Audience: leaders at any level and career stage

Each coachee is given a booking link to find a time that suits them

Mode: ONLINE or Onsite by arrangement

Programs to suit your needs and budget

Sessions held 1: 1 and confidentially

Leadership Coaching

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. Coaching is not about getting advice, because you are in control of your direction. Through coaching, your thinking will be explored , encouraging you to unpack the various factors and influences involved and raise your awareness to more and different possibilities and approaches.

At Coaching Focus, we believe great 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 make use of a coach’s mindset in every conversation you hold.

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 everyday.

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.

WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID:

As a senior leader, supporting people to build their leadership capacity, and achieve impact in their roles, is one of my most important responsibilities. Through this leadership coaching program, I can attest to Janine’s ability to effectively partner with schools, in supporting individuals to develop their own personal and professional leadership capabilities. Janine’s expertise in this program, has led to the achievement of positive outcomes for our school culture and student learning, and strong growth in leadership capacity.

Paul Bannister, Director of Learning and Innovation, Concordia College, SA

I cannot recommend Janine highly enough. She is able to get to the heart of things easily and develops good rapport with staff.

Our staff have a high level of regard and trust in Janine and appreciate her practical nature. Quite often staff will describe her sessions as the best PD they have ever done and appreciate that they can put their learnings into action in a very real way.

Rachael Cracknell, Deputy Principal – Staff, St Bede’s College, VIC

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.

To explore your questions, we encourage you to schedule a free conversation with Janine.

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.