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Work Performance Coaching
Ask yourself the following questions:
- Is your school performing at its "peak performance" level?
- Are all of your staff and faculty members performing at their highest levels?
- Are you pleased with the school's culture and staff interaction?
- Is the learning environment highly interactive with student participation?
- Is the school leader a source of inspiration to faculty and staff?
- Is the school a place where everyone wants to be?
The underlying principle of coaching is that every team member should be capable and willing to contribute.
It is grounded in trust, support, and the goal of creating and sustaining positive change. Coaching recognizes that each person
is a powerful force in his or her own experience. It's markedly different from directing, managing, browbeating, or
cajoling people to change or to do the right thing. Rather, it allows change through the will of the individual and
actively helps everyone to "get on a roll and stay there." It is a results-oriented, focused approach to workplace
success that includes "inner" and "outer" work.
It applies equally well to individuals and teams or groups. In "one-to-one" coaching, principals, supervisors,
team leaders, department chairpersons, or others work individually with a certified coach. Together they determine
where they are today, where they want to be, the best way for them to get there, and the action plan to allow it to
happen.
Coaching is about change and includes built-in accountability and support to make it happen fast and to sustain
it. That's why it works so well and why it can so effectively impact many areas of school operation. Coaching is done in
person or on the phone. Coach and client usually meet once per week, using laser focus to take action, "be" different,
identify and remove limiting beliefs and other barriers to success, and agree on next steps.
Coaching "one to many" with a team or group is usually, but not exclusively, done on site and focuses on the
issues related to the group itself using that same laser-like approach to create change. Group coaching experiences
are highly interactive, moving quickly to get "at the heart of the matter."
