Little Effort, Big Rewards: How to work less and do more (Coaching)

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At the end of the school year, if the children behave perfectly throughout the entire school year, receiving no sanctions of any kind, they will receive as a reward one of those bikes.

Others won’t say this, but I will: reasonable adjustment destroys positive discipline and destroys effective schools,” he argues. At Hillcrest Academy, one of the TGAT’s primary schools, the walls are bursting with bright, proud displays of not just the children’s work, but pictures of the children themselves. The school motto: ‘With courage we dare to achieve beyond expectation’ is big and bold in the reception hall, and hanging from the ceiling in the canteen are two bikes. Most of the big supermarkets (bar Aldi) offer a loyalty scheme, and if you have not signed up or used one for a while, you may find that a lot has changed over the last year or so. For example, Asda announced in August that shoppers nationwide could access its new loyalty programme, while Morrisons announced a new scheme last year, and other supermarkets have been tweaking their offerings.

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The themes of complete consistency and clarity are immediately evident when you visit a TGAT school. All pupils know that if they do X, Y will happen. The circumstances of the incident do not matter, neither does the pupils’ past behaviour record, or home life. If you’ve got a nonchalant attitude towards uniform, then don’t come to one of our schools,” he states. Sparks customers are sometimes offered a free treat such as Percy Pig sweets, a box of chocolates or a candle.

On the other side of the city is one of the Trust’s secondary schools: The Ruth Gorse Academy. Like Hillcrest, Ruth Gorse prides itself on being multicultural. A huge map of the world indicating where pupils were born, and have travelled from, has a prominent place in the entrance hall, and pictures of the entire school community are everywhere. This nose-to-the-grindstone culture within these types of jobs has existed in some form for years, says William D Cohan, author of a best-selling book on the history of Goldman Sachs, Money and Power, and who also worked on Wall Street for 17 years. Enjoy great savings and redeem AirAsia flights with BIG Points. Get up to 90% savings on flights during our monthly BIG Final Call Sales. Or redeem flights based on flight hours with BIG Fixed Points available all year long. These flights are only redeemable with BIG Points and exclusively for BIG Members only. Sir John believes if you visit these schools, you will see an environment where behaviour is as good as it gets. And he has a challenge for you:

When it comes to praising the pupils, in both primary and secondary, a lot of focus is given to the importance of procuring ‘credits’. This level of engagement is not only impressive when you consider the circumstances and disruption around the COVID-19 pandemic, but also due to the fact that so many of its workforce don’t use a computer as part of their day-to-day role. That means a lot of people are choosing to engage with the ‘BIG Benefits’ platform in their own spare time. That system is essentially based on two triangles: one with rewards and one with sanctions. On each, the level of severity or size of reward increases as a student progresses up to the peak. Some students have been living the lives of ‘Elvis Presley: the Vegas Years’, and then suddenly when they arrive at our schools, a lot more is expected of them,” says Sir John. “They think they can do what they want to do, on their own terms. It’s not an adversarial thing, we don’t want to be like that.