https://www.independentcoaching.org/home daily 1.0 2024-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0d762686be2a6c0046fea0/1599212285559-KX4YVJ0KWAWCRVNTB9W1/IMG_5732.JPG Home - Principles Our work is based on three hugely powerful principles: Potential – we all have amazing potential Leadership – leadership grows our potential Learning – learning is the path of real leadership https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0d762686be2a6c0046fea0/1598370976434-20WL4GJVUXJFPSCX7HVO/P1000570.JPG Home - The Leadership Coaching Skills Programme You will explore and learn about: energising organisational culture working with the ethics of performance stimulating reflective practice and enquiry nurturing group and team communication; and improving network capability. The Programme has been completed by hundreds of leaders in schools over the last ten years with 95% rating the programme as ‘outstanding’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0d762686be2a6c0046fea0/1600167645305-IUU53J17NW6LGTWT36IW/142ce88e-1149-4cad-adec-805dd631c010.jpg Home - Executive Coaching Successful leaders are often looking for fresh perspectives to further enhance vitality and performance, both in themselves and in the teams and organisations they lead. Executive coaching is bespoke, tailored to your own experience and priorities. Your coach helps you to reflect seriously on your own current context, challenges and leadership and to find ways forward that are creative, robust and motivating for all involved. “I started working with Paul as a new headteacher and can honestly say that I was able to thrive and not just survive! Now, several years later, I continue to develop my own leadership and coaching skills with Paul and have also received fantastic 1:1 coaching…As a school leader I wouldn’t be without a coach.” John Taylor, Executive Principal, Roundthorn and Coppice Academies, Oldham https://www.independentcoaching.org/background daily 0.75 2020-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0d762686be2a6c0046fea0/1601322035086-DO1J0NEA48K7RN18QDBQ/IMG_1668.jpg Background - Leadership, without doubt, is the single most important master skill for success. Given that schools are by nature and purpose ‘people organisations’, it is clear that the particular emphasis needed is the leadership of people. Dr Paul Simmons, FRSA https://www.independentcoaching.org/the-programme daily 0.75 2023-07-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0d762686be2a6c0046fea0/1600171296468-CH5NL5FQC1MJ981CPSTT/IMG_0096.JPG The Programme - Part 1 . Personal Leadership: Awareness and Responsibility “Know thyself” Socrates Coaching in Part 1 aims at personal empowerment: the expansion of freedom of choice and action to shape one’s life and work. We all need to refresh our own sense of personal awareness and reflect on our spirit of social engagement and responsibility to help guard against the cynicism which can erode our values and convictions for education and learning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0d762686be2a6c0046fea0/1600171594319-5OK34EK69U97AVY36OGD/P1000771.JPG The Programme - Part 2. Organisational Leadership: Performance and Accountability “We are social” The Dalai Lama In Part 2 the leadership coaching moves towards the more pressing demands and imperatives of the workplace. This involves working with the wider school system, teams and all the human and social dynamics which are part of this broader picture. The nature of synergy and collaboration, motivation and engagement are all features of this work. We ask the question: What does this ask of us as leaders? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f0d762686be2a6c0046fea0/1600171629291-CQQI61O19DTRVC9053TK/P1000776.JPG The Programme - Part 3. Strategic Leadership: Coaching and Culture “The full flowering of human potential” UNESCO Given the complexity and diversity of the school as a social system, how do we hold it all together? This is the key question in Part 3. Here we work with the enigma and power of organisational culture. To raise performance do we work harder, work longer hours? Do we look to innovation and creativity? Do we look to collaborative ways of working? Do we look to others to tell us what to do? And to what extent do we sacrifice wellbeing to performance goals and targets? How leaders understand this work with culture is a powerful influence on both performance and wellbeing. 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