This document discusses the importance of building positive relationships between colleagues in the workplace. It notes that developing strong relationships with coworkers can improve work life, but also that it takes effort to get along with everyone. The document then outlines some of the main responsibilities of school heads and teachers in ensuring a positive school environment and relationships between staff. It provides tips for both positively and negatively impacting relationships at work. Finally, it stresses that in order to improve morale and climate, changes need commitment from all stakeholders in a school community.

4. “A Building positive working
relationship with colleagues
takes time and effort. However
hard you try, it isn’t always
possible to get along with everyone
you work with and there may be times
when you don’t see eye to eye.”
Relationships with colleagues have a huge impact on
our working lives. It exist in the form of head-teacher,
teacher-teacher, teacher-student, head-student, head-
non teaching staff etc. Positive attitude developed
strong and healthy student-teacher relationship and
hence a healthy school environment.

5. Specifically, the head and colleagues main
responsibilities involve:
1. Formulating overall aims and objectives for the school and policies
for their implementation.
2. Working with governors and senior colleagues to deploy
staff effectively and recruit new staff.
3. Meeting with other education
professionals, and representing the
school at conferences and other
events outside the school in the
local community and nationwide.

6. 4. Motivating, training and disciplining staff.
5. Ensuring the motivation of the pupils.
6. Ensuring an infrastructure is in place in which all members of staff
and pupils feel they can register their opinions on serious matters,
and have a route via which they can communicate problems to
senior members of staff.
7. Ensuring the good financial management of the school.
8. Ensuring the school is up-to-date with innovations, from teaching
practices to new technologies.
9. Managing accommodation (e.g. classrooms) effectively to meet
the needs of the curriculum and Health & Safety requirements.
10. Assuming responsibility for other legal matters in the day-to-day
running of the school.
11. Resolving major disciplinary issues with pupils, including
working in partnership with the police and social services.

7. 1. Employ active listening techniques.
2. Allow for open communication.
3. Be respectful of yourself and others.
4. Be willing to compromise.
5. Get to know your colleagues on a personal level.
6. Great communicator
7. Difference maker.
8. Risky, but not too risky.
9. Manage by walking around.
10. Address problems.
11. Cares about students and staff.
12. Instructional leadership.
13. School climate.
14. Human resource administration.
15. Organization management.
16. Communication and community relations.
17. Professionalism.

8. 1. Have a vision.
2. Translate the vision into action.
3. Create a supportive environment.
4. Know what's going on in the school.
5. Act on knowledge. Intervene as necessary accommodating
different teacher personalities, styles, and teaching
strategies.
6. Set boundaries, be respectful of your colleague’s boundaries.
7. Be polite to colleagues.
8. Treat others with respect and dignity.
9. Express your gratitude when a colleague assists you with a
project or task.
10. Create and maintain an orderly environment.
11. Show respect to your students.
12. Use praise and encouragement frequently.
13. Be in control.
14. Offer emotional support.
15. Have a sense of humour!

9. 1. Excessive workload.
2. Concerns about management ability.
3. Worry about job and retirement security.
4. Lack of challenge or outright boredom on the job.
5. A lack of trust is keeping morale low.
6. No one seems to have fun at work anymore.
7. Spend too much time complaining and griping.
8. Colleagues talk badly about management, other departments.
9. Bad temper / rude one.
10. Mistrust.
11. Gossiping.
12. Poor listening.
13. Blame.
14. Ignore colleague’s feed back.
15. Communication in one way.
16. Irresponsibility.
17. No conflict issue skills.

10. The Key to organizational Effectiveness:
Effective human relations and team spirit is very important
for organization effectiveness and productivity. However, as
important as it is, it will not come by chance; you have to
engage the forces that foster team spirit and effective human
relations in an organization.
1. Create a platform for social interaction
2. Understand the factor of individual differences
3. Be willing to tolerate and complement
4. Be genuinely interested in others
5. Mind your own business where necessary
6. Reward improvement and celebrate accomplishment
7. Never criticize

11. 8. Practice true love
9. Be willing to forgive and forget
10. Respect the opinion of others
11. Create team focus
12. Establish open communication
13. Eradicate the spirit of favouritism
14. Create an atmosphere for risk taking
15. Establish training and personal development
processes.

12. “Above all else, treat others as you’d like to be
treated”
By showing others the same courtesy
you expect from them, you will gain
more respect from colleagues and
other working partners. Holding
others in high regard demonstrates
your company’s like ability and
motivates others to work with you.
This seems so simple, as do so many
of these principles — and yet many people, too
concerned with making money or getting by,
fail to truly adopt these key concepts.

13. Don't ignore on-going conflicts.
Doing so will hurt your morale
and interfere with your ability to
do your job well. If you cannot resolve the
conflict with your colleagues, discuss the
problem with you direct supervisor or arrange to
meet with a human resources representative.

14. Any venture that seeks to bring
about change must have the backing,
commitment and Support of the very
people who the change is going to affect.
If teacher morale is to be raised and school
climate improved then the people that must
bring about this change are the teachers, administrators,
students, parents and the school community. The strategies
discussed above, while providing solutions to the problems of low
morale and poor school climate, require the commitment and
obligation of all stakeholders to ensure that they work. Teachers
and students must be willing to embrace new ideas and
methodologies and become collaborators in modelling a vision
for excellence. They must take full ownership of any changes
and make every effort to ensure that success is the end result.
The ripple effect created will impact on providing the best
possible education for our children.

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