Everyone Succeeds provides a shared language of leadership that strengthens alignment, improves consistency and raises expectations across all schools in a trust. When implemented well, it allows every school to grow individually while benefiting from a common approach to professional learning. Whether to implement behaviours at a trust or school level will be a decision individual trusts will know best.

Why it works at trust level

• Creates a consistent framework for leadership development across all schools
• Builds shared language and expectations that support mobility and collaboration
• Allows trust leaders to identify strengths and needs across the organisation
• Ensures accountability conversations draw on shared reference points
• Strengthens culture while allowing each school to maintain its identity

A streamlined trust-wide model

• June: Trust introduces the framework to senior leaders across all schools. Leaders explore the cycle and the behaviours.
• September: Schools begin the first Lead phase with trust-selected behaviours that align with trust priorities.
• November: Schools complete the diagnostics together. Trust leaders gain a clear picture of leadership strengths and needs across the organisation.
• December: Schools begin the second Learn phase, which blends trust behaviours with individual behaviours identified in combined diagnostics.
• January: Schools begin the second Lead phase, strengthening both trust alignment and personal leadership development.

How trusts use the insights

• Targeted CPD mapped to trust-wide behaviour priorities
• Coaching cycles linked to the 54 behaviours
• Cross-school mentoring where strengths match needs
• Executive leaders model the cycle and use it for improvement conversations
• System-level insight on leadership capability, strengths and succession planning