Our first COO network of 2024 provides key updates to keep you planning ahead successfully as a leader of operations. Where could (and should) your time be spent over the coming year? What priorities do your peers have that align or differ with your own? How will you ensure you make time to learn from others and draw on evolving intelligence to inform your role? All of these questions and more will be discussed at our upcoming network meeting.

We will begin this first network of 2024 with time for you to connect with each other and discuss ‘what’s on your plate’ for the year ahead, as you consider in small groups, where your time as trust leaders will likely need to focus in the weeks and months ahead. This time together is unique to a national network of professionals in similar roles, who understand the challenges and opportunities of a trust context. Following on from this, we will spend some time (led by Forum Strategy’s CEO, Alice Gregson) reflecting on the ever-evolving role of a COO, drawing on recent national research and intelligence about the role and it’s significant differences with other executive level roles. We will reflect on whether this aligns with COOs’ experiences across the network and any learning that might be taken from the research, to be applied back in your trust. Following this, Paul Crittenden, leading thinker in wellbeing and performance, will spend some time reflecting on some of the challenges of prioritising wellbeing as a COO and the strategies you might draw on to address this.

Our partners at The Key will then move into an input from Steph Glenister, Lead Content Editor, who will outline the changing landscape of school-level needs and challenges. Using real usage and search data from The Key, Steph will analyse year-on-year and term-by-term comparisons to provide COOs with a deep dive into the key challenges facing schools across the country. And finally, our partners at Wrigleys Solicitors, will provide an update on the incoming legislation around flexible working (due to come in from April 2024) and consider the implications for trusts and for COOs specifically.

Agenda
9.30am Welcome
9.35am Time to connect as a network – ‘What’s on your plate?’
10.05am What is research telling us about the evolving role of the COO? – Alice Gregson, CEO, Forum Strategy; How do we prioritise wellbeing as COOs? – Paul Crittenden, wellbeing & performance expert
11am The changing national landscape of school-level needs and challenges and what this means for trust COOs; Steph Glenister, Lead Content Editor, The Key
11.30am Updated legislation on flexible working and it’s implications for COOs; Wrigleys Solicitors
11.55am Final comments and close

Please note The Key and Wrigleys Solicitors are part of a paid for partnership with Forum Strategy. When selecting our partners we do so with careful reference to their expertise and their ethos and values.

To book onto this event, you must be a current member of Forum Strategy’s National COO Network. Please use the form below to book your place:

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