Coaching Skills
Creating a Coaching Culture
How would you describe the culture of your school? How did your school arrive at this culture? Organizations of all sizes and types exhibit their own culture, which is developed intentionally or perhaps by default or inattention, or past practices. Realizing the importance of intentionally creating a culture of openness, engagement, fairness, trust, and reflective practices is…
Read MoreKathy Kee on Principal Center Radio Podcast
Kathy Kee, one of the Results Coaching Global partners and co-author of RESULTS COACHING: Next Steps, was recently joined Justin Baeder on Principal Center Radio to discuss our new book. You can listen to the interview at this link.
Read MoreFeedback AND Evaluation: Two Pieces of the Growth Puzzle
Imagine teachers saying . . . “give me more” . . . “your feedback is critical to my ongoing growth as a professional.” Well, that is a reality in more and more schools. Schools are making the shift to a coaching culture with a growth mindset that presumes positive intent. And, they are using the…
Read MorePerfecting our Reflective Feedback
Some of the most compelling reasons to practice reflective feedback come from the TNTP study called The Irreplaceables, which focuses on the real retention crisis: failure to retain the right teachers. The study’s conclusions demand our attention with regard to feedback. Defined, the irreplaceables are “teachers who are so successful they are nearly impossible to…
Read MoreChoosing When to Give Feedback
As educators, our days are full of opportunities for giving reflective feedback. Typically, one of two situations appears as the time for giving feedback. One is the cycle of listen and give feedback; the other is observe and give feedback. Both are opportunities for growth. Listen and Give Feedback. Listening and giving feedback is an…
Read MoreOrganizational Culture – A Living Definition of a Shared Reality and Overall Success
When you look out across the dynamics of your workplace culture, what do you see? And, as you describe what you see, how clear is your view? How does it compare with those who live and work within the same culture? Where, if anyplace, might there be obstructions in your view – obstructions that are unintentional…
Read MoreResults Coaching Next Steps: Leading for Growth and Change
We are extremely excited to announce our soon to be published book Results Coaching Next Steps: Leading for Growth and Change. This book will be coming out in early October and both Corwin Press and Amazon are now taking orders. Buy on Amazon Buy on Corwin Press The writing of this book has been a real…
Read MoreWhy Coaches and Coach Leaders Rely on Positive Psychology
Let’s face it – negative feelings are a reality and are based on the brain’s attempt to protect us as well as some habitual patterns of behavior that do not necessarily give us the results that we want. In fact, negative feelings tend to drain us of energy and block our creative and problem-solving behaviors. We…
Read MoreMoving “Listen For” to a Paraphrase
The ezine this month concluded with the reminder of what we “Listen For”: What the person wants Emotion Passion Options, possibilities, potential What is already working Reframes Negative to Positive Problem to Solution Complaint to Commitment Now, let’s put “listen for” together with paraphrasing which we learned in our first book. We learned three kinds of…
Read MoreShifting Conceptual Thinking through a Paraphrase
Earlier this month, you practiced how Listening For can be paraphrased by acknowledging or clarifying what the person wants or by summarizing or organizing the thinking of the person. This practice will focus on the third kind of paraphrase – shifting conceptual thinking which has the potential to accelerate and advance the movement of another’s thinking.…
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