In partnership | Coachingandmentoring

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Collaborate, Communicate, Educate

Viv Buckland and Debs Park have partnered up to bring to primary school leaders our Collaborate, Communicate, Educate package of services to support you to understand your people. Debs is a former primary school headteacher who continues to provide a wellbeing support service for headteachers in o 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 three different packages available for you to consider. Each package includes 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 then 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.

What makes us different?

We have chosen this partnership to make the most of similarity and difference. 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 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.