COHORT 2 2023
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
The Coaching in Leadership program is designed to:
- Navigate complexity and support change through intentional application of key coaching skills and techniques
- Develop a ‘coaching approach’ as a people-centred way of leading that builds relational trust, empowers colleagues and enhances wellbeing
- Lead more empowering and agency-enabling conversations that support progress towards enhanced student outcomes
- Develop the confidence and skill to initiate and lead learning conversations in a range of leadership contexts:
– coaching and mentoring with team members
– performance development conversations
– feedback conversations
– in-the-moment ‘corridor conversations’ - Explore what a ‘coaching culture for learning’ could look like in your context and plan concrete steps towards this
- Aligned with internationally recognised coaching credentials
Welcome & Preparation
You will receive your welcome email with pre-work to be completed – week of 22 May 2023.
Workshop 1
This two-day workshop will provide a balance of theory and practical application, including significant modelling of coaching practice. Participants will have numerous opportunities to practise in a highly supportive environment. Specifically, we will address the following topics:
– Schools as complex relational systems and the role of school leaders in these settings
– Coaching as a way of leading through complexity and the theoretical underpinnings of this
– Mapping learning conversations – exploring the conversational contexts of a leader
– Applying the three elements of effective coaching in leadership contexts: A conversational framework; Key coaching skills; and a coaching way of being
Practical Application
Flexible independent learning phase:
– Approximately 3 months between Workshop 1 and 2
– Guided reflection and further resources on course Learning Management System (LMS)
– Scaffolded paired participant practice and reflection
– Logged workplace application of coaching and coaching approaches
– Reflective Journal – insights from practice activities and workplace application
– Interaction and reflection with other participants via course LMS
– Additional theoretical perspectives plus forum discussion and/or reflective entries via course LMS
– Course text readings
– Optional check-in webinar
Workshop 2 & Certificate
This two-day workshop focuses on applying coaching skills and a coaching way of being across a broader range of conversational contexts and discerning the appropriate stance to take in these contexts. Specifically, we will address the following topics:
– Less formal conversation contexts such as: In the moment ‘have you got a minute’ conversations (corridor conversations) and leader-initiated feedback conversations (affirming, learning and concern-based)
– More formal conversation contexts such as: Performance and Development Conversations; Working with Teams and Groups; Ethical boundaries, contracting and leader power and status; Leading a Coaching Culture; Planning for implementation; and Coaching for implementation