Coaching School Results Newsletter

Volume 4. Issue 2

FEBRUARY 2008

THE BENEFITS OF COACHING

“The future never just happened. It was created.”
Will and Ariel Durant

Do you live in a world where intention, focus, knowledge, effort, and faith makes just about anything possible? That’s what coaching can provide. Coaching can ignite that spark inside you to spur you on to make a difference.

On the other hand, if you feel isolated, overworked, undervalued, or frustrated, coaching can help you turn those situations around.

Coaching helps people get the results they desire, both professionally and personally and to be in control of their lives. For educators, effective leadership coaching can create lasting school change.

Clients get involved in coaching for a variety of reasons:

Some clients want to increase or gain skills and a coach can help them identify actions and alternatives to gain or improve the desired skills. Often the coach helps the client focus on the feeling the client wants to receive and helps the client be accountable for working through their plan.
Another reason might be to improve professional performance. Clients in new leadership roles want to discuss what is working and not working and how to bring about change. A coach can help the client look at strengths and obstacles that are causing frustration. Coaching provides the “gift of time" to problem solve and reflect.
Since coaching is an ongoing learning process some clients use coaching for enhanced professional growth and development. Coaches can help clients learn about themselves and how they are progressing toward their desired future. What new personal attributes or insights will help the client be successful?
Some school organizations provide coaches for their leaders. These schools or districts understand the value of coaching for their leaders and fully realize the benefits of follow-up and ongoing feedback. Investing in coaching also makes a statement about how they value their leaders.
Some clients invest in coaching on their own because they want to live a more meaningful, fulfilling life. They may be looking for more balance, better relationships, or want to rediscover their passions and joys.

What have some of our clients said about how coaching has benefitted them?

"The time with my coach allows me to think out loud, to problem solve, and to plan for an upcoming “tough” event.”
“Hearing my coach paraphrase what I have been saying and thinking gives me the opportunity to reflect and move beyond where I am, to think things I wouldn’t consider just on my own.”
“My coach helped me to focus on my own locus of control to make things happen, and to not spend time on the things I can’t change.”
“The coaching calls help to build in accountability for me. I prepare for my calls so I am focused and reflect on what I had said I would do during the last call.”
“Coaching provides structure for change. Human nature often has us falling back to the status quo since it requires less work and is more comfortable. Contact with my coach helps me to move forward with my intended plans, even more exercising.”
“A coach can help to take my thinking deeper, to really align with my values. The questions my coach raised really made me consider what I wanted and how I would get there.”

For coaches there are benefits also – the process of coaching creates continual personal growth. Every coaching call is a learning experience.

Without a coach the path to least resistance is to keep your life the same. With a coach the path to least resistance is to achieve your goals.

By Sandee Crowther, Coaching School Results Coach

TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

ATTENTION

TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES UPCOMING

APRIL 10-13, 2008

DALLAS, TX AREA (FARMERS BRANCH, TX)

Call or email for details: Kathy Kee 972-948-0450
ronkatkee@centurytel.net

Being Offered:

Seminar: Strategies for Powerful Living and Leading – designed for personal and professional transformation via five life and work strategies.
Seminar: Strategies for Powerful Coaching Level II - provides knowledge, skills and attitudes to support your goal of becoming a coach. Requires pre-requisite of Strategies for Powerful Living and Leading or Ledership Coaching for High Performance.
Seminar: Instructional Coaching for Results – designed to support the work of instructional content coaches by deepening their coaching knowledge and skills.

DETAILS

When we want the best health, we seek a doctor; when we want the most inspired learning, we find the masterful teacher; when we desire peak performance, we seek a gifted coach.

Give yourself the gift of coaching from a committed trained Coach who serves to support your confidential goals and dreams. Imagine the possibilities ... a goal made clear, a plan evolved, a tough situation offering multiple solutions. Coaching School Results, Inc. has the most dedicated and prepared coaches to serve you for whatever time you can commit. Give yourself the gift of coaching for a month, six months or a year. You will be amazed by the return on your investment in YOU!

Leadership Coaching for High Performance

Leadership inspires high performance. This seminar will provide any leader with the most essential skills of coaching language that will produce reflective practice and increased performance. As we consider the many roles one has as a leader, powerful and effective communication skills are the link and source of effectiveness. Focus on the power of committed listening, paraphrasing, presuming positive intent, and communicative feedback while gaining depth of each skill in coaching labs that accelerate knowledge and skill.

4 days - $649

4 days of seminar style COACHING TRAINING to support Instructional Coaches in a school or district.

Taught by Professional Certified Coaches with depth of knowledge and skills to support teachers and outcomes for high STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.

Host the training for your folks and invite others. Call for details and dates you desire. We will plan to meet your needs. Call Kathryn Kee 972-948-0450.

Deepen knowledge and application of powerful communication skills that focus on results for students by

Practicing committed listening and eloquent speaking with paraphrasing, positive presumption, and self-mediative feedback
Connecting conversation skills to Walk Through processes
Using tools and frameworks for difficult and critical conversations
Becoming intentional in all conversations

2 days plus optional follow up Coaching
Offered by Professional Certified Coaches
Host a session and invite others.
Call Kathy Kee for details 972-948-0450

Services to Support Your District or School

CONTACT
COACHING SCHOOL RESULTS, INC.

FOR SPECIAL TRAINING FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION OR DISTRICT.

ESPECIALLY DESIGNED TRAINING AVAILABLE FOR LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES, COMMUNICATION SKILLS OR COACHING SKILLS.

Let us help you design your best experience ever for your leaders and staff! Remarkable references available!

Contact Information:
Vicky Dearing, Business Manager
2258 Magic Mantle
Lewisville, TX 75056
Cell: 214.493.2503
Email: vicky@coachingschoolresults.com

"MENTORING SUPPORT FOR
COACHES-IN-TRAINING"

TRAINING DATES ARE MONTHLY BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

Registration Fee: $649.00

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