The Coach Approach
Being a leader is no easy task.
Being a leader with the Coach Approach means the task is carried out with collaboration, teamwork, and a lot more fulfilment.
It’s a great time to be a principal. There’s a lot of blah-blah-blah floating around about leadership skills. But how do you actually become an effective – and (gasp!) likeable – head of a school?
Crash Course
- It's not about bribing staff to come on time.
- It's not about threatening to suspend the class clown.
- It's not about ducking or buck-passing when faced with irate parents.
So what's the secret sauce?
- Being a leader is about working together with your staff members, not above them.
- It's about developing a school atmosphere that is focused, productive, and an enjoyable place to be.
- It's about empowering colleagues to problem-solve, handle issues, and innovate.
- It's about really hearing what your students, teachers and parents need from the school, and finding creative ways to meet those needs.
Make the best decision you'll ever make: The Coach Approach
Get a full course that walks you through the how to’s of coaching. You’ll learn how to achieve all those juicy skills, with empathy, clarity, and confidence.
With 28 in-depth videos created by certified coaches and experienced educators, you’ll have the tolls you need to transform your approach as a school leader.
These videos are broken up into 3 modules:
Module I: Coaching Essentials
Learn the basics of coaching, based on the 5 Cs: Connecting deeply, Contracting for success, Clarifying, Creating sustainable goals, and Committing.
- Understand the definition of coaching and how it differs from therapy, mentoring, and being a “good friend.”
- Learn how to really connect, listen, and ask empowering questions.
- Discover how to create clear, achievable goals, and hold your client accountable.
- Learn how to help yourself and others understand what blocks them from attaining their personal or professional goals.
- Learn about beliefs that limit our motivation and interpretations that force us to react in very limited ways.
- Learn about the inner critic constantly running in our heads, telling us we are not good enough.
- Discover how to challenge internal blocks. Give yourselves, your clients, and those around you the gift of overcoming limiting beliefs, filtered interpretations, and the gnawing inner critic.
Module II: Deepening the Conversation
Bring your coaching expertise to fruition.
- Learn how to dive deeply with your clients into their values and help them recognize what motivates them.
- Learn to help your clients recognize their strengths and then determine how to achieve their goals using those strengths.
- Learn how to assist your clients in being aware of and managing their own emotions and those of others.
Module III: The Core Competencies
- Eight on-demand classes detailing each one of the 8 ICF Core Competencies presented in a clear, step by step presentation.
Each module is available as stand alone units for $250 a piece. If you purchase the first two modules. the third will be gifted to you for free. In order to truly master these concepts and incorporate these practices in your daily leadership, I offer personal coaching sessions as often you feel necessary.