Headteachers & Deputy Headteachers

Leading a school can feel relentless. Supervision gives you space to step back, clarify your vision, and lead with confidence.

How Supervision Helps:

• Identifies your core values and mission so you can lead with clarity.
• Helps you notice where you might be getting in your own way.
• Supports you in articulating your vision to your team in a way that builds trust and respect.
• Provides tools to manage difficult relationships and resolve conflict constructively.

Great Starting Points:

• Staff Wellness Action Plan (SWAP) – a confidential tool to understand what helps you feel successful and fulfilled.
• Communication & Interaction Course – especially Module 1 (Being a Reflective Practitioner) and Module 8 (Coaching Structure: The GROW Model).

DSLs (Designated Safeguarding Leads)

DSL work is emotionally and cognitively demanding. Supervision provides a thinking partnership to help you hold complexity with calm authority.

How Supervision Helps:

• Gives protected time to unpack difficult cases and explore “what’s getting stuck.”
• Strengthens decision making with evidence based frameworks you can use as a legal audit trail.
• Lets you rehearse tough conversations and presentations in a safe space.
• Supports emotional steadiness, helping you stay composed in high-pressure situations.

Great Starting Points:

• Supervisee Handbook – includes preparation proformas to make supervision focused and productive.
• Foundations of Supervision – Module 8 (The Drama Triangle) and Module 9 (Cycle of Change) are especially useful.
• Communication & Interaction – Modules 5–7 (curiosity, listening with positive intent, and asking better questions).

SENCOs (Special Educational Needs Coordinators)

Balancing compliance, support, and advocacy can feel overwhelming. Supervision helps you process challenges and keep your focus on what matters most for children.

How Supervision Helps:

• Provides a confidential, non-judgemental space to reflect on decisions and their impact.
• Supports your confidence in applying SEND knowledge and explaining decisions to others.
• Builds resilience and helps you manage emotional load and boundaries.

Great Starting Points:

• Staff Wellness Action Plan (SWAP) for SENCOs – to track your wellbeing and plan for balance.
• Communication & Interaction Course – Modules 5–7 to refine your questioning and communication skills.

Heads of Service & Senior Leaders

When you’re responsible for driving outcomes across multiple teams, you need more than just strategy you need a shared language and a consistent approach to complex conversations.

How Our Courses Help:

• Morrison’s 4x4 Model provides a practical, structured way to explore problems, clarify priorities, and agree actions that stick.
• The Foundations of Supervision course gives leaders a common framework for reflective discussion, making team conversations more focused and impactful.
• The Communication & Interaction course sharpens skills in reading group dynamics, contracting expectations, and asking the right questions essential for aligning large teams and resolving tension constructively.

This shared framework means everyone from senior leaders to middle managers approaches challenges with the same mindset, leading to more consistent decisions and a healthier organisational culture.

Leadership Succession & Emerging Leaders

Future leaders need more than technical skill they need tools to handle complexity, build trust, and stay grounded under pressure.

How Our Courses Help:

• Foundations of Supervision introduces reflective practice early, helping emerging leaders develop the confidence to make defensible decisions.
• Morrison’s 4x4 Model becomes a portable toolkit they can carry into future roles, helping them approach difficult conversations systematically.
• Communication & Interaction equips them with a shared language and practical techniques for questioning, listening, and contracting, so they can manage difficult conversations with confidence.

This prepares them not just for the next step in leadership, but for the most demanding roles they’ll face in the future.