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Being a head teacher in this new millennium is the ultimate in demanding career choices - heads are expected to be business minded, good at financial planning and school development, great communicators and strong leaders.

And all of this before the added pressure of finding time for family, friends and your own wellbeing.

At Coaching for Schools we recognise that to master all of these areas, some reflective time and space is essential if hard to come by.

Business leaders have long embraced coaching as a means of creating reflective space in which to examine one's own goals, aspirations, values and performance. They use it not just to work on areas of weakness but to identify their own leadership brand and develop it fully; to decide on their ideal career and development path and as a confidential sounding board with whom to through around ideas that they have and form them into something they are happy to share with peers, staff and shareholders.

The coaches that we employ to work with heads are not usually educationalists by background - this helps us to create that reflective space free from our own ideas of how things should be done. Instead the coaches who work with heads have extensive experience in personal and executive coaching and are passionate about supporting personal leadership in others.

They all have experience of working on Leadership Development Programmes in FTSE 250 businesses.

And much of our work in schools is funded by business.

Because our focus is on helping you to identify your own strategic planning and personal leadership brand, our services to head teachers are very specific:

Personal and Leadership Coaching:

We offer individual coaching with certified, experienced coaches - the reflective, challenging space that you need in which to develop your own ideas and action plans.

We do not offer consultancy - none of our coaches will attempt to tell you the "best way" to do anything - that's your field of expertise. Instead we will help you to set clear personal and professional goals, create clear achievable action plans and then support you in the achievement process.

Personal coaching can be as specific or broad ranging as you wish and we offer a complimentary first session in order to set the goals for your coaching. If you cannot see the benefit then there is no obligation to continue.

Coaching Skills Training for Heads:

We deliver coach training programmes that help you to develop your leadership brand and your communication and change management skills.

Culture Change Programmes:

Creating a coach style culture is an aspiration for most businesses in this century for a great variety of reasons - it increases employee engagement, productivity, motivation, retention and reduces attrition, stress and bad feeling.

We bring our experience of creating a coaching culture in the business world and combine it with a passion for the potential of young people to create bespoke change programmes for schools. And agin, we offer a fully complimentary consultation to discuss with you how we can help and how we can support you in gaining funding for the process if you wish.

 

We look forward to speaking to you!

The Coaching for Schools team.