d found myself to be forceful which could’ve lead to staff conflict. I decided to complete the negotiation skills diagnostic again to explore different strategies and reflected on my previous supervisor role, as management skills are transferable in different environments.

4.2 Identify further improvements to professional skills and competencies:

My meeting was a success as my presentation was very clear and I was prepared with a compromising approach. This experience has highlighted areas I need to develop such as; Negotiating: Adapt to different techniques; soft and compromising not hard and forceful.
I obtain excellent communication skills however, when not prepared this was the opposite, therefore planning and preparing is very important to ensure a better delivery of objectives.

There was conflict with a member of staff, she thought all my workload would fall on her, I held a 1-2-1 meeting with her in my managers presence and cleared any misunderstanding in a calm rational way addressing her concerns, showed her how I have delegated my workload to the whole team, I changed my learning style to hers and noticed the positive difference in her reaction. My meeting was successfully lead and managed as the team understood my goal and how I intended to get there with their help. I now lead weekly staff meetings to be more involved in leadership and management activities and improve my negotiating and communication skills.

4.3 Review learning about SBM & relate to school setting:

As an aspiring SBM, this is the beginning of deepening my knowledge on behind the scenes of school business management, highlighting the importance of having an SBM in my school and areas where there is much scope for improvement such as; value for money (resources and services can be challenged regularly) identify areas where the school can save money. I have added on my PDP (Appendix 1) to conduct a monthly stock-take of stationery supplies eliminating surplus and unnecessary supplies, saving money for other resources promoting the schools vision.

I understand the importance of keeping up to date with policy changes and the necessity to adopt and adapt different learning techniques, also the positive impact of having an SBM on the Headteachers workload. Learning different analytical tools has made me notice areas of school improvement; what needs to be improved and how can it be improved. This course has helped me identify areas where I need to improve and enabled me to find ways of how I can develop myself further (Appendix 1). Also learnt how to use different learning techniques and negotiating skills and gained positive results, shadowing my manager is giving me valuable experience, I also made some suggestions she’s taken on board such as performance management should be throughout admin staff and training provided to staff to improve IT skills further for a more efficient service.

4.4 Priorities for further career development & professional learning:

My long-term career development is to secure an SBM position hopefully within my school. I need to further develop my leadership and management skills and believe this course, leading and completing my project along with the tasks I have undertaken will help me move up a tier on the NASBM standards. I also need to request to be involved in new projects assisting where possible. My PDP (Appendix 1) will help me to understand School Finance and Asset Management better. My new target (Appendix 1) will assist me in value for money, negotiation and d

In the new page, you will see links to 4 sets of information on your area:

· Social

· Education

· Housing

· Demographic

· Choose any two variables you think might be related and find them by using the links to the related set. In the tables, locate the variables you chose to work with. For example, you could use the number of rooms (in a house) under Housing and household incomes and benefits under Economy.

· Find the values for each of your two variables for several years. For example, you might use the number of rooms and household income for the years 2012- 2017.

· Use Excel to make a scatterplot and to find the correlation coefficient. You should then have 6 points on the scatterplot, one for each year.

Share your scatterplot and correlation coefficient in your post and use them to address the following in your discussion post:

· Why did you think a relationship exists between the two variables you chose?

· Based on the Excel scatterplot and output

· State what type of relationship exists: Negative, positive, or none.

· Describe the relationship in words including what happens to one as the other changes. For example, as the number of rooms in a house increases, does the family income increase as well?

· Does the statistical information you obtained support or refute your alternative hypothesis that a relationship exists?

· How?

· If you did not find a relationship, why do you think that is?

· What is the value to knowing there is a correlation between the variables? For example, what businesses might flourish in a wealthy area?

· Would another variable better explain the relationship?

· How might the city use such information to make improvements? For example, if you found a relationship between crime and poverty would it make sense to make addressing poverty a priority?

· Can you conclude that one variable is causing the other? Why or why not?