Education: the tough stuff | Coachingandmentoring

Education: the tough stuff!

Viv Buckland and Debs Park have partnered up to bring to primary school leaders our Education: the tough stuff! package of services to support you with some of the many challenges modern headteachers face. Debs is a former primary school headteacher who continues to provide a wellbeing support service for headteachers in a Local Authority. Listening to the issues that are regularly emerging for head teachers we have put together a programme of support to meet those needs.

Viv spent many years as a senior leader in a Local Authority managing highly effective teams who worked directly with schools and parents, including managing parental complaints. This partnership brings extensive experience together with coaching skills to provide you with the practical support you need.

We have a range of services available to meet a variety of needs in the most cost effective way. Whether you are seeking some bespoke support to change the culture in your staff team, comprehensive support with parental complaints, or one of our packages that provide a range of resources including Executive Coaching for the headteacher. We know that you worked hard to get to where you are, and our coaching offer will give you the support you need to continue to grow and develop your personal leadership style. A sounding board when you need it.

The packages include a menu of online training sessions that you can access flexibly at a time to suit you, including such topics as managing parental complaints, and effective performance management. And a further menu of half day facilitated training sessions delivered at your school covering topics such as culture change, dealing with overwhelm and restorative sessions with the whole staff team.

We know your budgets are stretched right now and so you might simply be interested in following some of our Education: the tough stuff! blogs covering a range of topics that might be relevant to you. No charge, no catch. You can join our mailing list without fear of constant pestering to buy from us. We know that if you find yourself facing an issue you want help with you will let us know. Until then feel free to follow us for free.

What makes us different?

We have chosen this partnership to make the most of our similarities and differences. Both trained and experienced coaches we regularly work with clients to help them navigate the issues they are facing, as well as working towards their goals. But more than that we both have extensive experience of the world of schools and education. As a former headteacher Debs has been through many of the issues you are facing. As a former senior leader in Children's Services Viv has been developing high performance teams for many years. Those teams all worked directly with schools or parents, often in very challenging circumstances.

We have brought this expertise in the education sector, along with our ability to hold the conversations most people fear to have with us to design the training offer we have available to you to choose from. All of the sessions are based on needs that schools like yours have described, and we listen to our clients to enable us to continually develop more sessions that meet the needs you describe.

Having invested in our own development further we are both qualified hypnotherapists and our school clients are able to access discounts for both staff and parents who may wish to access this service. These style of therapeutic conversations with children can be a very powerful way to support the children to make really positive changes to behaviours that are negatively affecting their lives.