Six Steps towards a Coaching Culture

This graphic suggests six steps on the journey towards a coaching culture. Coaching as a philosophy is all about goal setting, knowing the direction to go into achieve the vision, rationale and ambition for all staff, pupils and the wider community. Each school or college is different. So laying down the foundations for what success will look like in your organisation at the beginning, will help to create the steps that will ultimately lead to strategic success.

It is essential that the right people drive the process and create a guiding coalition of those who will pioneer the embedding of a coaching culture and they must be committed. Fully trained and be skillful communicators take time to drive forward the plan, create opportunities to reflect, review and make changes along the way.

Use coaching as a tool for creating structured meetings that drive the programme towards its defined outcomes and constantly evaluate and celebrate success along the way.

In a nutshell, this topic emphasises the process towards achieving a coaching culture. The following set of bullet points can lead to an outstanding, innovative and creative solutions focused plan that delivers the vision and creates highly successful leaders, managers, teams and teachers and those who support them. It is worth saying that coaching is a pedagogy. And once those with pupil facing roles realise its power, its influence is there potentially in the classroom, with the pupils they teach.