1 to 1 Coaching for Headteachers
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As a Headteacher, you do an amazing job. Every day, you work hard to create a better future for our children and transform the communities you serve.
This is no small task, particularly in light of current global challenges! In addition, wide-scale policy changes and ever-increasing accountability measures remain endemic within the profession and have only added to the pressures felt by many Headteachers.
Unsurprisingly, this has led to many Headteachers feeling overwhelmed, overburdened and overworked and many are struggling to find ways to cope.
Risks for Headteachers
- Mounting stress and accompanying feelings of anxiety and self-doubt
- Feelings of disconnection from their role, vocation and purpose
- A fear of failure and being judged unfairly in a climate of increasingly high accountability and personal scrutiny
- The diminishment of local networks of support and accompanying feelings of loneliness and isolation
- The impact of the pressures of school life on their personal lives and life outside of school
Our Solution
At Integrity Coaching, we provide a safe, supportive space for school leaders to reflect, gain clarity, and reconnect with their purpose. Our Depth Coaching approach is specifically designed to help leaders navigate this critical phase of their lives, guiding them toward greater self-awareness, resilience, and long-term fulfilment.
Through our coaching, leaders regain their sense of purpose and confidence, enabling them to lead with renewed strength and a clear vision for the future.
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What is School Leadership Coaching?
Our coaching seeks to provide you with a regular opportunity to explore the issues of importance to you and your school. It aims to create a safe, confidential space where you can:
- Reflect upon and develop your leadership practice, your behaviours and beliefs
- Share your thoughts, worries and concerns
- Explore what you want out of life as a school leader
What to Expect
We know that you wouldn’t be where you are now if you didn’t have the capabilities to lead your school. That’s why we will never try to tell you how you should lead your school.
Instead, through our coaching processes, we seek to help you develop your own strategies for leading and succeeding as a school leader.
Our Hope for You
We want you to embrace Headship in a way that allows for both your personal and professional needs to be fully met as a Human Being as above all, we want you to flourish!
After coaching with us, we hope you will feel valued, uplifted and inspired to continue creating better futures for our children.
Our Goal
Our goal is to help you excel in overcoming the challenges of School Leadership and to keep hold of your humanity, joy and love for the profession. To achieve that we:
- Start where you are
- Identify where you want to get to
- Help you identify patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that may be limiting your progress
- Empower you to be courageous and develop the personal and professional tools needed for success
- Help you celebrate your strengths and everything positive that you bring to your leadership journey
A Research Report into the Impact of Leadership Coaching in Schools
Learn how coaching supports sustainable and effective leadership in schools in the Leeds Beckett University Research report into the impact of our coaching services.
What are the benefits of Coaching?
NFER: Mentoring and Coaching for Professionals: A study of research evidence – 2009
Research from this study found that when offered as a support mechanism for School Leaders the following benefits were found to be in evidence.
Support the Well-Being of School Leaders
Coaching supports the psychological well-being and confidence of School Leaders. Headship can be professionally isolating and so School Leaders need opportunities where they can explore the challenges of the role, be listened to and identify solutions that can best support them in their role. Above all, a happy and healthy School Leader leads to a happy and healthy school.
Enhances Leadership Skills
Coaching deepens leadership knowledge, skills and practice and develops leaders’ problem solving and creativity. As a result, time is used more productively for overcoming complex challenges and school improvement initiatives are able to make greater impact.
Increased Emotional Resilience
Coaching helps to build the emotional resilience of School Leaders by enabling leaders to reflect on challenges they are facing and how to overcome them. Coaching provides a space where Heads can identify new tools and ways of thinking and being, that will better equip them for facing and dealing with crises and struggles when they arise.
Develops Self-Awareness and Self-Management
Coaching enhances leaders’ reflection and thinking skills and allows Heads to become more self-aware and better at self-management. This results in leaders who know how to build on their strengths and address areas for development in themselves. Leaders are then able to transfer this learning to deal more successfully with others.
Improves Communication and Relationship Management
Coaching has been shown to help build Heads’ communication and relationship management skills. After coaching, Heads feel more able to handle difficult conversations which helps to reduce conflict and promotes greater harmony across all relationships.How do our Coaching Processes work?
All our coaching processes are bespoke, personalised and focus on four key areas to help you to uncover the tools that you need for building excellence in yourself and others.
Vision
Achieving clarity about what you want for yourself and your school
Values
Strengthening your moral purpose and ability to make the right (and sometimes tough) choices
Beliefs
Creating positive beliefs about what can be achieved, to help realise your own strengths and capabilities
Behaviours
Embedding new behaviours to support the development of excellence in yourself and others
Testimonials
Integrity Coaching provides the type of services that every School Leader needs; independence, compassionate and understanding: expert coaches who listen to you and work with you in a humane way, to bring to life the particular vision that you have for the staff and pupils in your school.
Michael Rosen
School Governor, Author & former Children’s Poet Laureate
" Coaching sessions have enabled me to focus on personal goals within the workplace and have made me allocate time within my working week to focus on important issues. My coach prompted me to consider dealing with a difficult professional relationship within work and to find a solution to improving this from my perspective. Mark has been an excellent coach, helping me to develop a succession plan in readiness for my retirement and coaching me through a solution-focused approach to managing a difficult work-based relationship. This has been the best coaching experience I have had."
"My coaching journey with Viv was a truly foundational part of my development as a school leader. The coaching sessions were brilliant, they offered me the space, time, and challenge I needed to clarify my leadership vision and translate it into meaningful action. Viv’s expertise, compassion, and skill created an environment where I could reflect deeply, grow in confidence, and strengthen my ability to lead with integrity. The impact of that work has stayed with me throughout my leadership journey, and I remain incredibly grateful for the role Viv played in helping me become the leader I am today."
"What I’ve learnt from being a Headteacher is that the job may not get any easier but what changes is your ability to deal with it and that’s how Integrity Coaching has helped me. The coaching relationship has supported me to better manage and overcome the stresses of School Leadership, particularly when other people are involved. It has helped me become a nicer person to be around in school and my staff have really noticed the difference. I’m also just so much more efficient after coaching, you can just get so much more out of me now. I think that’s played a significant role in contributing to my school’s performance."
“Viv’s vast experience enabled her to analyse our discussions an get to the nuts and bolts of the situation very quickly. I can safely say that Integrity Coaching will meet your specific needs and provide you with the tools to improve, even if practice is already deemed outstanding.”
“My time with Integrity Coaching gave me the environment and space to examine my motivations and my thoughts. They helped me reflect on why I do the things that I do, in the way that I do them. In doing so, they were able to bring me back to what motivated me to do this job in the first place. They showed me how to get back in control, renew my purpose and zeal for my job. I quickly developed more confidence and self-belief and I have since seen the impact it has had on the rest of my school, from my SLT, the children to the governors.”
“Integrity’s coaching allowed me to truly appreciate the importance of leading by example and modelling the self-care that I wanted to see in my team. After Coaching, I began to look after myself more carefully and in doing so, I was able to notice how when I feel better, I’m also able to lead better.”
