Essential Coaching Skills Programme For School Leaders

Many norms adopted to survive during the pandemic are no longer necessary. Yet, it would appear that many schools are struggling to help staff remember what life was like before COVID and how adults behaved before directives, bubbles, and remote learning became the norm.

Indeed, schools are now discovering that there are long-term effects of COVID that are impacting school culture and that these long-term effects can be just as deleterious as long-COVID. These long-term effects are presenting amongst some staff as:

• Fatigue and burnout
• A reduced sense of agency, ownership and willingness to go “the extra mile”
• Increased disconnection with their purpose and sense of vocation
• Lowered morale
• A loss of collegiality

We are all human and these are understandable responses to the trauma of the past few years. However, left unaddressed, they can significantly impact school performance and staff’s ability to work effectively as a team and to problem solve for themselves.

A direct consequence is that senior leaders can find their workload increasing as staff (maintaining a pandemic mindset) still feel they need to be directed and told what to do.

That’s why our Essential Coaching Skills Programme has been designed to help School Leaders address these specific challenges and develop the skills necessary to empower and enable others.