterns repeat across organisation after organisation, and...
