The Educator as Mentor and Coach

Event: Workshop
Duration: 2 Day Program

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Management of others is much more an art than a science. More and more in today’s dynamic organisations, the nature of a leader’s role is to manage their most important asset—people. Leadership management includes making performance improvement in those who are in our work teams and groups. According to a recent Harvard study, 85% of the reason managers are successful is based on their ability to deal with people while 15% is based on technical knowledge. Leadership management is not just a set of behaviours applied in the same way in all situations to all people, but it is the ability to assess the issue and its people and choose the right skills and applications for the specific situation and specific person. The ability to deal with people includes being able to assess the issues, identify improvements to be made, set goals and objectives to implement the change and then to monitor people behaviour to ensure accountability.

The seminar, The Educator as Mentor and Coach is designed to give educators and administrators an increased understanding of how to lead in managing performance improvements in students, staff and teachers. The course introduces different human styles that can be used for developing productive relationships and identifies and provides practice on techniques in coaching and mentoring people to make improvements in their own educational performance. Every leader has situations that call for motivating, coaching, directing or solving problems with their people. This program assists in identifying and learning techniques to establish a more productive work force using these concepts.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Delegates will learn:

• How to create a high performance culture
• The personal skills involved in performance improvement
• The art of improving student, staff and teacher performance
• Leadership and delegation
• Empowerment and productivity
• The power of agreeing objectives
• The skill of giving feedback in a positive and motivating way
• How to coach for higher performance – empowering people
• How to appraise in a motivating way
• The links to pay and reward
• How to manage development
• The power of personal goals

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The course is an interactive learning adventure that emphasizes collaboration between the instructor and participants and between group participants. The course has a mixture of short lectures on concepts, training videos, followed by discussion, activities, and role-playing for reinforcement, then actual interpersonal interaction in the seminar to demonstrate concepts and techniques.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

The course is designed for educators, administrators and staff who desires to learn practical management techniques that will assist them in helping improve employees’ and student performance using coaching and mentoring techniques. The course is appropriate for those who are responsible for managing any type of person, group or team or those who want to learn some skills to be able to better manage their work. The course will benefit anyone who desires to develop more productive improvement and human interaction skills that will improve performance.

ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACT

• Build and maintain productivity through enhanced work performance within schools or school district
• Recognize and develop personal and others’ personal interaction skills
• Develop skills in generating positive working relationships through coaching and mentoring
• Understand the complex levels of interpersonal interactions necessary to achieve personal improvement goals and objectives
• Develop management skill in correcting and improving employee and student performance
• Develop improved performance in setting standards and completion of goals
• Be able to develop key results to track and monitor work performance

PERSONAL IMPACT

• Demonstrate proficiency in improving performance
• Be able to recognize personal and others’ varied behavior styles to create and maintain work camaraderie
• Learn to coach others to develop effective plans for improving relationships
• Understand the importance of “seeking first to understand then be understood”
• Learn skills in coaching so others can develop effective self improvement plans
• Develop skills in interpersonal interaction to work effectively with others
• Recognize techniques to assist others to develop personal plans and make good decisions

COMPETENCIES EMPHASIZED

• Performance Management
• Communication Skill and Management
• Interpersonal Human Interaction Skill
• Diversity Understanding
• Positive Human Relations
• Change Management
• Delegation and Mentoring

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Instructional Methodology

Developed by experts in instructional design, these training materials combine interactive training techniques with sound methodology. The design is built on the principles that adults learn best when training:

* Involves the participants.
* Can be immediately applied to the work environment.
* Includes "learning by doing."
* Is interactive, fun, and motivational.
* Uses a three-phased approach including pre and post-workshop assignments.
* Includes flip charts, workbooks and planning tools, role plays, exercises, and discussions.

Learning Environment

An organization's success and leadership in the 21st century depends upon its ability to rapidly change and grow. Organizations must meet the multiple demands of a changing marketplace with continuous learning and new skills. The Corporate, College and Educator Learning Environment illustrates how an organization can set up a system of continuous growth and improvement to maintain the desired outcome of a highly productive workplace in the new global competitive market.