Coach Certification Program

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

• 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.

• 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.

Each Participant will receive:

• 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

To assist you with the task of completing your PD Application we have created this guide. It provides you with the essential information you need to complete your application successfully.

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.

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.

 

In an industry saturated with professional learning programs, Janine offers something incredibly valuable to school leaders. Highly recommended. Maria Haggett, Principal, Mater Christi College, VIC

 

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

• Do I need to complete the modules in order? You can complete the modules in any order once you have completed Module 1.
• How long does it take to complete the program? This depends on how quickly you want to move through the 4 modules. We recommend 1 module per term or semester, which means you can complete it across 12 months or 24 months. It’s up to you.
• Can I change module dates once I have registered? You can change module dates once you have registered. Simply email office@coachingfocus.com.au and let us know your reason for changing and your preferred new date/dates. We will do our best to allocate you to a new module date if there is availability in the group.
• How do I get the resources for the program? All resources are Express Posted to you in the week prior to the module date. If they do not arrive in time, we will provide an electronic copy of the workbook and resources (where possible).
• Can I get a refund, or a credit, if I need to cancel my registration? Wherever possible we will issue a credit for your payment. You can transfer that credit to any of our programs or transfer the money to someone else at your school.
• When can’t a credit be provided? A credit cannot be provided if you have activated the DISC Profile code issued to you, a Resource Pack has already been sent to you or it is within one week prior to the module date (because by then we will have sent the Resource Pack to you).