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 | Jul 20, 2026 | Culture by Design, Leadership Behaviours
Here’s a line I say to almost every leadership team I work with in FE and skills: if the only evidence you can point to for your culture is the evidence you’d show an inspector, you don’t have a culture. You have a performance.I don’t say that...
by Amy | Jul 14, 2026 | COMMUNIC8, Culture by Design, EVALU8, Leadership Behaviours
I’ve sat in more “you said, we did” meetings than I can count, and here’s what I’ve noticed: most of them should be called “you said, we noted.”There’s a pattern I see walking into almost every provider I work with,...
by Amy | Jul 9, 2026 | Culture by Design, Leadership Behaviours
For ten years, I heard the same word used to describe the organisation I worked for: FAMILY. It was in speeches, induction packs, leaving cards, the language leaders reached for whenever they wanted people to give more than the job required. I have a family of my own....
by Amy | Jul 8, 2026 | Culture by Design, EVALU8, Leadership Behaviours
Hear me out: you don’t actually know what your culture is like This is an opinion. Not a study. Not a stat. Just something I’ve been chewing on after enough years in enough organisations to trust my own pattern-spotting over most surveys I’ve seen....
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...
