How to negotiate: tips for school business managers

How to negotiate: tips for school business managers As a school business manager, you have many different elements to your job, so it’s impossible to be amazing at every part! Negotiation is a skill any school business manager should have in their arsenal. But...

An interview with an SBM: COVID and the future of school education

An interview with a SBM: COVID and the future of school education SBMs have had a tough year. Their job hasn’t stopped, and they’ve had to quickly understand and implement essential health and safety policies surrounding COVID-19. School budgets were already tight but...

3 tips for new school business managers

3 tips for new school business managers The role of a SBM is an important one, but vast, and with budgets stretched thinner due to COVID, and headteachers needing increasing amounts of support with their workload — the job scope is now ever more challenging to...

How SBMs can better manage their workload

SBMs: How our school app can help juggle your workload We know, as a school business manager, you’re pulled in different directions – even more so inlight of COVID; in fact, 40% of SBMs said they worked more than seven additional unpaid hoursa week during the...

4 time-saving tips for school business managers

4 time-saving tips for school business managers We’ve just been plunged into another national lockdown, and with short notice, school management turned on its head once again. As a SBM, your job was already pretty chaotic before the pandemic; you’re tasked with the...