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

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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.” Some 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?

Enjoy great savings and redeem AirAsia flights with BIG Points. Get up to 90% savings on flights during our monthly BIG Final Call Sales. Or redeem flights based on flight hours with BIG Fixed Points available all year long. These flights are only redeemable with BIG Points and exclusively for BIG Members only. The behaviour triangles are now a ubiquitous system right across the country. I’ve trained over 50 schools in Positive Discipline and in addition to that word of mouth has become a key driver [in the behaviour model spreading across the country.]” If you get great behaviour systems in place, but the teaching is largely uninspiring, then you’ve got big problems. It can’t just be bolted onto a school - everyone needs to be fully trained and properly behind it.’ Sir John says changes are made if absolutely necessary, but he feels “reasonable adjustment” is potentially hugely damaging. 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.” Marks & Spencer Sparks customers are sometimes offered free treats such as Percy Pig sweets. Photograph: Kathy deWitt/Alamy

Although described as unapologetically strict by Sir John, the behaviour policy does not require pupils to walk in silence along the corridors. The themes of Adler, Dreikurs and Nelson’s work - mutual respect, consistency and community - have similarities with TGAT’s policy. Sir John would not respond to questions about the similarities, but he had previously made it clear that it was he and a team of his teachers who, in 1998, created something unique for schools in the form of a distinct policy of Positive Discipline, based on trips to Canada and Scandinavia. 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.However, while you may get exclusive price discounts or personalised offers, Reena Sewraz, a money expert at Which?, warns that any savings could easily be cancelled out if the shop’s prices are higher than its competitors in the first place.

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.” 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. It was only when the school joined the TGAT in 2015 and implemented the positive discipline model that everything changed, he says. 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.Others won’t say this, but I will: reasonable adjustment destroys positive discipline and destroys effective schools,” he argues. He recalls an incident that involved a group of students at one of the trust’s schools, a bullying incident and a ‘major rewards’ trip. 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.” 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.

We took a look at the loyalty schemes the big UK supermarkets are offering to see what value they are giving. Asda Trips are not the same without BIG Points. Earn BIG Points on your next AirAsia flight, hotel stay, tours, car rental and travel SIM with our partners. If you find another academy chain who has the same standard of behaviour as us, but approaches behaviour differently, I’d love to see how they do it. Because I’ve certainly never come across one.” 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. The highest certificate a pupil can achieve is ‘The (enter school here) exceptional achievement certificate’ - it takes 2,000 credits to earn this.Most of the big supermarkets (bar Aldi) offer a loyalty scheme, and if you have not signed up or used one for a while, you may find that a lot has changed over the last year or so. For example, Asda announced in August that shoppers nationwide could access its new loyalty programme, while Morrisons announced a new scheme last year, and other supermarkets have been tweaking their offerings. All supporters who create a Wolves Rewards account by 23:59pm on Friday 19th January 2024 will be entered into the prize draw. This means that while it’s probably worth signing up to the loyalty schemes offered by the shops you regularly use, changing your shopping habits just to earn points won’t be as effective as shopping around or opting for own-brands when it comes to saving money,” she adds.