Dynamic strategy development in education

It is early 2020 when the executive of CSG Reggesteyn, a secondary school with sites in Nijverdal and Rijssen, approaches Jester Strategy. The biggest challenges? Reggesteyn is a school in a shrinking region, is busy with a new building project and would like to develop a dynamic plan. Learning and adjusting course must become second nature for everyone in the organisation.

The project team gets to work. We set the strategic challenges; alongside demographic decline there are questions about the curriculum, about putting staff in their strengths and about opportunities for collaboration. By now we are in the second lockdown and the measures are putting real strain on the organisation.

The conversations during the sessions cover a wide range of topics. Identity, professional school culture, these conversations may be even more important than the result itself.

Alongside the course plan we work with Reggesteyn on setting up a strategic cycle in which units make plans on the basis of the course and have periodic conversations about how things are going. First crawling, then walking, then cycling.