This page is for headteachers and senior leaders introducing Everyone Succeeds across a single school. It outlines the structural choices available and the model most schools adopt for sustained impact.

Option 1: Whole school and individual: hybrid model

A deliberate, school-wide approach that combines shared strategic priorities with personalised leadership development.

This model builds collective alignment first, then deepens individual ownership.

Best for:

• Sustained culture development
• Alignment with improvement priorities
• Measurable leadership growth
• Developing leaders at different stages

How it works

Phase 1. Collective alignment

Senior leaders diagnose current school priorities and select up to 3 high-leverage leadership behaviours.

These behaviours are chosen because strengthening them will unlock multiple priorities.

All leaders learn and practise these behaviours together, building shared language, consistency, and expectation.

Phase 2. Personalised development

Once shared behaviours are established, leaders complete diagnostics to identify strengths and development priorities.

Each leader then selects up to 3 personal focus behaviours, based on:

• Their current role
• The challenges they are facing
• The impact they are seeking to have

Focus behaviours are not chosen in isolation. They are shaped by real leadership demands and linked directly to current responsibilities.

Leaders continue within the Learn and Lead phases of the Everyone Succeeds Leadership Cycle, applying these behaviours to real leadership challenges through structured planning and coaching.

Phase 3. Review and Repeat

All development continues within the Everyone Succeeds Leadership Cycle.

Progress is reviewed at agreed intervals. Some behaviours become embedded as everyday practice, and new priorities are selected as the context evolves.

Leadership development becomes cyclical rather than episodic.

Resources used:

• Self Diagnostic and Combined Reports
• Book
• Workbook
• Toolkits
• Coach and Practice Frameworks
• 90 Day Planner
• Scenario Finder

Explore the Annual Leadership Cycle →

Option 2: Whole school

A structured team approach that builds shared language and behavioural consistency within a defined leadership group.

Best for:

• SLT development
• Middle leader alignment
• Structured CPD

Structure:

• Senior leaders diagnose shared priorities within the defined leadership group.
• The team selects up to 3 shared behaviours.
• Leaders enter the Learn and Lead phases of the Everyone Succeeds Leadership Cycle together.
• Reflection, modelling, and Review and Repeat are built into meeting routines.

Resources used:

• Book
• Workbook
• Coach and Practice Frameworks
• Scenario Finder

Option 3: Personalised development

A low structure starting point that allows leaders to engage with the framework independently before moving to wider implementation.

Best for:

• Trialling the framework
• Coaching conversations
• Gradual introduction

Structure:

• Leaders diagnose strengths and development priorities using the Leadership Focus Triad or Diagnostics, independently or with a coach.
• Each leader selects up to 3 personal focus behaviours.
• Leaders enter the Learn and Lead phases of the Everyone Succeeds Leadership Cycle individually.
• Practice and Review and Repeat take place through coaching and structured reflection.

Resources used:

• Coach and Practice Frameworks
• Book
• Workbook
• Leadership Focus Triad