Coaching Conversations
Transforming Your School One Conversation at a Time
- Linda M. Gross Cheliotes - Coaching For Results, Inc.
- Marceta F. Reilly - Reilly & Associates
Foreword by Simon T Bailey
Focus the power of your collaborative school community with powerful coaching conversations!
Effective coaching conversations are powerful tools to rally your school-community stakeholders to work collaboratively toward transformation, and, ultimately, share in success. The Second Edition of this best-selling handbook includes new neuroscientific research that demonstrates the potential for change in schools and expands the approach to cover teacher/student interaction. In addition to learning techniques to engage and motivate, readers will discover how to:
· Develop relational trust within the school that heightens personal growth and supports student achievement
· Utilize the power of committed listening, intentional conversations, and nonjudgmental feedback
· Create positive changes in how people think and interact
Being a successful school leader has become an increasingly complex role that demands not only tremendous knowledge and skills, but also highly developed interpersonal skills. Written with an easy-to-use approach, this handbook provides simple yet powerful coaching strategies to help school community members work together toward positive school transformation.
| What Is a Coaching Conversation? |
| Why Our Brains Need Coaching |
| Why Trust Matters |
| Holding Difficult Conversations |
| Moving Toward Coaching Conversations |
| Summary |
| Reflections for Practice |
| Leadership Practices Continuum |
| How the Continuum Works in Practice |
| Being a Coach-Like Mentor |
| The Case for Being Coach-Like |
| Summary |
| Reflections for Practice |
| Listening Assessment |
| Moving to Action |
| Components of Committed Listening |
| Verbal and Nonverbal Communication |
| Value Silence |
| Unproductive Patterns of Listening |
| Listen Without Obligation to Act |
| Summary |
| Reflections for Practice |
| Expressing Positive Intent |
| Avoid Advice |
| Ask Powerful Questions |
| Summary |
| Reflections for Practice |
| The Importance of Feedback |
| Three Types of Feedback |
| Options for Offering Meaningful Feedback |
| Responding-on-the-Fly |
| Framing an Important Conversation Using Reflective Feedback |
| Journal Reflection About an Important Upcoming Conversation |
| Using the Reflective Feedback Frame to Support Excellence |
| Reframing Resistance |
| Summary |
| Reflections for Practice |
| The Basic Framework |
| Study 1: Using the Reflective Framework in a Supervisory Coaching Conversatio |
| Study 2: Using the Reflective Framework for Large Scale Challenges |
| Next Steps |
| Summary |
| Reflections for Practice |
| Appendix A: Powerful, Open-Ended Questions |
| Appendix B: Reflective Feedback |
| Appendix C: Reframing Resistance |
| Appendix D: Reflective Feedback Framework for Coaching Conversations |
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| ISBN: 9781544319704 | Electronic Version | Suggested Retail Price: $32.95 | Bookstore Price: $26.36 |
| ISBN: 9781544319711 | Paperback | Suggested Retail Price: $32.95 | Bookstore Price: $26.36 |
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