Strategic consultancy / Staff Baseline
How confident are your staff?
You may be looking to deploy, or have recently deployed, new devices and platforms. Whether they improve teaching depends on how confident staff feel using them, and most schools have no clear measure of that.
The Staff Baseline works for a single school and for trusts and groups of schools. It gives you the answer in about two weeks, and a trust sees its results across the whole trust and school by school.
- About two weeksfrom agreeing the questions to the report
- About five minutesfor each member of staff, on any device
- One school or a whole trustwith results for each school
An example dashboard. The trust, the schools and the answers are made up.
What you get.
£1,250 plus VAT for one school, and £250 for each further school. Everything is included, from the questions to the written report.
A five-minute survey
With questions written for your setting.
A link for each school
Carrying your logo. No names and no sign-in.
Response rates as it runs
For each school, so you can nudge where you need to.
A dashboard on the day it closes
Every school and every area on one page, with results by role, phase and experience.
A written report for leaders
What the results show and where support should go, with clear next steps for CPD.
The data protection paperwork
A privacy notice for staff and a data agreement, ready for your data protection officer. Azimuth is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
How it runs.
We agree the questions and the dates
An initial conversation, then a draft survey for you to check.
The survey is open
For the agreed length of time, and you watch the response rates.
The dashboard opens
On the day the survey closes, and a written report for leaders follows.
Know where support should go before you plan the training.
The results show which areas, which schools and which groups of staff need help, so CPD time and money go where they will count.
What leaders see.
The dashboard opens on the day the survey closes. These are four of its views, from an example trust with made-up answers.
- 2.7 out of 5overall confidence
- 76%of staff answered
- Accessibilitythe area with most room to grow
- Time to planthe biggest barrier, named by 65%
Confidence against use
Where staff feel confident and are not yet using it, which is where a little support goes furthest.
Confidence at a glance, and what would help
Each area ranked, beside the barriers staff name most often.
Question by question
Every statement, with the full spread of answers and not only the average.
Every school on one page.
A trust sees each school beside the others, area by area, so support goes where it is needed.
Repeat the survey later in the year and the dashboard shows what has changed.
Five minutes, on any device.
Staff open the link for their school and answer on a phone, a tablet or a laptop. There is nothing to install and no account to create.
Staff answer honestly.
No names and no sign-in. Nobody at the school or trust can read what an individual said.
Leaders see results for groups, never for people, and staff are told so on the first screen.
Why not run your own survey?
A form tool will collect answers for free. The work is in everything around it, and that work usually falls to a senior leader.
Questions you can trust
Written by someone who has led digital strategy in schools, following good practice in survey design, and made bespoke for your setting.
Answers staff give freely
The survey is run from outside the school. Nobody you employ can see who said what, and staff are told so on the first screen.
Results without the spreadsheet
Every school, role and phase is set out on the day the survey closes. No one on your team spends a weekend building charts.
A report that says what to do
You receive a written report with clear next steps for CPD, from someone who can tell you what the numbers mean for a school.
This is a managed survey. A managed staff survey from an HR consultancy starts at about £1,500 for a small organisation, and it comes without the knowledge of schools.
Questions.
Why not use Microsoft Forms?
You can, and Forms collects answers well. With the Azimuth Staff Baseline, the questions are written by someone who has led this work in schools. Nobody at your school can read an individual’s answers. Results by school, role and phase are ready the day the survey closes. You also get a written report with next steps, and you can repeat the survey later to see what has changed.
How much staff time does it take?
We aim for about five minutes for each member of staff. Short surveys are finished by more people and answered with more care, and the length is agreed with you. Leaders need one short call to agree the questions and an hour or so to read the report.
Who holds the data?
Azimuth holds the answers on your behalf, as your data processor, under a signed data agreement. Azimuth Partners Ltd is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office, reference ZC296425.
Can we change the questions?
Yes. The questions are drafted to follow good practice in survey design, and then made bespoke for your setting, your devices and your platforms.
What does it cost?
£1,250 plus VAT for one school, and £250 plus VAT for each further school. A trust of eight schools pays £3,000 plus VAT.
What happens to very small groups?
Every answer counts. All responses feed the overall results for the school and the trust. What is hidden is the separate breakdown for any group of fewer than five people, so nobody can be picked out by their role or phase in a small school.
Find out where your staff stand.
Twenty minutes on a call is enough to see the survey working and decide whether it suits your school or trust.