Education Leadership Confidence Coaching Programme

Heightened self awareness

Coaching Session 1 (2.5 hours) is designed to set the scene for your experience. Through a robust one-hour adult/adult conversation with your line manager and Coach you will design your own “success measures” (goals) aligned to the current Government standards for Education. You will also take direct ownership of strategic elements of the School Development Plan. When your line manager leaves, your Coach will take you through a full contracting conversation to ensure there is a shared clarity on expectations and learning/coaching preferences. The coach will then take you through some exercises to drive insight across two important areas: life (your happiness and wellbing), and your critical stakeholder relationships

Values driven leadership and creating a coaching culture

Coaching Session 2 (2 hours) begins with a conversation focused on your responses to a series of ‘review and reflection questions’, before investing a significant amount of time and energy in truly understanding your critical personal life values. You will explore how these values help and hinder your experiences in life, relationships, leadership and your organisational context. We will learn how your leadership behaviours and the resulting culture you create, if not conscious, are one dimensional – so consciousness is the key here. You will benefit from a ‘transactional analysis mindset’ dialogue with your Coach to understand the positions you hold yourself and others in, and the impact of this mindset, before looking at the advantages and skills required to develop your Coaching Leadership.

Psychological profiling and preferences

Coaching Session 3 (2 hours) will consist of your Coach guiding you through a psychological profiling tool to understand more about your preferences and how you view the world. By truly understanding yourself in this way you can take greater control of the choices you take, and choose not to take, to ensure they work in line with your ideal outcomes. You will also learn more about the impact your preferences have on your innate confidence (and anxiety) levels, before wrapping up with a leadership profile to take away and reflect on it’s strengths and areas for consideration.

Positive psychology – strength focus

Coaching Session 5 (2 hours) brings to life a positive psychology experience where you will explore the learnings from your past and how to bring them into your high-performing future. By analysing your strengths in terms of energy (rather than capability) you will leave with a plan to let go of learned behaviours, and replace them with the activities that really make the difference and that you are truly famous for! If you don’t smile at Coaching Session 5, we have a problem! Towards the end of the session you will pull together all of the insights you have created over the past 5 sessions, and pull them together into your ‘green circle of Education Leadership Confidence’ – you at your best, most energised and most confident leadership self.

‘Return on expectation’ 3-way coaching

Coaching Session 6 (2 hours) is a culmination and a high point in your experience. You will benefit from the focused attention of your line manager and Coach, both fully committed to your personal and professional success. You will guide them through your Coaching journey, your greatest insights, critical highs (and lows), and tell them a story of the most confident version of yourself. Your line manager will coach you and look for opportunities to build on your experiences, open doors, and create opportunities to further embed your Coaching experience for the long-term. An energising and honest career coaching dialogue will then take place, looking at both the long and short term plans for you – what are your plans, what relationships will you need to succeed? What behaviours will you need to display? What more do you need to know to ensure you are in a ‘no risk’ position, and you’re top of the list for the selection process?

Having completed your own analysis of your Coaching experience and written a summary testimonial, you will also have the opportunity to explore your personal support network, and you will have clearly identified the necessary relationships you need to thrive in the weeks and months ahead. Before you formally close your coaching relationship, you will have the opportunity to reflect on your journey, where you have come from and where you are now, and measure your growth in 4 key areas: self-awareness, self-acceptance, personal confidence, and ultimately your Leadership confidence. We’re so confident that you will see growth across these indicators – trust us!

To further embed the learning experience, after each coaching session you will join others who are also experiencing the Education Leadership Confidence Coaching Programme. All Line Managers will attend along with Programme Sponsors. You will have the opportunity to explore your personal insights, and to provide support and challenge to one another, with the added benefit of multiple perspectives.

At each Action Learning Set your coach will support you with the addition of offering some coaching skills development as you move towards developing your Coaching Leadership behaviours.