Coaching with The Leadership Challenge® for Educators
Coaching as a Leadership Development Tool
Whist traditional approaches to leadership development provide a variety of benefits, they do have some limitations:
- While participants receive many good ideas from training programmes, many do not obtain the follow-up support to transfer that learning into their real life situations.
- In many cases, there is either minimal or no system of accountability to ensure that the leader’s leadership goals are identified and a personalized leadership development plan is in place
- Real root leadership issues may not be able to be adequately discussed and dealt with (Gorham et al., 2008)
To address some of these limitations, schools can integrate coaching as part of the overall student leadership development. Leadership coaching is a highly customized learning process that empowers an individual to align their purpose, plan and actions. Research has shown that there is a direct correlation between coaching and excellent leadership skills and leadership effectiveness (Bradly, et al., 2006; Compasspoint, 2003)
Coaching with The Leadership Challenge® for Educators
With this mind, Lifeskills Enrichment has designed a programme for educators to enhance their leadership development using the well-researched framework and tools from The Leadership Challenge® by bestselling authors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner. Approaching leadership as a measurable, learnable and teachable set of behaviours, this proven leadership model proclaims Leadership Is Everyone’s Business. This 2-day training incorporates the Coaching for Real Change framework which enables educators to integrate both the leadership and coaching framework. The tying together of these two competencies will bring about practical and personalised solutions for attaining the desired outcomes and in seeing lasting change both in themselves as well as others.
Learning Outcomes
References:
Bradley, N, & MacGregor, B, & Buckley, M, & Ryan-McNee, S, & McCoubrey, S. (May 2006) Coaching Educational Leaders. BC Educational Leadership Research
Compasspoint. (Sept. 2003) Executive Coaching Project: Evaluation of Findings:
http://www.compasspoint.org/assets/2_cpcoachingexecsumm.pdf
Gorham, M., Finn-Stevenson, M., & Lapin, Beth. (2008). Enriching School Leadership Development through Coaching: Research and Practice Issue Brief. The School of the 21st Century, Yale University.
