Little Effort, Big Rewards: How to work less and do more (Coaching)

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So, could this uncharacteristic boldness – even if led by only a few employees, all protected by anonymity – mark the start of meaningful transformation? Perhaps a new cohort of values-centric workers could pressure a seemingly ingrained culture to budge – something that Di Fronzo says his graduates increasingly desire. And in 1981, Dr Jane Nelson, an American therapist and counsellor, wrote and self-published Positive Discipline - a guide to behaviour for parents and teachers. I found] children weren’t engaged, challenged and had no aspiration,” says headteacher Sam Done, who joined the school in 2016. “It was a culture of these children can’t achieve anything, whether they’re EAL, or white British from a council estate.” Keenan, who got a job as an associate in 2016, did have a sense that he’d be heading into a difficult situation. “You know what you're getting into, and like most jobs, if you want to reap rewards you’re probably going to have to jump through hoops and do some stuff that’s painful along the way.” To be in with a chance of winning, simply create a free Wolves Rewards account, using your existing Wolves account details to register.

Of the students involved in the bullying incident, Sir John describes two as ‘hangers on’. But all were placed in isolation. The two ‘hangers on’ both had exemplary behaviour records and, following the sanctions, were model pupils. When visiting Canada, we learnt that if you don’t have complete consistency in schools, you have a recipe for disaster,” he says. “From Scandinavia, we learnt the importance of an uncomplicated, simple, clear structure that can be understood by all. The app appears to have had some teething problems, however, with some shoppers taking to social media to complain they were unable to spend their Asda pounds in-store.Many schools will adjust behaviour policies to suit a context or diagnosis of SEND and many teachers will informally adjust responses to behaviour owing to knowledge of a child’s home life. Reasonable adjustment We’re in the top 3 per cent of the country for deprivation, we’ve got 43 languages spoken in the school, 50 per cent of pupils are EAL or new to English, 20 per cent have SEND or learning difficulties and over 50 per cent are on free school meals,” he says. ‘‘These families are coming from extreme poverty and difficult home lives. The classrooms and the school needs to be a wonderful environment.”

One of the great things about the Reward Gateway platform is that it gives us the ability to keep things consistent across our organisation but with the option to customise certain elements to suit employee needs in different sectors and business units. So, whilst the core messaging and benefits services we offer remains the same for most departments, we can really start to tailor our offering to individual business units to ensure maximum engagement with our benefits and discounts.” The prevailing narrative: that’s just the price you pay for a longer-term reward of power and prestige in big-name, big pay-cheque institutions. But for young people just jumping into the workforce, is the toil worth the epic reward, even if it may come with some worrying side effects? Some say maybe so. Asda’s new loyalty scheme – the newest on the list – was rolled out to all UK stores and online this summer after undergoing a trial in several regions. Sainsbury’s Nectar card boasts ‘300-plus big brand partners’. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA Archive/Press Association Ima

Apps are increasingly replacing the need to carry a plastic card and mean shoppers can get instant and personalised offers. Holding the line isn’t a popular thing, and parents don’t always support that level of rigour,” he admits. “The parents and those in the community who don’t support you are like rain water: they will find their way in to the weakest part of the structure of the organisation, and you can’t have those weaknesses.” We took a look at the loyalty schemes the big UK supermarkets are offering to see what value they are giving. Asda What we get at TGAT are constant demands from agencies to soften, to undermine our processes in the interests of reasonable adjustment,” he says. “When actually it’s the last thing that child needs.

At Hillcrest Academy, one of the TGAT’s primary schools, the walls are bursting with bright, proud displays of not just the children’s work, but pictures of the children themselves. The school motto: ‘With courage we dare to achieve beyond expectation’ is big and bold in the reception hall, and hanging from the ceiling in the canteen are two bikes. The rules surrounding any ‘major rewards’ trip are simple - if you’ve been put into isolation or have been excluded, you cannot go. Sir John says changes are made if absolutely necessary, but he feels “reasonable adjustment” is potentially hugely damaging.

The winning member agrees to the use of their name and image and will co-operate with any other reasonable requests by Wolves Rewards relating to any post-competition publicity. Our previous benefits platform offered practically nothing in terms of communications, customisation, data analytics or reporting. In fact, the user experience was so clunky that we didn’t even feel comfortable shouting about the initiatives we had in place. That’s when we knew something had to change.” In total, the Trust educates 7,850 students from the ages of 4 to 18. Of the schools inspected since being under the Trust umbrella, two are rated “requires improvement”, two are rated “good” and four are rated “outstanding”. That system is essentially based on two triangles: one with rewards and one with sanctions. On each, the level of severity or size of reward increases as a student progresses up to the peak. There is evidence of reasonable adjustment being used far too carelessly in many schools. [But] of course, where appropriate, reasonable adjustments are of great importance in ensuring equality of opportunity. This would apply regarding SEND or issues around mental health.”

The primary school hit the headlines in 2012 after receiving an “inadequate” Ofsted report. News reports revealed that 40 pupils had been fixed or permanently excluded that year and The Yorkshire Evening Post reported that the school was receiving the “highest level of behaviour support” from Leeds City Council. Influenced”, according to Sir John, by Canadian and Scandinavian approaches to behaviour, Positive Discipline and Behaviour is, he says, a “clear, tight model for punishing and sanctioning behaviour that is absolutely not open to discussion or negotiation”. Behaviour management approach Chloe, our RG account manager, was instrumental in helping us develop our ‘Big Benefits’ brand and implementation plan,” says Donna. “We focussed on engaging with as many employees as possible across each of our channels. RG’s tailored service has been a huge benefit.” And in these schools, Sir John believes, you will find the secret to successful behaviour management. In fact, Sir John would go as far as to say that where you see good behaviour management in schools, you are probably looking at a version of a system he developed. Tesco shoppers with a Clubcard are offered lower prices when shopping in-store and online. Photograph: REUTERS/AlamySome argue that the points-based systems give shoppers more flexibility, with Tesco edging slightly ahead of Sainsbury’s because of the wider range of partners that points can be spent with. However, others will prefer the money-off vouchers offered by supermarkets such as Morrisons and Asda as food prices soar. Changing your shopping habits just to earn points won’t be as effective as shopping around or opting for own-brands Reena Sewraz of Which? Unfortunately, it may not be that simple. Despite an environment that may be riper for status-quo disruption than ever, change driven by this most junior tier of the workforce may not be on the horizon anytime soon – or, perhaps, even realistic to expect. Rolling out a first-class employee benefits and discounts programme within a multinational organisation is no mean feat. Broad workplace demographics, siloed departments and alignment on communications are all hurdles that must be cleared if the project is to stand any chance of success. All supporters who create a Wolves Rewards account by 23:59pm on Friday 19th January 2024 will be entered into the prize draw. Reasonable adjustment, he says, was originally about ensuring a child with a disability has an adjustment made so they enjoy full and equal access to everything everyone is doing. But he feels the requests now often make things worse, not better, for children.