If you had to distill and identify just two, simple guiding principles that underpin the most successful school corporate cultures, it may well be these:
- Continuously expect the highest standards of integrity, authenticity and professionalism from yourself and your colleagues.
- Be compassionate. Behind the face of every one of your colleagues, is a personal struggle that you will never fully understand. The struggles of some are bigger than others’, but we all have them. Whilst we aim to be at our best at all times, because we are human, we cannot be.
Successful cultures don’t rely on us being at our best – all the time. They rely on us turning up and doing our best – all the time – despite our struggles.
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