Strategic Outlook to integrating technology in school Business

There are a lot of people introducing many trainings to school managers, teachers and owners to help them learn how to use technology in the school.

For me, from a strategic point of view, I want to see school owners and their managers sit back and breathe.

Strategically, are these trainings necessary or needed? You see, a training that's not needed shouldn't be attended.

We need to understand that technology is a leverage, a leveller and a strategy for business growth. But to effectively use technology, base on the prevailing situation we are currently in, It's important to know that there must be a strategic plan before actions are taken

How can schools hit the ground running.?

With the knowledge that technology is a strategy for business growth.

To distill this, In all our trainings and consulting works on integrating technology in the school business

We have noticed a general challenge and thus advised that schools should have edtech leadership team

This team will help plan the budget, strategies for raising funds, establish and maintaining an effective system, to drive creativity and innovation.

Its more like saying; Within this period, while we prepare for resumption, schools should design their technology goals and strategy

This is why I say, school owners should sit back and breathe

The job of the edtech team is to design the strategic plan, an over view that's documented.

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In designing an effective strategy for edtech inclusion in the school business, my experience have showed me that four key people need to be trained for effective execution

1. The students

2. The teachers

3. The parents

4. The operations team

These people have different value chains in the full execution of the process.

And a neglect In any of these four will set an imbalance and as such the results might not be effective

And obviously, one can't train the four people at the same time. It has to be one after the other

The entire plan is the operational plan which consist of the strategy and the tactics to be used

we don't want teachers who teach technology, we want teachers who use technology

And this goes to everyone of the four core people:teachers who use technology to teach, student who learn through technology, parents who are supported to support their kids learn through technology and an operations team who can provide that support for the parents, the students and the teachers.

Each of these people need a different type of knowledge or training to effectively use technology.

The kids that need to be taught needs to know how to use the different platforms introduced

The parents needs some knowledge support, and the operational team need some knowledge base to support 

But today, everyone make it seem its just teachers that need to be trained to teach the learner ( it is not just about the teachers vs the students)

Dear school owners and managers, you need to design a strategy for your edtech inclusion, only then will you know what training is needed for each of the core players and then should you get who has the capacity to train.

If you need support in designing your strategic plan for your technology integration, kindly reach out to me. I and my team will be glad to help and support.

I believe in your success.

IEBelieve

EdupreneurNg

or what do you think,

5 STRATEGIES TO REVIVE A DYING OR FAILING BUSINESS

My experience as an enterprise strategist has afforded me the opportunity to see many businesses fail as well as succeed. We have been involved in helping some business owners properly shutdown their operations.

In totality, I have seen business fail, investment lost, years of labour gone down the drain

This article is to offer some basic strategies to help any entrepreneur going through business crisis to find ways on how to revive their dying or failing businesses.

if your business is dying as evident in no sales, low staff morale, low turn over etc. then these steps and or strategies will be of help.

what must you do if or when your business is failing or dying?

1. Analyse the business operations.
   
   there are several tools that can be used to analyse business operations, among which are: SPIN analysis, SWOT-SCUP analysis, DOSSIER LOOP etc. Analysing the business will make you know what area needs attention or working on. 
2. 30% tradeoff.                      
                                  
   The concept of the 30% trade off is to reduce staff number by 30% or reduce staff salary by 30%.
   
   Business in crisis need to re-channel resources and as such trimming operations through either staff reduction or salary reduction is a key step.
3. Focus on marketing and training of the workforce.
   
   A failing business is a business that isn't making sales, no finance, low staff morale etc As a strategy to get back on your feet, you have to invest on marketing and staff capacity training focusing on the results of the analysis.
   
   This means that, it is not just about the training but focused trainings to meet the need and challenge of the business.
4. Roll-up your sleeves and set new goals.
   
   As the entrepreneur you have to roll up your sleeves and get dirty again if you are getting used to the office. Don't expect your staff to lead the change when you just ditch out orders.
   
   get your hands dirty and set big hairy and audacious goals, then let these goals drive the organization.
5. Engage a consultant or consulting firm

your analysis and the new goals should tell you what area of focus you want. Hence engage a consultant with experience in reviving your failing business.

This consultant should even start with you in the analysis stage of your operations.

In all, I believe in your success

if you need a consulting firm or consultant to help you with your business analysis, set and execute the new goals, then reach out to me.

IEBelieve

Enterprise Strategist
+2348093759013

HOW TO ENGAGE, MANAGE AND MAXIMISE YOUR STAFF TRAINING

Many business wners today don't train their staff because the knowledge garnered from the trainings are almost not used.

This is understandable because the new knowledge gained is alien and people are comfortable with norms.

When a training is conducted and the knowledge acquired is not used. It's entirely the fault of the management team.

As a business, the trainings that doesn't solve a challenge or meet a need should not be attended and when the staff attends a training,

It must have internal systems to check the knowledge garnered by creating questionnaires, feedback forms to be filled by the staff that have attended these trainings.

This questionnaire and feedback forms must show how the trained staff intend to deliver the new knowledge and the needed tools required to deliver.

Always know you can create a system to apply acquired knowledge. For us as an education strategy enterprise with special focus on training management, we don't just train, we follow-up to ensure effective knowledge application.

 After the trainings, what's next?

Within the past couple of days and weeks, we have had the rare privilege of training some staff, management team jointly and or independently within  Lagos, Ogun and it's environs.

While we are still open for more trainings, we want to appreciate everyone here who engaged us, trusted us with their staff to share from our worth of training experience.

After these trainings, what's next?!

As humans, we must know that new knowledge is hard to accept especially if it will cause us to change or shift from our comfort zone.

So, its important that we expect that the Peter's Principle where people will be promoted to the point of incompetence will emerge.

Expect that the positive energy that the trainings have brought will last for a week or two and gradually, with the immersion of work, people will sink into their old ways.

Probably not all, but many will.

So, again I ask, after these trainings what's next?!

What's next?

Well! All that's needed to be done is appraisal to ensure consistency and knowledge application.

And this can be done in two or maybe three ways.

1⃣ Re-engage the person or company that trained your team to design an appraisal template and let them use it to appraisal your team after three or four weeks of the training.

2⃣ Your Management team can design their own appraisal template and use it to engage the entire workforce

3⃣ You can engage the company to design the template and let your management team use it on the entire team

In all, the ball is in your court now dear business owner to ensure that the new knowledge count, to ensure that the money spent count.

Like the biology theory of Jean Lamarck says, a body part (knowledge) that's used become effective and the body part (knowledge) not used becomes ineffective.

Therefore, to make sure the new knowledge is effectively used, there must be appraisal, re- evaluation of the trained team.

You can't train once and leave the people to themselves without appraisal and re-evaluation.  This is your job, do it

I believe in your success

IEBelieve  - the corporatee rebel/Enterprise Strategist

For training engagement, call: 08093759013 or email gedupreneurng@gmail.com

How Much is your School Business Worth Part 1 -Believe Iboyi



Towards the middle of last year, we fast tracked the selling and buying of a school.

We had a client who wanted to buy and a client who wanted to sell. Our job was to ensure the smooth transitioning of the process by the clients end -to- end