Coaching in Education

We have a suite of training programmes specifically designed to support building a Coaching Culture in Education

Coaching in Education

  • To know what coaching is and how it can support you in your teaching role
  • Be introduced to the Grow model of coaching
  • Understand what rapport is and how to use it to improve giving and receiving information
  • Be able to craft quality open questions
  • Have a deeper understanding of how to actively listen
  • An introduction to best practice in Coaching
  • Raise your awareness of the attitude you hold for self and others and the implications
  • How the brain supports this attitude
  • Introduction to 1st 2nd and 3rd Perceptions
  • Have a deeper understanding of the impact of positive language in communication

Covered through INSET days and Twilight Sessions

Coaching for Leaders in Education

  • To know what coaching is and how it can support you in your teaching role
  • Identify the key skills, qualities and attributes of effective leaders in education
  • Understand how coaching supports progression, motivation and success
  • Understand how to give effective feedback for performance improvement
  • Consider how leaders in education can support a coaching culture
  • Develop a strategy for how to implement a coaching culture
  • The importance of best practice in coaching
  • Practicing coaching skills to develop confidence
  • Understanding the key competencies for effective coaching delivery
  • Preparing for the coaching session

Covered through INSET days and Twilight Sessions

Coaching for
Resilience in Education

  • To know what coaching is and how it can support you in your teaching role
  • Defining resilience
  • How do we know when resilience has decreased or disappeared?
  • Consider how coaching can improve resilience in others
  • How to develop a resilient mind set
  • Incorporating lifestyle interventions to increase resilience
  • Incorporating mind and body techniques to promote resilience
  • Using mindfulness to increase resilience
  • Managing personal triggers and implementing useful interventions
  • Understanding work-related triggers and interventions to implement

Covered through INSET days and Twilight Sessions

Advanced Communication Skills

  • To interact effectively with different types of colleagues
  • Understand your communication style and how it impacts on others
  • Increase confidence in the ability to communicate well
  • Learn how to communicate with empathy
  • How to adapt your interpersonal style to get optimum results from others
  • Develop an assertive, non-confrontational communication style
  • Ask appropriate questions to aid clarity
  • Practice techniques to cope calmly in difficult situations
  • Powerful influencing strategies
  • Key rapport building strategies

Covered through INSET days and Twilight Sessions

Challenging Coaching Conversations

  • Learn new strategies for handling difficult coaching conversations effectively
  • How to manage your state to enable the best outcome possible
  • How to structure the opening of a challenging coaching conversation
  • Preparing effectively for the coaching conversation
  • Increase your ability to handle yours (and others’) emotions
  • Understand the root cause of others’ behaviour
  • How to communicate calmly and effectively to achieve a positive outcome
  • Giving and receiving feedback using a tried and tested methodology
  • How to keep things in perspective and remain objective
  • Learn how to empathise with others and see thing from their perspective

Covered through INSET days and Twilight Sessions

Tailored to Your School's Requirements

When we meet up we can go through your specific requirements and goals and create a bespoke programme for you and your school.

See our recent testimonials

"We believe change is possible – we will seek to do all we can within the boundaries that you give us to help you develop and grow in your own style without stress."
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Jeannette Marshall
Master Executive Coach
"We celebrate diversity – whatever your race, colour, creed, gender, ability, belief or values – we want to give you every opportunity for you to grow and succeed."
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Helen
Bullock
Training Director
"Expectations in the new OFSTED handbook and the Headteachers Standards fundamentally mirror the good practice that is embodied in the definition of a coaching culture.”
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Adrian
Jackson
Educational Director