Focus the power of your collaborative school community with powerful coaching conversations!
Effective coaching conversations are powerful tools to rally your school-community stakeholders to work collaboratively toward transformation, and, ultimately, share in success. The Second Edition of this best-selling handbook includes new neuroscientific research that demonstrates the potential for change in schools and expands the approach to cover teacher/student interaction. In addition to learning techniques to engage and motivate, readers will discover how to:
· Develop relational trust within the school that heightens personal growth and supports student achievement
· Utilize the power of committed listening, intentional conversations, and nonjudgmental feedback
· Create positive changes in how people think and interact
Being a successful school leader has become an increasingly complex role that demands not only tremendous knowledge and skills, but also highly developed interpersonal skills. Written with an easy-to-use approach, this handbook provides simple yet powerful coaching strategies to help school community members work together toward positive school transformation.
Table of Content
Foreword by Simon T. Bailey
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Coaching Conversations: The Link to Change
What Is a Coaching Conversation?
Why Our Brains Need Coaching
Why Trust Matters
Holding Difficult Conversations
Moving Toward Coaching Conversations
Summary
Reflections for Practice
2. Coaching, Mentoring and the Leadership Continuum
Leadership Practices Continuum
How the Continuum Works in Practice
Being a Coach-Like Mentor
The Case for Being Coach-Like
Summary
Reflections for Practice
3. Committed Listening
Listening Assessment
Moving to Action
Components of Committed Listening
Verbal and Nonverbal Communication
Value Silence
Unproductive Patterns of Listening
Listen Without Obligation to Act
Summary
Reflections for Practice
4. Powerful Speaking and Questioning
Expressing Positive Intent
Avoid Advice
Ask Powerful Questions
Summary
Reflections for Practice
5. Reflective Feedback
The Importance of Feedback
Three Types of Feedback
Options for Offering Meaningful Feedback
Responding-on-the-Fly
Framing an Important Conversation Using Reflective Feedback
Journal Reflection About an Important Upcoming Conversation
Using the Reflective Feedback Frame to Support Excellence
Reframing Resistance
Summary
Reflections for Practice
6. Moving to Action: A Way of Being
The Basic Framework
Study 1: Using the Reflective Framework in a Supervisory Coaching Conversatio
Study 2: Using the Reflective Framework for Large Scale Challenges
Next Steps
Summary
Reflections for Practice
Appendices
Appendix A: Powerful, Open-Ended Questions
Appendix B: Reflective Feedback
Appendix C: Reframing Resistance
Appendix D: Reflective Feedback Framework for Coaching Conversations
References
Index
About the author
Consulting Description Marceta Reilly, Ph D, has 42 years of experience in education, moving from teacher to principal to school superintendent in Kansas. Her vision and passion were to create schools that were welcoming to students and families, and centers of learning and success for the entire community. Dr. Reilly is now a leadership coach and has the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential from the International Coach Federation. She is a founding member of Coaching for Results, Inc., and dedicated to partnering with school leaders who are doing transformational work. She uses coaching conversations to help her clients gain insight and confidence, and she helps build their capacity to be extraordinary leaders, based on their individual, innate strengths. Dr. Reilly regularly conducts workshops about coaching conversations. She is a frequent speaker at state and national conferences, and has been invited to present these ideas to audiences in China (2007) and India (2009).Learn more at http://marcetareilly.com/leadership-that-inspires.
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