Coaching and Leading with Relational Energy

Lead by Steve Barkley

 

Stephen Barkley identifies 3 strategies that Administrators can be doing now to build relational energy with their staff. Relational energy is important because the more you have the more bought in and accountable staff will be for realising their development goals.

In this presentation Stephen suggests Administrators and Leaders across the school should:

  1. Share their professional growth plans and seek feedback from staff;

  2. When giving feedback, focus on the teacher’s experience, specifically how did they envision a lesson would go and what did they observe about their own lesson; and

  3. Build trust by clearly identifying your role when giving feedback, is it as an Evaluator, Supervisor, Mentor or Peer Coach. Administrators where all 4 hats, but to build relational energy and to ensure coaching feedback is effective we need teachers to feel comfortable with their own vulnerability associated with feedback.

Our next Micro-Lesson is with Stuart McAlpine and in 15-minutes he will share 3 strategies that you can use now to improve lesson and unit planning in teams.

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Steve is an education consultant for school districts, teacher organizations, state departments of education, and colleges and universities.

Why do effective leaders invest relational energy?

 

Unlike expending physical, mental, and emotional energy which generally require some recovery time, relational energy tends to elevate and renew itself. We seldom become exhausted, for example, by being around loving, supportive people who help uplift us. In fact, we often seek relational energy to become renewed. Relational energy renews us, uplifts us and refreshes us. It is the energy exchanged between two individuals.

Source: Kim Cameron, https://www.smartbrief.com/original/2021/08/why-energy-so-important-leaders.

 

A personal opportunity to developing Your Instructiobal Coaching Skills…

 
 
 

Instructional coaching supports educators in their continuous growth to maximize student success. The complexity of teaching is continually expanding and all educators deserve a coach. Administrators, supervisors, and middle level leaders have instructional coaching as one of their responsibilities, while instructional coaches can have coaching as their key responsibility . Whatever your role, Personalized Coaching will assist you in developing your coaching knowledge and skills to maximize the presence of a coaching culture within your school.

“Steve Barkley is extremely knowledgeable and imparts that knowledge in a friendly, caring manner. I felt that I gained so much!”

— Taryn Smith, Literacy Coach, I-Shou International School