4Cs Coaching & Leadership Development

Course Format

Course Duration & Price:

1. 6-week program - £250 / person (POA for groups of 5+)
2. 6-week program + 2 coaching sessions - £400 / person (POA for groups of 5+)

Course Suitable For

1. Individuals, Middle Leaders, Pastoral Leads, Year Heads and their teams, Heads of Department, Faculty Leads, Subject teams, teachers, professional support staff, managers of professional support

About this Course

1. Offered in partnership with Shirzad Chamine’s ground-breaking PQ program, this is a mental fitness program and can be done in conjunction with any of the coaching packages below, or as a separate program. It is accessed through our partner – Positive Intelligence® and delivered by 4CS Coaching.
2. This is a highly structured, research and evidenced-based program that allows individuals to develop their ability to self-manage, especially at times of uncertainty, and to think more creatively and innovatively

Course Outcomes

1. Boosting self-command techniques
2. Limiting beliefs - the universal saboteur - ‘The Judge’ and how to intercept it
3. Limiting beliefs - your personal profile, the impact of these on your performance and happiness, and how to reduce their negative impact
4. Techniques for moving from limiting beliefs to enabling ones (from Saboteur to Sage)
5. Building your creative powers (Boosting your Sage)
6. Taking action – how to be clear and laser-focused
7. Cultivates greater individual and team effectiveness through developing EQ, common understanding self and others
8. Building relationships - shaping quality conversations, through enhanced levels of trust
9. Develops tools for teams to utilize their individual and collective inner resources and strengths more readily in their roles
10. Develops tools for teams to recognise, and reduce the impact of, their limiting beliefs more effectively in their leadership role
11. Enables teams to grow in confidence to have courageous conversations based on high levels of trust
12. Supports teams in implementing change effectively

Course Format

Course Duration & Price:

1. 10 credits/hours - £1,500; 20 credits/hours - £2,700; 
   30 credits/hours - £3,750;  40 credits/ hours - £5,200

Course Suitable For

1. Individuals, Middle Leaders, Pastoral Leads, Year Heads, Teaching Staff, Heads of Department, Faculty Leads, Guidance Counsellors, professional support staff in management roles

About this Course

1. This package is highly flexible. In this package schools access blocks of time as ‘credits’ that can be used flexibly; accessed based on locally determined criteria and need. Each credit represents 1 hour of coaching, which can be offered to senior or middle leaders based on school priorities and local arrangements.

Course Outcomes

1. Establish a program of external professional support focused staff wellbeing
2. Enable staff to have conversations with a coach that allows for confidentiality, and open honest dialogue about what matters to them
3. For Induction coaching – improved onboarding experience, and benefits recruitment marketing
4. Begins to build a coaching culture as staff experience professional level coaching
5. Enhanced professional performance
6. Improved professional relationships at work and within teams
7. May augment existing skills base if the school already has a program of coaching training 
8. Signals an explicit message to middle leaders and new employees that they are valued and being invested in and supported (in addition to internal/ group provision)

Course Format

Course Duration & Price:

1. (private client) 8-session program - £800
2. (1x school as client) 8-session program - £1,200;  2x school clients (8-session program - £1000/ person)

Course Suitable For

1. Middle Leaders, Pastoral leads, Year Heads, Heads of Department, Faculty Leads, Guidance Counsellors, professional support staff in management roles

About this Course

1. This is a structured coaching program arrangement. Individuals or Schools access a program of coaching on a ‘per person’ basis for identified individuals or on an ‘opt-in’ basis. This would include 6 sessions of coaching. The program would be supported by an initial ‘discovery session’ - setting clear objectives, 6 hours of coaching, and a final ‘completion session’. (8 sessions in all per person).

Course Outcomes

1. Establish a program of external professional support focused professional roles, and wellbeing
2. Enable staff to have conversations with a coach that allows for confidentiality, and open honest dialogue about what matters to them
3. Begins to build a coaching culture as staff experience professional level coaching
4. Empowers middle leaders to understand their role in decision-making, leading teams, and its impact on others more effectively
5. Develops tools for middle leaders to utilize their inner resources and strengths more readily in their leadership role
6. Develops tools for middle leaders to recognise, and reduce the impact of, their limiting beliefs more effectively in their leadership role
7. Cultivates confidence in leading a team, holding them to account and developing team capacity
8. Enables middle leaders to grow in confidence to have courageous conversations and being able to represent their perspective effectively
9. Supports middle leaders in implementing change effectively

Course Format

Course Duration & Price:

1. 8-session program - £1,400 (2+ ‘pair’ clients – POA)

Course Suitable For

1. Middle Leaders, Pastoral Leads, Year Heads, Heads of Department, Faculty Leads, Guidance Counsellors, professional support staff in management roles

About this Course

1. This program is a structured coaching program arrangement. Schools access a program of coaching on a ‘per pair’ basis for identified individuals or on an ‘opt-in’ basis as a ‘pair’. This would include up to 6 sessions of coaching.
2. The program would be supported by an initial ‘paired discovery session’ with clear shared goals identified, 6 hours of coaching, and a final ‘completion session’. (8 sessions in all per pair).

Course Outcomes

1. Cultivates greater team effectiveness through developing effective relationships, shaping quality conversations, and alignment in ways of working
2. Builds synergies in middle leaders to understand their role in decision-making, leading teams, and its impact on others more effectively
3. Develops tools for middle leaders to utilize their individual and collective inner resources and strengths more readily in their leadership role
4. Develops tools for middle leaders to recognise, and reduce the impact of, their limiting beliefs more effectively in their leadership role
5. Enables middle leaders to grow in confidence to have courageous conversations and being able to represent their perspective effectively and hold others to account
6. Supports middle leaders in implementing change effectively
7. Establish a program of external professional support focused professional roles
8. Begins to build a coaching culture as staff experience professional level coaching

Course Format

Course Duration & Price:

1. 8-session team program - £400 / person up to 5-persons  (larger teams – POA)
   For teams also engaging in the Positive Intelligence program (POA)

Course Suitable For

1. Middle Leaders, Pastoral Leads, Year Heads and their teams, Heads of Department, Faculty Leads, professional support staff in management roles with teams

About this Course

1. This program is structured coaching and mentoring program arrangement. Schools access a program of coaching for identified teams who agree to be coached and mentored as a ‘group/single entity’. This would include up to 6 sessions of coaching/mentoring.
2. The program would be supported by
   • an initial ‘team inventory/discovery session’ to establish clear collective goals/ objectives and current position
   • 6 hours of coaching – introducing a toolkit of techniques to enhance team cohesion and performance; and/or
   • structured themed mentoring (such as domains of high performance, leading change, effective conversations, my ‘preferences inventory’)
   • and a final ‘completion session’.

Course Outcomes

1. Cultivates greater team effectiveness through developing effective relationships - shaping quality conversations, values and vision alignment, and agreed ways of working
2. Supports reflective practice and enhances focus on operational and strategic development
3. Builds awareness in middle leaders to understand their role in decision-making, leading teams, and its impact on others more effectively
4. Develops tools for teams to utilize their individual and collective inner resources and strengths more readily in their leadership role
5. Develops tools for teams to recognise, and reduce the impact of, their limiting beliefs more effectively in their leadership role
6. Enables teams to grow in confidence to have courageous conversations based on high levels of trust
7. Supports teams in implementing change effectively

Course Format

Course Duration & Price:

1. 8-session team program - £500 / person up to 5-persons (larger teams – POA)

Course Suitable For

1. Aspiring to leadership, Middle Leaders, Pastoral Leads, Year Heads and their teams, Heads of Department, Faculty Leads, professional support staff in management roles with teams

About this Course

1. This program is a structured learning program, with facilitated workshop learning and self-paced learning, with coaching and mentoring support. Schools access a program having identified one of two groups a) those that are aspiring to leadership roles, or b) already experienced leaders wishing to enhance their effectiveness and/or move towards career development.
2. The program would be supported by
   • an initial ‘leadership competency inventory/discovery session’ to establish clear collective leadership development goals/ objectives and current position
   • Modular learning introducing a toolkit of tools, techniques, video resources, think pieces, research and evidence-based reviews on leadership, reflection activities and discussion forums to enhance leadership capability, and effectiveness Modular learning may include:
   o Leader knowing self
   o Leading in context
   o Leading teaching and learning
   o Leading highly effective teams
   o Leading change
   o Leading for development

Course Outcomes

1. Cultivates greater leadership capacity and  effectiveness through developing leadership capabilities
2. Supports reflective practice and enhances focus on operational and strategic development
3. Builds awareness in middle leaders to understand their role in decision-making, leading teams, and its impact on others more effectively
4. Develops tools for teams to utilize their individual and collective inner resources and strengths more readily in their leadership role
5. Develops tools for leaders to recognise, and reduce the impact of, their limiting beliefs more effectively in their leadership role
6. Builds leadership capacity across the school and takes forward school development priorities
7. Supports schools in implementing change effectively