Elevating Leadership Program

• Anyone in middle or senior leadership
• Anyone new to leadership
• Leaders who want to improve their leadership style, want to work more effectively with others, to improve team dynamics
• Find conflict stressful and difficult to manage, put it off, are unsure what to say in the moment, want to be able to defuse a conflict situation rather than ignore it.
• Leaders who want to build leadership capacity in others, empower others, improve the way they work together as a team and improve team performance, create a more collaborative culture
• Produce better outcomes for the individual and the school, innovate their approach, enhance their leadership skills, lead change effectively.

The 4 modules are based on these key qualities of successful leaders: Clear, Confident, Consistent, and Considered.

Module 1: is focused on defining your leadership style and setting the foundation for you to become a great leader. You’ll learn the following in Module 1:

• Your preferred behavioural style and how its perceived by others
• Adjusting communication styles to match the responses of others
• Your 4 primary motivators to utilise for positive collaboration

Module 2 is about tackling hard challenges such as conflict and tense discussions. You’ll learn the following in Module 2:

• Emotional intelligence techniques to manage the emotions of participants
• Ways different personality types react to stress and how to manage them
• Co-creating solutions for win-win outcomes using a 6-step framework

Module 3: is a coach training program to become an effective leader. You’ll learn the following in Module 3:

• Proven questioning techniques to bring others to their full potential
• Powerful coaching frameworks to master the art of coaching
• What you need before you begin coaching the people around you

Module 4: is designed to assist you to lead your team so they work effectively together. You’ll learn the following in Module 4:

• The critical role of a leader in team dynamics and performance and how your leadership style influences team outcomes.
• Effective techniques for providing constructive feedback in a way that motivates and encourages growth.
• The principles of change management and how to apply them so you can guide your team through periods of change smoothly.
• Ways to build capacity within your team, enhancing overall performance and nurturing team members’ strengths.

You’ll receive specialised guidance throughout your journey to becoming a leader. Expect to walk away with advanced communication skills and greater leadership confidence — whether you’re in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, or Adelaide.

Module 1: CLEAR – Define Your Leadership Style

• A clear understanding of your style as a leader and a deeper appreciation of the impact you have on the workplace.
• The self-awareness to change the way you work so you can be more productive and effective in your role.
• The capacity to identify styles in others, enabling you to work better with others, especially colleagues who are different to you.
• The confidence to lead positively and reduce potential for difficult conversations, disagreements, and misunderstandings.
• The skills to manage conversations, set expectations, manage group dynamics, team meetings, and minimise relationship difficulties between colleagues.

Module 2: CONFIDENT – Managing Conflict

• Walk away with a proven framework to follow that gives you the confidence to face any challenging conversation.
• Develop your own tool kit of phrases and language to draw on at a moment’s notice to help you move past the conflict and ensure a smoother outcome-driven discussion.
• Establish the ability to hold assertive conversations that lead to faster resolutions and better outcomes for all parties.
• Use a collaborative coaching style to increase your resilience during difficult moments and better equip you to move the situation from conflict to conversation.
• Instantly be seen as a more effective leader and educator because you have the skills, language, and tools to use when working with colleagues and parents.

Module 3: CONSISTENT – Coach Certification Program

• 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.

Module 4: CONSIDERED – Leading Teams for Peak Performance

• Learn how to provide constructive feedback that fosters growth and improvement.
• Master the art of delegating tasks to maximize team productivity and efficiency.
• Acquire tools to navigate and manage change smoothly within your team.
• Learn techniques to cultivate a supportive and collaborative team environment.
• Build capacity across your team, enhancing overall performance and cohesion.

• An individual 40-page DISC Profile Report
• Bonus Driving Forces report highlighting your motivators.
• Four detailed workbooks
• Resources Cards and Templates and Tools to use immediately in the workplace
• The amazing Coaching Focus bent pen
• Certificate of Completion, mapped against AITSL Standards
• 36.5 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.

This program has developed my capacity as a confident leader. Through strategies such as how to have challenging conversations and how to coach employees I have ensured that I have attempted to make my staff more accountable even though it may cause some “push back”. Module 4 tied it all together regarding the importance of being emotionally intelligent and how to best work with the team so they actively participate in change at a school level. This program exceeded my expectations.

Ashleigh Hoogendoorn, De La Salle College, VIC

Janine uses the online webinar medium in a personal, confidential, and connected way, so that participants can explore their practice in a safe and directed manner for real professional growth. I always come away with new insight into my own development as an educational leader, a refreshed skill base and networking I feel I can continue communicating with as I further hone my skills.                        

Julia Strentz, Preshil Independent School, VIC

The Elevating Leadership Program has helped me grow in confidence as a young leader by providing me with tools and strategies for developing action plans that I can use to become a more impactful leader. I looked forward to each module and found it highly effective completing these modules over the course of a school year as I could see myself apply the things I had learnt and enhance my skills and knowledge as an upcoming leader. Thanks Janine!

Marissa Chui, Northside Christian College, VIC

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• 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).