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The Guvnor

Colin Campbell
by Colin Campbell on 27/05/19 18:00
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For people who have read this blog long enough, will remember that I used to be a School Governor for a primary school, the one that my children attended locally, and my son is about to finish.

I rose all the way up the ranks to the vice chair of Governors, only to oversee aquires and improvement of OFSTED inspection, which was a complete disaster.

I offered my resignation, but it wasn’t accepted and then I helped the school become apart of a multi academy trust to watch it flourish and go from strength to strength to be extraordinary, but I had left by the time it got god.

During my time as a School Governor for the primary school I learned much about the ability to run a million-pound budget, because budgeting in primary schools has to be absolutely extraordinary in order to survive.

I watched people try to build leadership teams and try to put leadership through an organisation of experienced people, and then I left when the school was aside fitting.

Funnily enough, this part of the process when entering the trust I interviewed the headteacher and principle of the secondary school that my children would go to, just up the road.

He had and has a fierce reputation and in fact in two meetings we went toe to toe on some significant issues, neither of us backing down from our positions (It was actually really enjoyable) to his eternal credit and to my disbelief, he phoned me after that and asked me to join the Governors at the secondary school and after a year of being pestered, I did.

The secondary school, where my children go to are now the centre of our 15 school multi academy trust, with a budget of something like, 35 million in a bizarre turn of events I find myself a governor in charge of finance, for the secondary school (most people I know will find that hilarious) a school with a budget of nearly £10 million.

The difference between the two organisations is amazing, but on Monday night I sat on the interview panel for a new headteacher for the secondary school, as the headteacher who had appointed me has now become the chief executive of the £35 million trust.

So, to get to the point of this and what I’m doing is all about.

If you knew anyone who is a CEO of any size of reasonable company, they will probably set as a non-executive director on at least two other boards, they do that to get experience in different fields of work and experience in different areas and that’s a little bit of what it’s like to a Governor.

In the middle of winter, when it’s dark and raining, I don’t want to go to the Governors meeting, I want to go home and light the fire and watch a movie with my kids, but I have had the privilege 7of watching £1 million pound organisations succeed and fail and succeed again, I have watched key leaders, not lead and be fired, I’ve watched people build in leadership teams and then seen it again in a £10 million business, which is hugely successful and outstanding OFSTED.

(We aim to have our dental practice outstanding at dental OFSTED – an imaginary qualification, as part of our improvement process)

I have now been privileged to sit on that board of Governors and learn from some talented people, about strategic running of a £10 million organisation and now having seen it turn into a £35 million organisation runs individual £10 million organisations.

It’s not the parent-teachers association, it’s something completely different to that, its strategic financial management and direction, and planning and human assets and resources’ and standards and quality assurance.

Pretty much all the stuff you need, to be able to grow your dental practice to beyond the size of a corner shop.

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