Course description
The Aspiring School Business Managers Program provides participants with job-ready knowledge and skills to undertake a School Business Manager (SBM) role. The course introduces participants to key elements of leadership and management, basic department finance and budget processes and platforms used in school settings and provides school-based experiences for participants to observe the daily-relational demands of the SBM. A strengths-based personal survey contributes to understanding self and others in the context of how to lead and manage others in the workplace.
This program includes 3 short online sessions (2 hours each), up to 4 half-days shadowing an experienced SBM on the job, and one final full-day workshop which is face-to-face.
Course outcomes
By the end of this program participants will be able to demonstrate their growth in knowledge and skills and will:
- Gain understanding of self and others (Relationship Awareness Theory)
- Understand that effective business managers are both leaders and managers
- Understand the complexity and diversity of the SBM’s role
- Know how to create and maintain work conditions for self and others using relationship awareness theory approaches
- Know how to enact leadership and management attributes to build teams, set direction, achieve goals and respond to change initiatives
- Know how to perform a range of SBM-specific tasks.