My talk to naht

2. Thinking Like a Management
Consultant
Dr. Joe O’Mahoney
joeomahoney@gmail.com

3. Introductions

4. Agenda
1. What does a consultant do?
2. How would one consult a school?
3. Project management.
NAHT
4. It’s about the people.
Consultant
Thinking
5. Example Projects.

5. What does a
consultant
do?

10. A Consultancy Methodology
1. Goals?
2. How are you doing? - Benchmarking.
3. What works? Review the evidence.
4. Program governance
5. Project prioritisation.
6. Project delivery.
Project identification.

11. Goals
please!

12. What makes
a difference?

17. Like consultancies,
schools are about
the people…….

18. Soft leadership for good
performers
Mentoring, coaching &
rotation
Training on the job
Professional development
Listening…….

19. “too many schools are run like
police states”
“give good teachers more
freedom”
“get out of the office and into
the corridors”
“support teachers’ discipline”
“say thank you more often”

21. Two Project Examples
• Process Engineering
– Top down.
– Identifying end-to-end processes.
– Walking the process through.
– Shortening, automating, adding value.
• Quality Management
– Bottom up.
– Enabling & supporting the front-line.
– Micro-level changes
– Internal customers

22. Review
• A people business
• Evidence for what works
• Project orientation
• Process engineering
• Quality management