For Academic Managers & DOS, ELT

The Academic Manager's Survival Toolkit

22 fillable tools that turn the Manual's frameworks into things you actually fill in and use: audits, planners, trackers, and checklists for your first 90 days and beyond.

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$59

Manual ($29) + full Toolkit ($96) separately = $125, saves 53%

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The Complete AM Survival Kit

The Manual teaches the principle. The Toolkit is the fillable, day-to-day version of it. Each tool maps directly to a module in The Academic Manager's Survival Manual. Read the thinking there, then use these to actually do it.

Get both together in the Survival Kit, at a real discount against buying each separately. Tool 00, included free with every bundle, is a short orientation guide showing exactly how the 22 tools map to the Manual's modules.

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Bundles

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Phase One · 10 Tools

Survival Toolkit

$21 $36

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Tools 00, 01–09: priority triage, observation, difficult conversations, and managing up. Everything for surviving the first stretch of the role.

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Phase Two · 9 Tools

Building Your Systems

$26 $44

Saves ~41%

Tools 10–18: QA, safeguarding, induction, hiring, budgeting, and change management. For building the structures that stop you firefighting forever.

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Phase Three · 3 Tools

Growing Into Leadership

$9 $16

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Tools 19–21: KPIs, course health, and academic-commercial alignment. For managers ready to think beyond day-to-day survival.

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Best Value · All 22 Tools

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Every Phase

The Complete Toolkit

$48 $96

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All 22 tools across Survival, Systems, and Leadership, at a fraction of buying them individually.

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Individual Tools

Or Buy Exactly What You Need

Every bundle above also includes Tool 00: How to Use This Toolkit, a short orientation guide, not sold on its own.

Phase One
Survival
Priority triage, observation, and difficult conversations (9 tools, $4 each)
  • First 10 Days Academic Audit
    A structured audit for your first 10 days, get a clear, honest read on where you've landed before you start making changes.
  • Daily Priority Triage
    Sort what's actually urgent from what only feels urgent, a same-day tool for the moment everything lands on your desk at once.
  • Difficult Conversation Planner
    Plan the conversation you've been avoiding: structure, tone, and the specifics, worked out before you're in the room.

+ 6 more: Weekly Manager Dashboard, Timetable Communication Planner, Pre- and Post-Observation tools, and the Managing-Up Brief. $4 each.

Phase Two
Building Your Systems
QA, safeguarding, induction, hiring, budgeting, and change management (9 tools, $4–$6 each)
  • QA Evidence Tracker
    Keep your accreditation evidence file lived-in all year, so it's never a scramble when an auditor walks in.
  • New Teacher Induction Checklist
    Structure a new hire's first two weeks so their real opinion of your school, formed faster than you'd think, is a good one.
  • Budget Worksheet
    Build and defend an academic budget with real structure, even if you're new to the numbers side of the role.

+ 6 more: Safeguarding Quick Check, Level-Change Decision Guide, Teacher Recruitment Scorecard, Teaching Demo Assessment, HR Escalation Checklist, and the Communicating Change Tracker. $4–$6 each.

Phase Three
Growing Into Leadership
KPIs, course health, and academic-commercial alignment (3 tools, $4–$6 each)
  • Academic KPI Dashboard
    A small, real set of metrics you actually watch and use, not a data dump nobody reads.
  • Course Health Check
    An honest, connected answer to whether a specific course is actually working: enrolment, attendance, feedback, and outcomes together.
  • Academic–Commercial Alignment Checklist
    Keep academic and commercial teams pulling in the same direction instead of past each other.
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Fillable PDF tools, built from real academic operations
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Phases: Survival, Systems, and Leadership
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Fillable fields across the complete set

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Your first 10 days, structured

The free Module 1 checklist, plus the two tools that pair with it, so you walk in with a plan instead of guesswork.

  • Free Module 1 checklist (From Best Teacher to Manager)
  • Tool 00 · How to Use This Toolkit
  • Tool 01 · First 10 Days Academic Audit
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Who's Behind It

Andrew Hall spent fifteen years in senior academic leadership at ILA Vietnam, HUTECH University, and RMIT University Vietnam, developing over 20 Academic Managers directly. He holds an MA in Educational Leadership (Distinction, University of Manchester) and the Cambridge DELTA. More about Andrew →