Open Coaching Days for leaders

Cost-effective 1:1 coaching support for your school leadership teams

As the leader of a school or MAT, you need to know that your senior teams have the support they need to perform at their best.

My ‘Open Coaching Days’ are a cost effective way for you to provide your colleagues with access to professionally facilitated reflective spaces in which they can confidentially discuss their challenges and be guided towards resolution. The focus for each session will depend entirely on what each individual brings, but the aim is to help them see their work from new angles and gain perspective. It’s amazing what can be achieved through solutions-focused coaching in short one-off ‘laser’ sessions.

Your colleagues will also learn about how to engage with coaching conversations, informing their own practice with colleagues.

How it works

  • We schedule a Coaching Day each month

  • Your colleagues sign up or bid for an online 1:1 session that suits their availability

  • You can commission 5 x 60 mins, 6 x 50 mins or 7 x 45 mins according to your preference, starting and ending at times to suit you

  • Where you are providing this for staff across a number of schools, we will agree a rotation to ensure fair ‘coverage’ and access

The cost is £650 per Coaching Day, including set up and bookings (plus VAT & travel).

In terms of outcomes, coachees will have opportunities to make use of a reflective and facilitated space in which to consider a challenge or dilemma and to be helped to think about it, while you - as a school or MAT leader - will benefit from the positive impact on your senior staff and teams in terms of wellbeing as well as effectiveness.

For an additional fee, I can provide high-level and completely anonymised feedback each term on themes and trends that emerge from the sessions which might be useful to inform your school or MAT strategy.

Other options are available, including a focus on specific areas, different delivery methods and additional or alternative diagnostics. Through discussion, we may find that your needs are best met with, Core Strengths, Synergi, or individual programmes of 1:1 or team coaching.

Please CONTACT US for more information or to express an interest.

“A system is never the sum of its parts; it’s the product of their interaction. The performance of a system doesn’t depend on how the parts perform taken separately, it depends on how they perform together - how they interact, not on how they act, taken separately.”

Russell Ackoff