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Leadership Coaching Skills – Educational Leadership
Posted on March 8th, 2010
There are many types of leadership, and each of them works best in specific situations. While we are familiar with transformation, transactional, and strategic leadership, many of us have not quite heard about educational leadership. In this type of leadership, a leader must be open to learning and helps his or her team to learn. And in this case, one would need to have effective leadership coaching skills if you seek to help develop the skills of both leaders and subordinates.
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Having effective leadership coaching skills is quite necessary, especially in organizations that are serious about having effective leaders and motivated employees. Leaders also need their share of coaching and without effective coaching skills; one can easily fail at helping leaders develop their different skills.
What makes leadership coaching so challenging is that many people get intimated by leaders. And many people think that leaders already know what they are doing and there is nothing else to learn. When this happens, it can indeed be difficult to help leaders improve their skills, and it is almost impossible for leadership coaching to take place.
And this brings us to thinking that effective coaching skills stem from having an open mind towards continuous development and training, which is quite true and important. Without a firm conviction about continuous development and training, leadership coaching would not exist. And if you cannot find a good leadership coach within the office, there is still an option left – seeking help from career development firms that have experts in leadership coaching.
Improving leadership coaching skills apart from leadership alone is quite important in every organization. It is not always that you will need to bring in help to improve the skills of your leaders. In many cases, the very help you need is lurking within the organization and simply needs to be motivated to come out of their shells.
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He said he worked in rural Alaskan schools for a total of nine years, overseeing largely American Indian student populations. As Taos is in the midst of $40 million of district-wide construction, Weston said in a phone interview he has overseen multimillion dollar construction projects and renovations in the past.
He said he made sure bidding was done properly but left the construction itself to trusted project representatives.
“My job as superintendent really was to make sure we had a good clerk of the works,” he said.
While Taos faces cuts due to statewide budget shortfalls, Weston also said he hasn’t had to make large budget cuts in the past.
“The economy generally wasn’t as bad as it is now,” he said.
Weston said he enjoyed a tour of the district Monday, adding that staff and students he met seemed “upbeat.”
“It seemed like the students were well-behaved. It seemed like they were cheerful,” he said.
Asked by student board member David Torres how much time he would spend visiting individual school sites were he hired, Weston said it is a crucial part of the job, though it is “easy to get trapped in your office as superintendent.”
“It’s real rewarding to get to know the students,” he said.
Board members Lorraine Coca-Ruiz and Arsenio Córdova said the board does not have an anticipated start date for the new superintendent, though the notice of vacancy the district released in January listed a starting date of Feb. 8. Córdova said negotiations must take place with the board’s selection before a date is set.
mvanburen@taosnews.com
