Chapters International

Overview:

For more than two decades, Growth Coaching International (GCI) has been the leading provider of coaching professional development in Australia and New Zealand. Now the Instructional Coaching Group (ICG) is excited to partner with GCI to start offering their content with ours for educational leaders around the world.

This institute brings together two of GCI and ICG’s most popular and important workshops to address two critical elements of leadership - communication and coaching. Specifically, the two-day session will explore the communication beliefs and habits described in Jim Knight’s Better Conversations: Coaching Ourselves to be More Credible, Caring, and Connected (2016) and the coaching skills, process, and way of being described in John Campbell and Christian van Nieuwerburgh’s The Leader’s Guide to Coaching in Schools: Creating Conditions for Effective Learning (2018).

AGENDA:

Day 1: Better Leaders

Effective communication strategies are essential for professional success. To make a significant, positive impact, leaders must communicate their message clearly, build healthy emotional connections with others, and maneuver through emotionally complex situations so to speak the truth in ways that will be heard.

Effective communication strategies are even more important in people’s personal lives. We live our lives in relationships, and much of the joy or unhappiness we experience is the direct result of our relationships with others. Effective communication strategies enable us to live happier, more fulfilling lives by enabling us to experience healthier personal relationships.

During Day One, Better Conversations, participants will:

Identify their own beliefs about communication by exploring the six Better Conversation Beliefs.
Learn the ten Better Conversation Habits.
practice using the Better Conversation Habits in experiential learning activites.
self-coach themselves on their use of the Better Conversation habits.
leave the session with (a) new habits that should have an immediate, positive impact on their ability to communicate at work and at home, and (b) a self-coaching strategy they can use to continue improving their communication skills long after they leave the institute.

Day 2: Leader as Coach

To lead change effectively, leaders need to know how to coach others effectively.

During the second day of the institute, participants will learn how a strong coaching process and key coaching skills can make a significant and immediate difference to the many conversations in which school leaders engage every day.

During Day Two, Coach as Leader, participants will:

Gain a clear understanding of what coaching is and how it is similar to and different from other ‘learning though talking’ interactions
Explore the difference between ‘coaching’ and ‘a coaching approach’ and when to use each
Build confidence to use the GROWTH coaching framework
Develop familiarity with the elements of the GROWTH Coaching System
Provide a practical way of setting and achieving professional goals
Provide an opportunity for direct experience of the impact of coaching conversations applied to real education topics
Consolidate coaching knowledge, skills and confidence as a result of practice with reflection and feedback

This institute is designed to provide participants with an intensive learning experience leading to a deep understanding of coaching skills anyone can use, a coaching way of being, a proven coaching process, and the better conversations beliefs and habits.

POTENTIAL AUDIENCE:

The institute is appropriate for anyone who wants to improve their communication and coaching skills, but it is especially designed for educational leaders and coaches in leadership positions.

Jim Knight

Jim Knight, Senior Partner of ICG, is a research associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. He has spent more than two decades studying professional learning and instructional coaching. He has written several books on instructional coaching including Instructional Coaching: A Partnership Approach to Improving Instruction (2007), Unmistakable Impact: A Partnership Approach for Dramatically Improving Instruction (2011), High-Impact Instruction (2013), Focus on Teaching (2014), Better Conversations (2015), and The Impact Cycle (2018). Knight has also authored articles on instructional coaching and professional learning in publications such as Educational Leadership, The Journal of Staff Development, Principal Leadership, The School Administrator, and Kappan. Jim earned his PhD in Education from the University of Kansas and has won several university teaching, innovation, and service awards. Knight also writes the Radical Learners blog.

Venue:
Shenzhen

9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Registration at 8:30 am
on the 20th February 2020