Jackie Christie
Education leadership consultant, Promoting Excellence Ltd
- Promoting Excellence Ltd, education leadership consultants
- Specialist in inclusive and adaptive teaching
What the work has looked like
Jackie Christie is an education leadership consultant with Promoting Excellence Ltd, supporting mainstream schools and colleges to meet the needs of learners with SEND alongside all other learners through inclusive, adaptive practice.
Courses by Jackie Christie
Leading and developing people
Coaching and Mentoring
Develop practical coaching and mentoring skills: understand the difference between the two, discover your own default style, and practise the listening, questioning and feedback skills that help colleagues find their own solutions.
Leading and developing people
Delegation and Empowerment
A practical course on delegation and empowerment for anyone leading or managing others. You will explore what good delegation looks like, assess your own habits honestly, and build the confidence and skills to develop the people around you.
Wellbeing
Emotional Health and Wellbeing
Explore what wellbeing means at work, how to recognise and build a genuinely healthy workplace, and the leadership behaviours and personal habits that sustain wellbeing over time. Includes practical self-assessments, a real-world scenario on setting boundaries, and a course-closing commitment to your own wellbeing.
Communication and influence
Managing Difficult Conversations: Master Level (Part Two)
The Master Level follow-on to Managing Difficult Conversations (Part One): managing conversations with your own manager, exercising judgement in real workplace scenarios, and reading the emotional radar for anger, tears and hard boundaries. Completing this course, alongside Part One, certifies you as a Promoting Excellence Master Practitioner.
Communication and influence
Managing Difficult Conversations: Part One
A practical introduction to handling difficult conversations at work: what makes them hard, why we avoid them, how to manage conflict well, and how to hold a conversation that actually resolves something. Built around real workplace scenarios, ranking exercises, a self-assessment and case studies. Completing this course certifies you at Promoting Excellence Introductory Level, and leads into the Master Level Part Two course.
Personal effectiveness
Self-awareness and Understanding
Build a grounded understanding of your own self-awareness and emotional intelligence, using the Johari Window, Goleman's four domains of EI and a leadership behaviour diagnostic to see yourself more clearly. Across six modules you will turn self-knowledge into concrete next steps, including a decision scenario on staying in control under pressure.
Personal effectiveness
Self-Confidence and Assertiveness
Build genuine self-confidence and learn to be assertive without tipping into aggression or passivity. Across seven modules you will explore what confidence and assertiveness really mean, practise handling difficult people and situations through honest self-checks along the way, and finish with a personal commitment to keep building on it.
Teaching and learning
Subject and Curriculum Leadership
A practical course for subject and curriculum leaders covering why the role matters, the foundations of excellent practice, getting the curriculum right, building a winning team, and achieving and sustaining excellence over time. Includes honest self-assessments against real leadership behaviours and a closing personal commitment for the year ahead.
Personal effectiveness
Time Management and Prioritisation
Learn to assess honestly how you currently manage your time, understand the difference between urgent and important, and build practical techniques and habits for prioritising your workload well.