Coaching Conversations

Transforming Your School One Conversation at a Time
Second Edition
Linda M. Gross Cheliotes - Coaching For Results, Inc.
Marceta F. Reilly - Reilly & Associates
Coaching Conversations
April 2018 | 128 pages | Corwin
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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.

Contents

Foreword by Simon T. Bailey

Foreword by Simon T. Bailey

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

1. Coaching Conversations: The Link to Change

  • What Is a Coaching Conversation?
  • Why Our Brains Need Coaching
  • Why Trust Matters
  • Holding Difficult Conversations
  • Moving Toward Coaching Conversations
  • Summary
  • Reflections for Practice

2. Coaching, Mentoring and the Leadership Continuum

  • Leadership Practices Continuum
  • How the Continuum Works in Practice
  • Being a Coach-Like Mentor
  • The Case for Being Coach-Like
  • Summary
  • Reflections for Practice

3. Committed Listening

  • 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

4. Powerful Speaking and Questioning

  • Expressing Positive Intent
  • Avoid Advice
  • Ask Powerful Questions
  • Summary
  • Reflections for Practice

5. Reflective Feedback

  • 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

6. Moving to Action: A Way of Being

  • 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

Appendices

  • Appendix A: Powerful, Open-Ended Questions
  • Appendix B: Reflective Feedback
  • Appendix C: Reframing Resistance
  • Appendix D: Reflective Feedback Framework for Coaching Conversations

References

References

Index

Index

Description

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.

Contents

Foreword by Simon T. Bailey

Foreword by Simon T. Bailey

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

About the Authors

1. Coaching Conversations: The Link to Change

  • What Is a Coaching Conversation?
  • Why Our Brains Need Coaching
  • Why Trust Matters
  • Holding Difficult Conversations
  • Moving Toward Coaching Conversations
  • Summary
  • Reflections for Practice

2. Coaching, Mentoring and the Leadership Continuum

  • Leadership Practices Continuum
  • How the Continuum Works in Practice
  • Being a Coach-Like Mentor
  • The Case for Being Coach-Like
  • Summary
  • Reflections for Practice

3. Committed Listening

  • 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

4. Powerful Speaking and Questioning

  • Expressing Positive Intent
  • Avoid Advice
  • Ask Powerful Questions
  • Summary
  • Reflections for Practice

5. Reflective Feedback

  • 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

6. Moving to Action: A Way of Being

  • 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

Appendices

  • Appendix A: Powerful, Open-Ended Questions
  • Appendix B: Reflective Feedback
  • Appendix C: Reframing Resistance
  • Appendix D: Reflective Feedback Framework for Coaching Conversations

References

References

Index

Index

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Coaching Conversations

Transforming Your School One Conversation at a Time

Linda M. Gross Cheliotes , Marceta F. Reilly
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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.


Table Of Contents:

  • Foreword by Simon T. Bailey
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • 1. Coaching Conversations: The Link to Change
  • What Is a Coaching Conversation?
  • Why Our Brains Need Coaching
  • Why Trust Matters
  • Holding Difficult Conversations
  • Moving Toward Coaching Conversations
  • Summary
  • Reflections for Practice
  • 2. Coaching, Mentoring and the Leadership Continuum
  • Leadership Practices Continuum
  • How the Continuum Works in Practice
  • Being a Coach-Like Mentor
  • The Case for Being Coach-Like
  • Summary
  • Reflections for Practice
  • 3. Committed Listening
  • 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
  • 4. Powerful Speaking and Questioning
  • Expressing Positive Intent
  • Avoid Advice
  • Ask Powerful Questions
  • Summary
  • Reflections for Practice
  • 5. Reflective Feedback
  • 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
  • 6. Moving to Action: A Way of Being
  • 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
  • Appendices
  • Appendix A: Powerful, Open-Ended Questions
  • Appendix B: Reflective Feedback
  • Appendix C: Reframing Resistance
  • Appendix D: Reflective Feedback Framework for Coaching Conversations
  • References
  • Index

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