Three proven benefits to a coaching approach

Retain and improve your staff

• BASIC coaching will improve relationships across the school, helping to retain staff for longer periods
• Introducing coaching across your school will help early career teachers to become middle leaders more quickly and successfully

Create a shared language around coaching

• Using the BASIC Method of coaching and feedback will help to develop language around conflict and challenge that won't scare staff and parents and allow you to resolve difficulties more quickly
• Using BASIC coaching will create a shorthand for both culture and climate and help schools to improve as an organisation through more effective leader communication
• A coaching mindset will help schools to improve at pace and manage the challenge of change

Equip all staff to manage the challenges of teaching

• As schools engage with more of young people's lives, BASIC coaching will help staff to communicate more effectively in these more challenging areas
• BASIC Coaching helps staff to develop a wider range of dynamic skills to meet the higher expectations of the profession
• BASIC Coaching is and affordable way to help all staff to support students and parents to become better and to be more effective at improving the school

Andy Buck has taken what can sometimes feel like a very complex and overwhelming topic and created a concise and powerful method for coaching.

Mandy Coalter, Founder, Talent Architects

So what exactly is the BASIC Coaching Method?

Here are the four key elements that unleash the power of every conversation...

The BASIC Steps

Our unique coaching approach follows these steps and is all about asking the right questions

Background  What’s on your mind? What is the real challenge here? What’s working well?

Aim  What do you want? What’s the timescale? What will be the benefit?

Strategy  What are your options? And what else? Which will work best?

Implementation  What are your first steps? When will you taken them? What tactics may be needed?

Commitment  Will you do this? What could stop you? What can you do about this?

The BASIC Qualities

The four most powerful 'ways of being' that make you great to talk with

Build Trust  Underpins all effective conversations

Remain Curious  Avoiding judgement means colleagues are more open to reflection, learning and change

Show Empathy  Builds relationship and connection which is at the heart of engagement and a positive climate

Stay Positive  Keeps a focus on what's posible and builds optimism and motivation to keep improving

The BASIC Habits

Four simple yet powerful conversational habits

Ask First  Stops you jumping in with solutions before giving colleagues the opportunity to devise their own way forward first

Frame Well  Enables you to ask questions in a way that gets colleagues thinking hard and positively

Listen Hard  Show you are listening, create empathy and hear what's not being said

Play Back  Builds rapport, enables you to check for understanding and prompts more thinking

BASIC Feedback

A great way to give feedback that leads to focused areas for improvement and a clear way forward

Make Connection  With the person so they are open to reflection and learning and with the right goals to make them more effective

Feed Forward  To create precise, achievable and positive ways forward for colleagues