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WHOLE SCHOOL INITIATIVES
Faculty - HR 2020 will be remembered by all as the year that, as an educational community, a country and as humanity, we went through an exceptional, historical and exacting moment that put us face to face with enormous and diverse challenges that impacted each one of us in a unique way.
experiences that each family was having at home (online extracurricular activities, coaching sessions for leadership teams, school tutorials for our staff’s children) and allow us to help them get through this exceptional situation in a healthier way
As a school, this challenged us and summoned us to be together while being far apart, to seek strategies to generate abundance in scarcity and learn together with our staff to navigate ambiguity and become friends with disquiet.
Along these same lines, we carried out proposals we thought would help our people feel more emotionally contained and supported. We sought to generate memorable experiences and prepared a Wellness Day with talks and activities that allowed us to relax and connect to a playful mood. We celebrated Children’s Day with a virtual magic show, Teacher’s Day and many "Zoombirthdays".
Our greatest challenge - but in turn our greatest strength - was to work remotely with the SASS employee value proposition. From Human Resources, we went back to the most essential conception of our role: for people to be well and at ease with their work and thus be able to give continuity to our school in a virtual context. We genuinely wanted to get closer to the employee’s experience and we were able to react quickly by conducting a pulse survey that we called "#SASSFromHome". It thus emerged that one of the biggest challenges our staff had was balancing their personal life with their professional life, managing their time and dealing with the stress that hyperconnectivity entails. For these reasons, our first semester was marked by adaptation, flexibility and wellbeing. We worked hard to generate proposals that could connect with the challenges and
We opened spaces for listening and dialogue (psychological containment network for our staff) and spaces for collective construction (Good Vibes Fridays led by the SEIL team). Through an initiative that we called "Hand in Hand with Human Resources" we proposed a virtual consultation space to be in fluid contact, honour people’s trust and register concerns and doubts. To help our staff to better adapt their work to their home environment, we carried out a needs survey and organised the delivery of more than 200 "remote work kits" with different technological tools. Likewise, to accompany those essential teams whose work remained on-site, we arranged benefits for mobility and lunch.
