12 Principles for Developing Policy
During a career spanning more than 30 years working across the schooling sectors, I’ve come across more than my fair share of good, bad...
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David Bartlett
- Sep 2, 2022
- 2 min
Performing a staff wellbeing audit
Ensuring staff wellbeing is monitored and issues addressed in a timely and sensitive manner is a key leadership skill. It's easy for...
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David Bartlett
- May 12, 2022
- 2 min
Becoming a great Principal
Have you found yourself appointed as a new Principal of a school community and are wondering what to do now ? School Principals...
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David Bartlett
- Sep 22, 2021
- 2 min
Authentic Conversations
The Problem All organisations have a culture that is impacted actively or inactively by the behaviours of people in the organisation, and...
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- Mar 26, 2021
- 4 min
School Board Meeting Operations
A small, but key group of volunteers in any school are the members of the School Board. While Board Members are often seen as the...
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- Feb 2, 2021
- 5 min
Seeking God’s will in board meetings
One of the challenges for boards of Christian organisations, whether they be churches, Christian schools or some other type of Christian...
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David Bartlett
- Nov 7, 2019
- 5 min
When Governance Breaks!
The Problem Over a career of almost 30 years in the Not for Profit (NFP) sector working with Schools, Churches and charities of all...
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- Jun 28, 2016
- 2 min
Preparing for the Commonwealth Census
Each year in August, Australian Non Government Schools complete a Census for the Commonwealth Government, from which many schools derive...
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David Bartlett
- Mar 18, 2016
- 3 min
Developing Trusted Leadership
As leaders, we want to be trusted. We need to be trusted if we want our team, our organisation, to come on the journey with us. What is...
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- Nov 20, 2015
- 1 min
Reducing loan interest expense
Interest rates on loans are really low at the moment, but they can still be a major expense for many schools and non profits. Here are a...
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David Bartlett
- Aug 31, 2015
- 3 min
Creating a Culture of Trust
So you have declared ‘trust’ as one of your values. Great start. You’ve put it on your website, on posters in the lunchroom, you’ve...
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David Bartlett
- Aug 30, 2015
- 2 min
Building Budgets
This is the time of year that many of our clients are working on their budgets for next year. Some organisations struggle with how to get...
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- Aug 30, 2015
- 1 min
Governance – Role of the Chair
It is easy to underestimate the importance of the role of the Board Chair beyond simply making sure that the Board sticks to the agenda....
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David Bartlett
- May 26, 2015
- 3 min
Purchasing Policies
Internal controls in the form of procurement or purchasing policies help organisations prevent mistakes and fraud. Clear and consistent...
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David Bartlett
- May 26, 2015
- 2 min
School Growth – Embedding your message
You have developed a good elevator pitch but now you need to embed it in the minds of all your ambassadors. Your elevator pitch is a...
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David Bartlett
- May 26, 2015
- 1 min
Leadership Blindspots
Good leaders become great by skilfully managing their own vulnerabilities. The role of blind spots is to mediate between the poles of...
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David Bartlett
- Feb 27, 2015
- 1 min
7 strategies for more productive non-profit board meetings
In a recent article by Joe Garecht from thefundraisingauthority.com seven strategies are offered to make board meetings more productive...
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David Bartlett
- Oct 21, 2013
- 1 min
10 Best Decisions a Leader can make
The 10 Best Decisions a Leader Can Make by Bill Farrell. Many of the following items sound obvious but are important for leaders to be...
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