Team Coaching
We support School Leadership Teams with coaching designed to help them lead effectively and overcome the challenges of their roles.
Every School Leadership Team has the desire to work effectively for the benefit of every staff member and child in their school.
However, as many SLT team members will testify, working together for the success of everyone is not always a goal that is easily achieved. Inevitably challenges arise.
When School Leadership Teams experience any of the challenges, leading as a collective becomes burdensome and impacts performance.
If your team is struggling with these challenges, then Coaching for School Leadership Teams could be right for your school.
Challenges for School Leadership Teams
- Disagreement on how goals can be achieved
- Personality and work style conflict
- Poor levels of communication
- Confusion over roles and responsibilities
- Blurred lines of accountability
- Lack of understanding about effective team processes
How Does Coaching Support School Leadership Teams?
Watch this short video of senior leaders we’ve worked with discussing the impact that coaching has had in their schools.
What the Programme Covers
- Exploring leadership team dynamics – how behaviour, communication and power shape collaboration
- Building shared leadership frameworks that strengthen collective responsibility
- Aligning vision, values and purpose to guide leadership decisions
- Supporting collective wellbeing so leadership teams – and their schools – can thrive
Outcomes
- Deeper professional trust and psychological safety within the team
- More effective, joined-up leadership and decision-making
- Clearer, more open and more honest communication across the team
What to Expect
We provide coaching support designed to help your SLT:
- Establish a process for holding meetings where all team members feel safe, valued, listened to and understood
- Facilitate an open, constructive and supportive dialogue
- Become more resilient, collaborative and solution-focused.
- Understand why conflicts arise and how to positively address issues when they do
- Build coherence around strategy, systems and policy implementation
- Develop their resilience and ability to work collaboratively through the ups and downs of school life
3 Core Values
All our work with schools is bespoke. We do not adopt a ‘one size fits all’ approach. We understand that every school is unique, and that context, circumstance and challenge will be different for every SLT.
However, there are three core values around which our approach is built:
By its very nature, coaching supports innovation, creativity and the creation of cultures, that are closely linked to a school’s vision.
We work with SLT’s to develop powerful learning, supported by key relationships to help release creative energy for positive change.
Central to our work is the commitment to support teachers and School Leaders to keep their hope and love for the profession alive.
When we embark on any work with an SLT we begin by helping SLT’s to reconnect with what matters most, their purpose, their hope and their vision.
Coaching can only be successful when it is collaborative. Our coaching brings together the knowledge and expertise of our schools and ourselves as coaches.
It’s also why our sessions and learning intentions are always agreed together. This ensures they fit closely with a school’s desired outcomes.
Book A Free Exploratory Call
Explore how we can support your School Leadership Team
Schedule a call to discuss how coaching can help your team overcome the challenges your school are facing.
What makes our SLT coaching different from others?
Liz Sproat (Associate Coach, Integrity Coaching) shares why our SLT coaching is unique and the benefits for school leaders as well as why she loves leading this programme.
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.
School Leadership Team Case Study
Arnhem Wharf Primary School
As a school that was expanding its senior leadership team at Arnhem Wharf had to develop and implement a strategy for addressing the challenges that accompany growth. Key aspects of the plan were linked very closely to increasing the leadership capacity of adults at:
- Senior Management level
- Middle Management level
- Support staff level
Learn more about how Integrity Coaching helped to increase leadership capacity and improve performance in a large inner city primary school.
Testimonial
Testimonials
"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.”
