Mode: ONLINE or Onsite by arrangement
Programs to suit your needs and budget
Sessions held 1: 1 and confidentially
Coaching is a self-reflective process, allowing you time to explore, plan, and reflect on the actions you have taken or are about to take. It is not about getting advice because you are in control of your direction.
What is Coaching Like with Us?
Whether you are early in your leadership career or a more seasoned leader, Janine will encourage you to design the leader you truly want to be and help you be that leader every day. Our 1:1 leadership coaching sessions are held confidentially online by a Professional Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation and Master Coach Practitioner.
What to Expect with Our Leadership Coaching
We believe the best leaders are clear, consistent, confident, and considered. Through coaching, you will have the time and thinking space to develop these strengths in your leadership style and use a coach’s mindset in every conversation you hold.
Your thinking will be explored, encouraging you to unpack the various factors and influences involved and raise your awareness to a wider range of possibilities and approaches. At Coaching Focus, we help you change for the better.
Who Can Benefit from Our Leadership Coaching?
Leaders at any level and career stage can benefit from our leadership coaching sessions because our leadership coach will personalise programs to suit various needs and preferences. Coaching Focus is also open to tailoring sessions to match different budgets.
Topics to Discuss During Your Coaching Session
Some of the areas that might be explored are:
- Building leadership capacity
- Enhancing team performance and dynamics
- Strengthening your leadership style during challenging conversations
- Workplace relationship challenges
- Goal setting and goal achievement
- Strategic thinking and sharing your vision
- Defining and refining your personal brand and public image
- Decision-making behaviours and tools
- Time and task management
- Dealing with stress, anxiety, frustration and procrastination
- Preparing for a new role and managing the transition
- Creating work-life balance to optimise performance
You can also discuss other topics not listed above and share specific challenges with our leadership coach for a more customised session. The number and frequency of leadership coaching sessions are up to you.
Coaching for Better Leadership
Coaching Focus is your ideal partner for leadership coaching if you want flexible, high-quality sessions. With our certified coach, you can become the leader you were meant to be. We also cater to people in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, and Adelaide who need coaching to improve their leadership skills.
WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID:
Are you being the leader your team needs you to be?
You choose the challenges to be explored and the number and frequency of the sessions.
Some of the areas that might be explored are:
- Building leadership capacity
- Enhancing team performance and dynamics
- Strengthening your leadership style during challenging conversations
- Workplace relationship challenges
- Goal setting and goal achievement
- Strategic thinking and sharing your vision
- Defining and refining your personal brand and public image
- Decision making behaviours and tools
- Time and task management – dealing with stress, anxiety, frustration and procrastination
- Preparing for a new role and managing the transition
- Creating work-life balance to optimise performance
Commonly Asked Questions
Will our conversation be confidential?
I am often asked to coach several people in one organisation and I stress with everyone I coach that their story, their challenges and what we work on together is our business and no-one else’s. I operate under a code of ethics where confidentiality is paramount. If we are to submit a coaching report to your organisation, the contents of that report are decided together.
How many sessions are recommended?
6 sessions across a semester would be a minimum, with the sessions spaced three weeks apart. Across a full year, between 10 and 12 is quite common and a good number to get real change in the way you lead.
Your Leadership Coach
Janine Stratford
Leadership Coach, Coach-Trainer & Career Strategist
BSc GradDipEd, GradDipAdHlth&Wlfar, MEd(EdMgt), PCC, 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.
Behavioural Profiling
Leaders need to know themselves first before they can lead well. Behavioural Profiling is a very efficient and research-based method of mapping your preferred behavioural style, the way you communicate with others and how you are perceived. As a management tool, it also helps to identify your strengths, your contributions to the workplace as well as your challenge areas, with suggestions and strategies to improve your performance.
The profiles Janine uses are double science or triple science tools comprising DISC, Driving Forces and Emotional Quotient, provided by DTS International. The profile questionnaire is completed on-line, and a detailed report, up to 50 pages is produced. Janine will walk you through your Profile Report, which can take up to 2 hours depending on the type of report.
