The Head Coach is a package of professional development coaching designed especially for head teachers and senior managers in schools

A programme of coaching about motivation, confidence and direction – management with purpose.

Head teachers and School Leadership teams have a high demand placed on them to produce results. Maintain your success without increasing the pressure to overload.  Retain your self esteem, have a work-life balance and protecting your health by keeping stress under control.

The Head Coach invites you to consider where you and your school are now and where you want to be in the future.   The programme also gives you the space to consider and create the kind of place you want to work in -  a caring, healthy school that nurtures a postive attitude towards all staff.  A place where everyone feels valued.  Where you get support to work in ways that increase your effectiveness without increasing stress.  Most of all, where you feel you have a right to a work-life balance and feel in control of your career.

The Head Coach offers a programme that allows you to take control in a climate of constant change.  It offers learning opportunities for you and your colleagues to develop working practises that respect your right to a happy, healthy personal and professional life.

You can do this through workshops and/or by working 1-2-1 with one of our fully qualified coaches.

You and your coach can create strategies for getting there.

Your coach is the catalyst you need to empower yourself to take you and your school forward.

What makes coaching different? One of the basic principles of coaching is that we all have within us the resources we need to do whatever it is we need to do. People know how to delegate, they know how to do their job well, people have ideas about how to make their work better. You know the theory - coaching gives permission to empower yourself to use these inner resources. 

It leads to people being more motivated. It leads to people realising that they are responsible for their world – for taking the action that leads to a better relationship with their work. Ultimately, it leads to a vast improvement in well-being, a reduction in stress and an improvement in performance.

Research by Olivero, Bane and Kopelman showed that training alone raises performance at work by around 22%. 

• When training was combined with coaching, performance was raised by a massive 88%.
• Leaders of state and industry use coaching because they know it works. 
• Head Teachers and School Leadership teams have a tremendous responsibility. 
• The Head Coach programme is coaching for the future.

In addition, PRF Solutions can help with Sustainable Professional Development in your school.  This programme is about combining training and coaching to increase the value of your investment in training and development.

We can also help by running half day workshops that give practical coaching tools and techniques for anyone with management or supervisory responsibilities. These can be arranged around your own staff or smaller schools may find it more cost effective to arrange a workshop in partnership with other schools.

We use only qualified professional coaches who have a genuine interest in education and your success.  We are members of:

• The Institute of Leadership and Management
• The Association for Coaching
• The Society of Educational Consultants.

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