Sustainable Professional Development

How often have you attended training events, learned new and exciting techniques that could improve your life - at work or elsewhere?  You know if you could implement your new learning, you could get your work-life balance under control, support colleagues, meet EMC outcomes, add value to your SEF/Ofsted actions, etc.  You know that with your new learning your school make great improvements.

BUT...

You've missed a day (possibly more), work has piled up, something has happened and it needs your attention now...

This is what Warren Bennis termed the "unconscious conspiracy" in his book "Why Leaders Can't Lead."  We react to the urgent things and end up with no time for the important, life changing things. 

 Reseach carried out in 1997 called "Executive Coaching as a transfer training tool" showed that, on average, training alone increased a manager's productivity by 22%.  By adding 1:1 coaching after the training, the increase in productivity rose to 88%."

Here at The Head Coach we know that our Sustainable Professional Development Programme will help school leaders embed teacher learning within their school.  The programme is a mix of workshop training and leadership coaching.  It aims to give school leaders the  coaching skills that ensure that their school's investment in training and development isn't lost to the "unconscious conspiracy" that stops leaders from leading...

If you would like more information on how this can work for your school send us an email.