Sonia Gill is the author of #1 ranked book ‘Successful Difficult Conversations in School’.
She and her team supported 100s of school leaders have more successful difficult conversations with startling results: unresolved issues which have been bubbling along for weeks, months or terms have been resolved in one or two conversations and without court or capability.
She shares easy to apply techniques and offers insight into why an issues is not moving forward.
The training is 100% recommended by delegates.
What is our ‘Successful difficult conversations training day’ like?
This 2-minute video will give you a flavour:
The ability to have difficult conversations and achieve results is an essential leadership and management skill. As a senior leader, there’s no doubt you’re faced with these tricky conversations on a regular basis.
Are you one of the few people who has been properly trained to have successful difficult conversations consistently?
Or are you one of the many who tries to resolve these issues but doesn’t always succeed?
Most schools have issues that negatively impact you, your team and your children; issues such as:
- A teacher who isn’t marking to school policy.
- A moody secretary.
- A teaching assistant who is always late.
- Caretakers who do what they want, when they want.
If you realise the negative impact these unresolved issues have on your pupils and you want to stop it, then you’re not alone.
We’ve trained hundreds of school leaders who desperately want to fix these, and other, issues and give their pupils the best education they can
- Do you shudder at the prospect of having a difficult conversation?
- Are you having the same conversations and hoping for different results?
- Do you wonder why things don’t improve despite your best efforts?
If the answer to any of the statements above is yes, then it’s time to change.
We’re going to be giving you all the best bits of our 5 day “Successful Difficult Conversations” training course, in fact we are not just giving you the best bits, but the best of the best bits!
What are these best bits? They’re parts which the 100s of school leaders I’ve trained love most, they include:
- How to make sure your message is heard
(you know what it’s like when someone walks away having ‘heard’ something else!) - Avoiding the biggest mistake that we see at least 50% of school leaders make
(and we’re being kind when we say 50% :/ ) - How to keep your conversation on track
(and not let those ‘diversion demons’ get the better of you) - How to get the party started
(with confidence and kindness)
And for the first time we are going to share some of the best tools and techniques we’ve used time and time again to move an issue which isn’t improving forward (and which are usually covered at the end of our 5 day course). We’re going to cover a lot on the day so you can go away with a stack of strategies and techniques to make those difficult conversations more successful.
Testimonial
“Having had a number of difficult conversations I have often felt emotionally drained. I now feel I have the tools and techniques necessary to have more positive difficult conversations” Headteacher, Bristol
“After attending this training the fear and anxiety of having a difficult conversation is a distant memory” Assistant Headteacher, Colchester
“A very engaging and a must do course for all school leaders. Strongly recommend it!” Headteacher, Sydenham