Audience:

Middle Leaders – Team Leaders

Heads of Learning – Heads of Wellbeing

Senior Leadership Teams

New Leaders

School Workshops

Available

Contact us to discuss possible dates

Mode:

On Site or Online

Full Coach Certification Program

or we can design a program to suit your time and budget

Group Size Max =  30

Great leaders are CONSISTENT in the way they communicate and support their team. The best leaders are not trying to prove how smart they are. They are more interested in listening, asking questions, and working together with their teams to create superior solutions.

High performing leaders are coaches not advice-givers. They understand the best way to develop skills in others is not to direct and instruct them, it is to coach them to find their own answers. Coaching is recognised internationally as one of the most valuable skills a leader can possess.

The Value of Coaching

If your goal is to deepen learning, increase retention and produce better outcomes it starts with becoming a better coach. Coaching can be used to positively impact an individual or group to enhance their job performance.

The skill of coaching is equally important whether you are the teacher in the classroom wanting to improve your teaching style and interactions with students and colleagues, or the Principal of a school, wanting to lead your team more effectively.

Coaching provides the opportunity to extend yourself professionally and to work collaboratively to develop your capacity to improve achievements inside and outside the classroom.

What Others Say About The Program

We chose Janine’s Coaching Focus program from a number of high quality companies and were thrilled with our decision. Janine’s workshops and Coach Certification Program were engaging, challenging, varied, well-paced and universally popular with the 26 staff involved. The consensus was we all learnt a great deal and developed a raft of beneficial new skills to utilise in our everyday roles. Peter Houlihan, Principal, De La Salle College

Janine is an engaging and knowledgeable presenter who skilfully leads participants to an understanding of the positive power of coaching as a professional learning and personal development tool for educators in schools. Mark Murphy, Principal, Whitefriars College.

Our two-day workshop was exceptional. I not only learned lots of useful questioning techniques but had a great opportunity to practice my new coaching skills. Patricia Francis, Peer Coach in Training, Notre Dame College, Shepparton

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Who should attend

This program is ideal for leaders who…

  • Want to build leadership capacity in others
  • Improving the way people work together in any team
  • Create a more collaborative school culture
  • Produce better outcomes for the individual and the school

What you will learn

  • The benefits of coaching for school leaders.
  • A collection of proven questioning techniques
  • The skills and mindset you need to coach effectively.
  • The art of coaching using 2 powerful coaching frameworks and a collection of proven questioning techniques.
  • How to incorporate coaching into your everyday leadership style.
  • The difference between coaching and mentoring and the serious pitfalls of providing advice.

The benefits of attending

  • Enjoy the unique opportunity to develop and practice your coaching skills over two-days in a safe and supportive space.
  • Develop the comfort and confidence to immediately put your new coaching skills into practice as soon as you return to the workplace.
  • Walk away with a full repertoire of coaching tools and resources you can constantly reference to help you use this powerful approach every day.
  • Enjoy the freedom to use coaching in a formal sense, or simply intersperse coaching questions into meetings and conversations and allow coaching to become your default style.
  • Shift from being an advice-giver to a leader who empowers others to generate their own solutions and fulfil their true potential.

About the Coach Certification Program

  • Pre-reading to begin to develop the coaching mindset
  • Coaching practice between the workshop days and a reflective written assessment.
  • A program mapped against the International Coach Federation (ICF) Core Competencies and Code of Ethics.
  • Coaching Workshops across 2 days – 11 hours
  • Coaching Practicum – 3 x 1 hour coaching sessions with other peer coaches – 3 hours
  • Coaching Development Self- Reflection Task – 1000 words – 3 hours
  • Detailed workbook
  • Coaching resources including frameworks, techniques, and templates.
  • Professional Development Certificate of Program Completion mapped against AITSL standards.
  • The confidence to coach people to better outcomes
  • 20 hours Prof. Development

Meet the Presenter

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Janine Stratford 

Leadership Coach, Coach-Trainer & Career Strategist

BSc GradDipEd, GradDipAdHlth&Wlfar, MEd(EdMgt), PCC, MACE, MACEL, MAICD

Janine Stratford is the founder of Coaching Focus, a company dedicated to helping create better leaders and school cultures.

Janine is recognised nationally as one of Australia’s premier Leadership Coaches and Facilitators in the education sector. A former Deputy Principal, Janine understands what it takes to build a great career, lead a successful team, and run a world class school.

With over a dozen years’ experience in coaching, Janine has helped countless teachers to accelerate their career path and supported the growth and development of hundreds of schools across Australia and New Zealand.

A Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation, a Professional Behavioural Analyst and a specialist in conflict management using Restorative Practices, Janine’s cultural transformation programs and leadership development course are considered by many to be the finest in the world.

See the schools we have worked with and the programs they chose

Braemar College, VIC       – Coach Certification Program

De La Salle College, VIC   – Coach Certification Program

Galen Catholic College, VIC – Coach Certification Program

St Francis Xavier Primary, Box Hill, VIC – Coaching for Leaders Program

Shelford Girls’ Grammar School, VIC – Coaching for Wellbeing Leaders Program

Lauriston Girls’ School, VIC – Coaching Skill-Building Workshop Series

Methodist Ladies College, VIC – Coaching Skill-Building Workshop Series

Whitefriars College, VIC – Coaching Skill-Building Workshop

Marcellin College, VIC – Coach Certification Program, Stretch Coaching Program

Marist Sisters’ College Woolwich, NSW – Stretch Coaching Program

William Clarke College, NSW – Coaching Program for Mentor Teachers

Aitken College, VIC – Coaching Program for Mentor Teachers

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