Management Coaching for School Leaders

At Workforce Echoes we specialize in coaching teachers recently promoted to a management position and seasoned school leaders who find they are struggling with frustrating management issues. Leading a school requires a completely different skill set than the positions typically held before becoming a principal or head of school.

Great teachers serve the students. A great school leader serves the kids, the teachers, the staff, the parents, and the community. New administrators often find themselves without the support resources needed to fully excel in their new positions. Faculty members have a peer group to counsel with when challenges arise. School leaders often do not. They are expected to become superstar managers by figuring things out on their own.

This sink or swim mentality often fails to produce administrators who reach their full potential but instead results in leaders who are frustrated and disengaged. Failure to provide the necessary management tools and coaching proves to be very expensive and time consuming. An organizational culture of frustration inhibits parental involvement, learning and ultimately school growth. Schools today cannot afford to deal with the repercussions of having an administration failing to function together as a cohesive team.

Here are just 12 of the benefits of our coaching services for you and your school:

1. Make better hiring decisions
2. Improve your ability to inspire and gain buy-in from staff, faculty, and parents
3. Help you implement methods and practices to build a team of motivated and passionate faculty and staff
4. Think strategically ensuring that daily actions are aligned with important goals
5. Reduce the time and energy wasted on ineffective communication
6. Improve on those management skills that lead to trust and support from your team
7. Deal with employee problems quickly and effectively
8. Put some energy and enthusiasm back into your own job
9. Develop and put plans into action to help you accomplish those goals you keep thinking about
10. Effectively deal with those employees who put in time but no energy or passion
11. Create an environment that encourages new and creative ideas from your team
12. Decrease the need for you to provide constant and close supervision over certain employees

Coaching has a major advantage over a training program. Coaching can be customized to address individual needs, with week-to-week support and opportunities to integrate learning into real life work experiences. Workforce Echoes consultants are experienced managers. Managing is what we do. We offer short or long term coaching services to leave school leaders with the management skills and abilities needed to achieve their personal best as a school leader and to bring out the best in their faculty and staff.

Our Virtual Consulting Service is offered on a limited basis to school leaders outside of the Annapolis, Baltimore, and Washington D.C. areas.