Facilitated by Richard Cahill (School Improvement Lead at TOVE)

Suitable for established  / new leaders in support roles with responsibility for teams in primary, secondary, alternative provision, and UTC.

Overview

This training will provide you with insight into how to be a more effective leader regardless of your role.

This is a holistic and sustainable approach to leadership with key tools and resources which you can make use of straight away.

Note: This is a repeat of the February 2026 training.

Aims

• Understanding yourself as a leader
• Establishing and articulating your vision
• Managing yourself, your time and resources, and how to get the best out of others.
• Dealing with difficult conversations
• Managing change and sustainable leadership
• Dealing with ‘imposter syndrome’ and improving your wellbeing as a leader

This training is facilitated by James Rawbone

Suitable for all school-based staff new to coaching

Note: This is a repeat of the 2025/2026 training.

Key objectives:

To provide an introduction to coaching by exploring the differences between mentoring and coaching and identifying what are the key principles of effective coaching. The training session will involve facilitated discussion on understanding what coaching is and is not, supported by opportunities for group discussion to unpick key elements of coaching.

There will be a focus on identifying the differences between mentoring and coaching, and the two key fundamentals to effective coaching of listening and responding.

The use of the GROW model to structure a coaching conversation will be explored, along with introducing some tools that can be used to self-evaluate the effectiveness of coaching.

Session Outcomes:

• An understanding of what makes coaching different to mentoring.
• Introduction to skills that can be used to ensure that a coaching conversation is effective.