Empowering Others: How School Leaders Can Coach Instead of Rescue

Picture this: a rising leader on your team—maybe a department chair or new vice principal—walks into your office with a problem. You talk it through. It’s a good conversation. But when they walk out the door, instead of them leaving with clear action steps towards a solution, you’re the one holding the problem. Yet another item gets added to your to do list. Again.

How did this happen?

In this honest, empowering session, a former principal/superintendent turned leadership coach shares how high-achieving, service-minded school leaders unintentionally take on too much—and how to stop. The presenter will draw from best practices in leadership coaching to unpack why so many managers end up hero-ing—rescuing others by solving their problems instead of developing them with the goal to shift from hero-ing to coaching.

Participants will gain:
- New attitudes and skills to experiment with.
- A framework for understanding the shape of a coaching conversation.
- Tried-and-true coaching questions that empower the person who brought the problem to feel confident and capable in remaining responsible for their own tasks and projects.
- The opportunity for live coaching on real issues.
- The chance to practice with peers.

If you’re tired of adopting everyone else’s monkeys while your own work keeps falling to the bottom of the list, join us. This session offers a path to leading with more impact and way more sanity.