Coaching is not a workshop or simply a new role—it requires a leader to embrace the knowledge of how others learn and change as a result of coaching language and behaviours. Being a "coach-leader" is a key competency, a new identity, for anyone in the business of developing teachers, staff, and students. On a daily basis, coaching challenges leaders to "walk the talk"—continuously growing and improving themselves before modeling and leading others. Built upon the International Coaching Federation standards and competencies for coaching, this book introduces leaders to results coaching, a model that:
- Provides a navigation system for impacting new thinking and solution finding at every level of school systems
- Creates new pathways in the brain resulting in new energy and motivation
- Teaches language that builds trust and scaffolds confidence and competence
- Models thinking processes that move people to action
- Focuses on goal clarity and multiple options leading to action and achievement.