Audience:

Programs are designed to suit your group of leaders, whether they are:

first time leaders

middle leaders

executive level leaders

Programs are designed to suit your development goals

Mode: ONLINE or On site

PD Hours can vary according to your goals and time available

Group Size: from smaller groups up to maximum of 30.

Programs designed to meet your needs.

Every school and every team is unique. They have different priorities and their own set of learning needs.

Janine will listen to the needs of your team and the direction you are wanting to take and she will design a program that will not only meet those needs, but ensure that relationships are strengthened and team functioning improved.

Being a former school leader and educator, Janine understands schools, the language, challenges and the current direction of education. She will work closely with you to ensure the program design meets your learning outcomes and fits within your professional learning budget and timelines.

Programs can be designed for small or large groups. Programs can also be designed to be delivered in person or virtually.

Janine incorporates the approach and mindset of coaching into every program and encourages each participant to step outside their comfort zone to explore the way they think and work, their beliefs, attitudes and approach to leadership. We link research and theory to best practice and model how to apply this thinking.

Programs are interactive, well-paced and your staff will enjoy the discussions, activities and coaching conversations.

Participants will come away from each program equipped with strategies and tools for immediate implementation. You might even get a helpful template or two!

We will design your program around the developmental needs you share with us and leadership challenges you are wanting to address.

We can design programs for leaders at every stage of their career journey from those heading into their first leadership role, through to middle leaders and for those more experienced leaders at executive level in your school.

Topics may include:

  • Leadership skills for the new leader
  • Developing the middle leader
  • Mapping the DISC profiles of the team for better communication
  • Becoming more strategic
  • Understanding others to lead well
  • Setting up the new team
  • Developing high performing teams
  • Conflict Management
  • Designing a coaching community
  • Developing coaching cultures
  • Coach-training for leaders and peer coaches
  • Emotional intelligence for leaders

In the proposal we provide we will document the learning from the program along with the outcomes we expect for your leaders.

Each participant will receive

An individual Resource Pack containing the Program Workbook, Worksheets and Resources and the Coaching Focus bent pen.

A professional development certificate mapping the PD hours against the relevant AITSL standard.

Meet the Presenter - Janine Stratford

Janine Stratford is the owner and founder of Coaching Focus, the company developing leaders in schools to be role models for those around them. She will design a program based on the leadership competencies you are looking to develop in your staff. A former Deputy Principal, Janine is an internationally qualified Leadership Coach, facilitator and coach-trainer. She is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) with the International Coach Federation, Master Coach Practitioner and a Certified Professional Behavioural Analyst. Janine now delivers leadership development programs throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Convenor & Facilitator
BSc. GDEd, GDAdHlth&Wlfar, MEd (Ed Management)

What is the maximum number of staff in one workshop? For each workshop day, our maximum number of participants is 30.

We are often engaged to deliver the Elevating Leadership Program for schools, across a 2 period.

Those schools who have engaged us to design bespoke programs recently are:

Churchie – Anglican Church Grammar, QLD 

Program – 2 day middle leaders program

 

St Bede’s College, VIC

Program – Challenging Conversations. Group: middle leaders

Program – Being strategic and leading from a vision. Group: middle leaders

Program – Resume Support and Interview Preparation. Group: all middle leaders

 

Notre Dame College, VIC

Program: Introducing a Coaching Culture across the school, 2 year program

 

William Clarke College, NSW

Program: Introducing a coaching program for students 

 

Marist Sisters’ College Woolwich, NSW

Program: Redefining the coaching approach in the school

 

Aitken College, VIC

Program: Leadership Capacity Building, 12 month program

Program: Coaching Training Program for Class Mentors

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, VIC

Program: Elevating Leadership Program – all 4 modules

Group: all middle leaders in the school, delivered over 2 year period.

 

A powerful tool, for getting to know members of your team – what motivates them, what turns them off and how to communicate more effectively.

Joanne Rock, Principal, Santa Maria College, VIC 

Program: Elevating Leadership Program (Module 1 adapted)

Group: Executive Leadership Team.

 

An extraordinary and well-led program that facilitates growth and change internally and in teams in a manner that is challenging yet compassionate.

Barry Zworestine, Head of Learning Support, Masada College, NSW

Program: Elevating Leadership Program – all 4 modules 

Group: all middle leaders in the school, delivered over 2 year period.

 

Today was a great way for our Leadership Team to engage in coaching opportunities. Janine ran an engaging day that introduced us to various coaching models and allowed us to discuss coaching opportunities.

Catherine Wells, Deputy Principal, St Francis Xavier Boxill Primary School, VIC

Program: Coaching Conversations – 1 day workshop

Group: Senior Leadership Team

 

Janine was highly relatable, professional, and inspiring. Her workshops made me feel more confident to practice my coaching. Highly recommended!

Kerry Russell, Year Level Leader, Braemar College, VIC

Program: Elevating Leadership Program – all 4 modules

Group: all middle leaders in the school, delivered over 2 year period.

Start a conversation with Janine to explore your leadership development needs.