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Improving Performance Through People
“The GROW model & question sheets really clarified how I can work better in the role”. Lesley Hall . Teaching & Learning Coach, Altona-Bayside Education Precinct
Coaching Skills for School Leaders
Leadership Professional Development
The responsibilities of a school leadership position are complex - demanding a mind shift from classroom teacher to leader and then coach.
- How do you handle difficult situations sensitively – without alienating people?
- How can you help teachers to aspire to better performance, without offending them?
- What can you do to develop their trust?
- How can you hold them accountable for their actions – and not waste your time?
Coaching Skills for School Leaders provides simple, practical and effective strategies for helping colleagues and team members improve their teaching skills or class management – respectfully.
Program Content
- Establishing trust and respecting confidentiality
- Understanding resistance; handling personal issues with sensitivity
- Simple coaching strategies and tools for improving individual effectiveness:
- Assessing people’s readiness to change, valuing differences
- The power of questioning to help people solve their own problems
- Encouraging commitment, holding people accountable
- Giving feedback, challenging to lift expectations
- Using reflection tools to build learning and experience
- The GROW model of coaching – a structured process to follow
- Managing self – personal accountability, achieving balance
- Optional: One-on-one coaching sessions with individual leaders
Benefits for your school:
This program will significantly enhance the interpersonal and feedback skills of school leaders in:
- Looking for individual strengths and potential – then lifting expectations
- Developing practical questioning techniques
- Using observation tools to help people where and when they need it
- Being able to assert themselves in coaching situations without causing defensiveness
- Providing a structured, reflective process and strategies for keeping all people accountable
- Practicing with a personal Tool Kit
What others said:
- “Excellent, thought provoking!” Dorothy Coleman . St Alban’s Secondary College
- "Today's seminar clarified the coaching process for me. I was able to come away with a very useful model to use when coaching, as well as some valuable tools to assist the process."
- “I now need to make my coaching relationships a more equal partnership – where “they” take on some responsibility too” Jonathan Heard . Teaching & Learning Coach, Altona-Bayside Education Precinct
- "The coaching is about the questioning - think more carefully about the questioning."
- "Very non-threatening and most importantly planned an designed according to our specific needs.” [Catholic Education Office]
- “Very good value - to go home armed with strategies”. Jim Konjarski, Deer Park Secondary College
- “Great! It was a lot of information packed into one day – glad to have the readings to take away” Lisa Robinson. Taylor’s Lakes Secondary College
Positive Change Consulting
PO Box 543, Carnegie
Victoria, Australia 3163
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M. 0425 726 340 |
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