Leadership – developing a coaching culture in your school Andrew Blench School Business Partner SBM Dinnington High School until August 2016. SBM Consultant and Coach since then, trading as School Business Partner. Completed my PGCert in Personal and Business Coaching in 2017 with Barefoot Coaching and the University of Chester School Business Partner - www.schoolbusinesspartner.co.uk

Take home points from today What coaching is and why it works An introduction to different coaching models Dissecting prevalent cultures in school How a school which has a coaching culture looks and feels different How to introduce and embed a coaching culture in your school Overview of our W.A.L.T. School Business Partner - www.schoolbusinesspartner.co.uk

What is coaching? The International Coaching Federation defines coaching as ' partnering with clients in a thought provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximise their personal and professional potential‘ “…a process that enables learning and development to occur and thus performance to improve. To be successful a Coach requires a knowledge and understanding of process as well as the variety of styles, skills and techniques that are appropriate to the context in which the coaching takes place.” (Parsloe, 1995, p18) The definition by Whitmore (1992, p8) is perhaps in sharp contrast: “ Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximise their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.” https://vimeo.com/119284008 School Business Partner - www.schoolbusinesspartner.co.uk

What coaching isn’t! Mentoring Therapy Consulting Training Punishment School Business Partner - www.schoolbusinesspartner.co.uk

So how does it work then? The coach’s skill set includes:- Listening to encourage thinking Asking powerful questions Paraphrasing and summarising Giving and receiving feedback A Way of Being Listening cards exercise in pairs, once explained each of the points School Business Partner - www.schoolbusinesspartner.co.uk

Different coaching models The G.R.O.W. Model (Whitmore, 2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6f3X2PEsV-Q O.S.C.A.R. (Andrew, 2009) C.I.G.A.R. (Cook, 2009) GROW – Goal, Reality, Opportunity/Options, Way forward/Will OSCAR – Outcome, Situation, Choices and Consequences, Actions, Review CIGAR – Current Situation, Ideal Outcome, Gap between C and I, Action Plan, Review School Business Partner - www.schoolbusinesspartner.co.uk

Different coaching models GROW – Goal, Reality, Opportunity/Options, Way forward/Will. Practice GROW in pairs, 10 minutes. School Business Partner - www.schoolbusinesspartner.co.uk

What is a coaching culture? Clutterbuck and Megginson (2005) define a coaching culture as;- `Coaching is the predominant style of working together, and where a commitment to grow the organization is embedded in a parallel commitment to grow the people in the organization'. Organisational Culture - One of the best-known definition is that of Edgar Schein, who describes it as: ‘The pattern of basic assumptions that a given group has invented, discovered, were developed in learning to cope with its problems of external adaption and internal integration, and that it works well enough to be considered valid and therefore to be taught to new members is the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to these problems’ (1983). School Business Partner - www.schoolbusinesspartner.co.uk

The components of a COACHING CULTURE A clearly stated business strategy – School Improvement Plan/Developing Excellence Plan Leadership buy into coaching and lead by example in terms of receiving coaching and coaching others Managers/Leaders/Internal Coaches have received accredited coaching training A feature of the operations of the organisation with dedicated resources (people, time, budget allocation) for coaching Employees understand the difference between ‘Mentoring’ and ‘Coaching’ A programme of accredited training and on-going CPD for coaching differentiated by role School Business Partner - www.schoolbusinesspartner.co.uk

The components of a COACHING CULTURE ‘The way we do things here’ therefore built into recruitment, induction, management/leadership training Less of a ‘top down’ approach to line management; more collaboration Coaching built into role competencies for managers and leaders Lots of mutual respect and recognition Goal setting behaviour as standard On-going coaching communities Public recognition, reward and celebration for coaching Identification and development of future coaching talent in the organisation School Business Partner - www.schoolbusinesspartner.co.uk

advantages Increased employee engagement Improved operational performance Staff recruitment, retention and succession planning improved Improved PR and external image Greater communications and team work A Happy Place to be School Business Partner - www.schoolbusinesspartner.co.uk

How to introduce it at school It starts with YOU – ‘Be the change you want to see in the world’ M Ghandi Discuss this with your SLT and in particular your CPD Lead – sell the benefits/ gain commitment Get an expressed commitment to this as ‘the way we do things around here’ and stated in your SIP/DEP documents Celebrate, recognise, encourage and support a coaching approach when you see it in school Resource coaching – training, books and resources dedicated time Look at your people processes – recruitment, induction, performance management School Business Partner - www.schoolbusinesspartner.co.uk

Further resources ‘An Introduction to Coaching Skills – A Practical Guide ‘ Christian Van Nieuwerburgh Clutterbuck, D. and Megginson, D. (2005) Making Coaching Work: Creating a Coaching Culture. London: CIPD. Human Capital Institute (2014). Building a Coaching Culture. Retrieved 23/08/17 from https://www.coachfederation.org/about/landing.cfm?ItemNumber=3674&_ga=2.14 7863863.1074933722.1503310815- 1842604546.1499894604&RDtoken=34428&userID= Knight and Poppleton. (2008) Developing Coaching Capability in Organisations. London: CIPD Coaching for Performance – John Whitmore School Business Partner - www.schoolbusinesspartner.co.uk