#parent groups

7 Tips to Deal with Parent Groups on WhatsApp

Being in a WhatsApp chat with other fathers and mothers to discuss the school issues of their sons and daughters can be stressful. Duties, questions, and sometimes, things that do not have much to do with the theme of the group make the number of unread messages grow at a dizzying pace.

“School chats for parents can be tedious if basic rules are not followed.”

Following the conversation can…

Parent Groups – Review

We’ve talked about knowing your values as a group,  how you communicate with each other and your members, how to measure your success and how to deal with egos.  We’ve looked at good leadership, what role your members play, marketing your group, marketing tools, getting feedback and how to deal with disagreements.

As we finish this 10 part course, we are looking at how to review your group and…

Introducing the Ministers for Accountability

As Theresa busily dishes out new roles to her Ministers, we look at the real role of responsibility when it comes to children and young people with SEND.  The Ministers for Accountability.

Ministers for Accountability v MPs/Government Ministers

Our MPS and Government Ministers apply for their role

Unfortunately the Ministers for Accountability are given this role without any planning or…

Parent Groups – Feedback

  We continue with our tips on running a Successful Parent Group.

So far, we have covered:

Values

Communication

Measuring Success

Egos

Leadership

Members

Marketing

Marketing Tools

and today we are looking at Feedback.

Do you ask for feedback?

When we talk about feedback, we don’t mean the forms that any funders require you to complete (how many people attended, how did they enjoy, did you reach…

Parent Groups – Members

We continue our tips on running a successful parent group.  As we have said, we’re not experts but we do know what some of the common issues are and our hope is that by highlighting them, you can take steps to avoid them before they arrive.

So far, we have looked at Values, Communication, Measuring Success, Egos and Leadership.

Members

This week we are looking at Members.

How do you recruit new…

Parent Groups – Leadership

Our Parent Group posts have proved really popular with you and have started some really interesting conversations.  We are hearing from people privately about some of the issues they have faced either setting up a group, or trying to keep a group running.  Many of the issues we are hearing about are covered in this series of posts.

So far we have looked at Values, Communication, Measuring Success

Parent Groups – Egos

We continue with our tips on running a successful parent group.  So far, we have looked at Values, Communication and Measuring Success.  This week we look at the difficult issue of Egos.  Groups are often formed of similar types of people – which can be great – but it can cause real conflict if the similar people clash.

One of the big issues many groups face is dealing with egos.

Ego:  a person’s…