Our Guiding Principles

Customise to Context

We know that one tool or resource, off-the-shelf, will not fully meet the unique and nuanced needs of any school or region. In our partnership, we are constantly collaborating on and designing resources to ensure that the skills, tools, and practices of leadership are fully customised to your leadership style and school needs.

Clarify the Vision

We believe strongly at Mantra that the most effective school leaders have a crystal clear sense of the end-goal in each moment of their school day and school year. Therefore, we help leaders to clarify their vision for both pupil and faculty goals and to maximise their time and leadership to ensure their teams achieve success.

Walk the Talk

At Mantra our partnership does not end once the planning is done. Instead, we embark on the leadership journey alongside our partners. To ensure that our partners achieve success, we are ready to join your team in whichever capacity needed – whether as a participant, co-leader, or model leader.

Our Partnership and Coaching Helps Leaders To:

— Maximise how they use time to drive results

We work to enhance each leader’s ability to strategise how they spend their time in their school(s), model leadership, coach others to ensure an alignment in vision and practice, and sustain high expectations for pupils and faculty

— Follow the results

We help clarify each leader’s end-goal for pupil learning and school community success, in order to ensure that all leadership decisions and actions are improving achievement and removing obstacles to success

— Lead on the frontlines of learning

We guide leader skill development to lead on the frontlines in the school to ensure success in every moment – whether modelling for faculty or coaches, leading whole-school community moments, or connecting with pupils to maximise their talents

— Set a strategic vision

We support each leader, organisation, or region in the assessment of current successes and challenges, naming of goals and metrics, and outlining of priorities to ensure future growth

— Develop a culture of feedback and growth

We support leaders to build a culture of feedback and coaching, through fine-tuned design of training and follow-up monitoring to guide success with positive and productive feedback