Supportive Interaction This 2-day Supportive Interaction course provides an understanding of how and when to use coaching, collaborating, and consulting while supporting other professionals. The focus on the three stances includes appropriate language, sentence stems, and strategies for accessing growth potential in the protégé. There are opportunities to practice the new strategies, language and stems while interacting in your professional context. Furthermore, participants learn how to identify the protégé's goals while focusing on improving instruction. This course allows for reflection on the coaching process professionally, personally and as an observer. Supportive Interaction is designed for facilitators, coaches, administrators, mentors, or other educators working with adults in a supportive role. During day 2 you will discuss a plan for the facilitator to visit you in your building to observe you having a coaching conversation and will then coach you around that conversation.
Crucial Conversations Crucial Conversations is a two-day course that teaches skills for creating alignment and agreement by fostering open dialogue around high-stakes, emotional, or risky topics at all levels of your school and community. By learning how to speak and be heard (and encouraging others to do the same), you'll begin to surface the best ideas, make the highest-quality decisions, and then act on your decisions with unity and commitment. Benefits of Crucial Conversations include an increase in productivity, quality, teamwork, relationships, performance, and efficiency. As a participant, you will have the opportunity to engage in extensive in-class practice, group participation, and personal reflection as the Crucial Conversation skills are explored and mastered. Crucial Conversations is intended for facilitators, coaches, administrators, mentors, and teachers; almost anyone looking to be more effective when having difficult conversations.
Influencer Influencer Training provides the skills you need to change the behavior of others. The course is highly effective for those without formal authority as well as emerging leaders. Influencer provides opportunities to learn how to identify high-leverage behaviors, diagnose the real causes behind behavior problems, effectively motivate and enable others, and create behavior-change strategies that yield rapid, lasting results. A combination of live training, compelling videos, and a written toolkit will be utilized. Participants will engage in extensive in-class practice, group discussions, and personal planning. Crucial Conversations is a pre-requisite for Influencer, as it builds off of core concepts found in that course.
Crucial Accountability Crucial Accountability is a one-day course that teaches a step-by-step process for enhancing accountability, improving performance, and ensuring execution. By learning how to talk about violated expectations in a way that solves problems while improving relationships, you'll improve individual, team, and organizational effectiveness. Crucial Accountability is intended for administrators or team leads who hold others accountable in a building or PLC environment. Crucial Conversations is a pre-requisite for this course.