Coaching and Leading with Relational Energy
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:
Share their professional growth plans and seek feedback from staff;
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
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.
