Dr Emma Kell

For staff teams or colleagues working in similar roles (e.g. leaders, new professionals). You will leave with practical, no-cost strategies for looking after yourselves and one another.

• Self-efficacy and ‘humans first’: what do we mean by wellbeing and effectiveness
• Values and moral purpose: holding your moral compass tightly
• Perspective: what really matters? Managing your attention and emotional energy
• Workload and current challenges: what does the landscape look like for you and your team? Strategies for managing the never-ending to-do list
• Balance and self-care: what do you need in order to flourish? Stress signs and signals
• Relationships: giving what you can and taking what you need
• Agency: you have more control than you might imagine. The power of humour.

For leaders at all levels. You will leave with tools and strategies for impactful conversations with positive, lasting outcomes.

• Professional courage: what does it mean to you?
• Introducing VIEW – a new framework for courageous conversations
• Current challenges: controlling the controllables
• Knowing and articulating what you stand for: your values and moral purpose
• Impact: being clear about how you want change to look
• Emotions and empathy: let’s talk about feelings – how they are or might be and how you want them to be
• The practicalities and a chance to practise your conversation

For all those interested in building coaching cultures of trust, empowerment and positive impact.
You will leave with a wide range of tools and approaches for use at home and at work to help you and others gain clarity and perspective.

• Clarifying and communicating identity and values
• Understanding emotions and managing your emotional energy
• Boundaries, control and intentionality
• Change and future-planning
• Balance and self-care
• Perspective, self-efficacy and defining ‘success’
• Attaining clarity
• Enriching your relationships and networks
• Efficiency and effectiveness

For professionals who find themselves juggling their own needs with the needs of others. You will leave feeling intentional and confident about your boundaries, what success looks like to you and that you are, indeed, ‘good enough’.

• Bringing your whole self to work – and remembering to bring your whole self home again
• Performative cultures and definitions of ’success’ – what legacy do you want to leave?
• Compassion stress and burnout – protecting ourselves and one another
• Barriers to balance: personal, institutional and societal
• Enablers at personal, institutional and societal levels
• Where are you now – where do you want to be? Planning practical ways forward
• What works? Tips from research and experience for individuals and organisations

For senior and middle—leadership teams. You will receive a DISC profile after responding to a few questions. Emma is a qualified DISC profiler with The Coaching Academy. For more information, see here: https://www.the-coaching-academy.com/disc/

You’d leave with a clearer understanding of your own communication preferences and those of your colleagues and increased confidence in expressing yourself with clarity and confidence, as well as organising your time and space and dealing with stress.

• Expressing what you need in order to work and function most effectively – and what doesn’t help!
• Expressing your unique value to the team
• Understanding your growth areas
• Exploring how your communication preferences might be affected when you’re under stress
• Understanding how you can most effectively get the best out of others

For current and aspiring middle leaders – the heart and lungs of a school

You’d leave with an enhanced understanding of yourself as a leader, increased confidence and clarity over your values and aims. You will understand more about your team and how to support and challenge them, keeping the most important people – the children – at the centre of all of your actions and goals. All packages are adapted to meet the unique needs of the organisation but might include:

• Leadership identity – the difference between leadership and management. The unique joys and challenges of middle leadership
• Leading and managing change – negotiating the myriad changes in our schools, getting people on board and ensuring positive and lasting impact
• Managing success and setbacks – navigating the highs and lows of the role and coming out stronger. Building your own resilience and that of your team
• Balancing support and accountability – it’s your role to shape the culture and climate of your team but you can’t make everyone happy all of the time!
• Integrating learning and planning ahead – effective and pragmatic future planning

• The challenges and the negativity bias – why does it it sometimes – or often – feel so difficult?
• The lasting and vital importance of the job we do – values, purpose and human intelligence in schools
• Tilting to the positive – celebrating your wins and the difference you make
• Sustaining positivity – fostering grit and optimism for you and your teams
• The power of humour – what does the research tell us?