Brain-Based Coaching & Leadership Program Outline

Phase 1

- Zoom meeting with the Principal, Head Master or CEO

- Collaboration with the leadership team to refine aims

- Site visit to meet team in context if possible.

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Phase 2

- Pre-professional reading

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Phase 3

- Face to face workshop, 2 days

- How to build your leadership strength and foundations of coaching

- Select a peer coach to support each other through the leadership journey. The content is research based and will explore some of the following:

• Okojo mindset protocol (Newman)

• 17 Trust behaviours (Newman)

• Contribute and agitate state (Newman)

• Approach and avoid response (Gordon)

• Icecap model of Influence (Newman)

• Values (Collins)

• Purpose (Sinek)

• Feedback (Williams)

• The learning pit (Nottingham)

• Brain (Rossouw & Willis; Cacioppo; Cozolino; Gordon; Kennedy, Immordino-Yang; Perry)

• Perceptual positions (Psychology)

• Positive framing (Lemov)

• Knowing your impact on others (Scott)

• High performance teams (Stebbins, Wagner, Collins)

• Distributed leadership (Dunbar)

• Change leadership (Cotter & Waters et al)

• 12 Attributes of Inspirational and influential leadership (Newman)

• The SIM model (Newman)

• Motivation response model (Newman)

- Participants collect feedback from colleagues and supervisor around their leadership behaviours using the Leadership Attribute Reflective Took to assess their strengths and gaps. Personality profiling.

Phase 4

- Practice coaching with peers and teams in context at work.

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Phase 5

- Face to face workshop, 1 day master class.

- Scale up strategic leadership influence.

- Differentiating your leadership approach to manage, mentor and coach.

- Opportunity to deepen your coaching experience.

- Journey deeper into the neuroscience research.

- Feedback is analysed.

• Time management (Newman 2018)

• Change management (Cotter; Waters et al)

• Strategic leadership layers (Newman, 2019)

• Accountability chart (Newman & Stebbins, 2019)

• Ways to influence (Newman et al)

• How to have a hard conversation and keep the relationship intact (Newman, 2019)

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Phase 6

- Executive coaching session: Zoom group coaching session to support the team’s strategic leadership development and their leadership challenge project.

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Phase 7

- Select a ‘on the job - in the job’ leadership challenge

- Leadership Challenge project

- Participants identify a leadership task from the corporate improvement agenda within their normal role, in consultation with the Principal/Head Master/CEO.

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Phase 8

- Face to face graduation, one day. (Within six months after master class)

• Presentation of 5min ‘Ted Talk’ of their leadership challenge to show evidence of how they have scaled up their leadership using their coaching skill set to make a difference.

• Share and collaborate on insights and learnings.

• Award executive coaching participation certificates to participants who have chosen to complete the written component of the coaching course. 

• Deepen coaching experience.

• Using a suite of learning conversations for different contexts.

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Assessment for graduation:

• Log four coaching sessions

• Complete the leadership table assessment talk (Questions and answers)

• Five minute Ted style talk to share leadership insights

• Coaching Judi for feedback

• Attendance to the four days

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