All five participants who attended the focus groups held senior management positions, for
four they were in school based settings while for a fifth the management role was within a
community based organisation. Four of the participants were women and one was male. For
the four school based personnel one was a principal while the other three were senior
teachers. In focus group one there were two participants, one male and one female who
were respectively involved in a community based and school based settings. In the focus
group two all three female participants were senior teachers. All of the five participants had
done the course in the last 18 months to two year time period.