The consultancy behind the courses.
The courses on Trigfell are written and taught by the consultants at Promoting Excellence Ltd, an established leadership consultancy based in Shevington. Their motto says it plainly: improving the quality of leadership, leading the improvement of quality.
Education leadership consultants with a working practice.
Promoting Excellence designs training and development programmes around the needs of individual clients and organisations, a bespoke approach its consultants bring directly to the Trigfell catalogue.
Jackie Christie
Education leadership consultant, Promoting Excellence Ltd
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.
View instructor profilePeter Rushton
Education leadership consultant, Promoting Excellence Ltd
Peter Rushton is an education leadership consultant with Promoting Excellence Ltd. He works with schools and colleges to develop inclusive cultures and excellent mixed ability teaching, drawing on the latest Ofsted framework and Education Endowment Foundation research.
View instructor profileDay and twilight workshops, tailored to your organisation.
Alongside the online courses, Promoting Excellence delivers leadership programmes in person, as day or twilight workshops designed around individual and organisational needs. Workshop themes include:
- Learning emotional intelligence
- Leadership behaviours
- Leadership styles
- Critical conversations
- Wellbeing for staff
- Team effectiveness
- Coaching and mentoring
- Managing performance
- Strategic leadership and thinking
That list is a sample, and the programmes are bespoke; if the theme you need is not shown, ask.
Their teaching, on Trigfell.
Prefer to learn at your own pace? The same consultants teach the online catalogue, with CPD hours and verifiable certificates on every course.
Leadership and strategy
Authentic Leadership
Explore what authentic leadership means in practice and use structured self-checks, a decision scenario and two real case studies to assess, and grow, just how authentic your own leadership is. Across seven modules you will work through the five I's, self-awareness, your own life story, staying true to yourself under pressure, and twelve practices for continuing to develop.
Taught by Peter Rushton
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.
Taught by Jackie Christie
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.
Taught by Jackie Christie
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.
Taught by Jackie Christie
Leading and developing people
Excellent Appraisals
A practical course on running the full staff appraisal cycle: preparing well, holding coaching-style conversations, setting SMART objectives, and giving and receiving feedback fairly. Includes a self-check on your coaching habits and a scenario on handling a defensive response to feedback.
Taught by Peter Rushton
Teaching and learning
Inclusive and Adaptive Teaching and Learning
A practical course for all staff in schools and colleges on adaptive teaching: what it means, how it differs from differentiation, how to build a holistic picture of your learners, and how to adapt moment by moment without lowering challenge. Includes a branching classroom scenario and the course's full set of self-audits, from your own teaching qualities to a twenty-five point best-practice check.
Taught by Peter Rushton