1. BEST PRACTICES AND INNOVATIONS CONFERENCE EXECUTIVE COACHING THROUGH THE WHIRLWINDS OF THE DAY -- DR. BOB GRAGG BARLOW EDUCATION MANAGEMENT SERVICES, LLC

2. Professional Executive Coach – for Career Tech leaders? Superintendents  New /1 st. Year Superintendents  Experienced /Seasoned-Superintendents Aspiring Leaders Succession Planning Grow Your Own Leadership Development Plans Directors / Team Leaders

3. Facing Tough Issues Where do Leaders, Chief Executive’s & Superintendent’s go for confidential and transparent help? Are you being asked to do MORE with LESS?

4. Have you ever felt like this guy?

5. WHAT is “PROFESSIONAL COACHING” Professional Executive Coaching is based on the concept of a “Stage Coach” Once you figure out where you are, and where you want to go – the “Coach” helps you get from one destination to the next as you move on the continuous professional career journey

6. What “Coaching” is NOT Consulting: consultants have an agenda, answers, expertise. Coaches help you with your agenda. Mentoring: mentors provide a model. Coaches help you be the expert and search for your answers. Therapy: therapists fix problems. Coaches see no problems – only opportunities. Sports Coaching: similar – in the spirit of bringing out the best you have – just not so much competition / not a win-lose / only a win-win. Friendship: friends give advice. Coaches work objectively, non-judgmentally toward what you think is best.

7. Why a Leader would hire a “Coach” For the same reasons you would hire a  professional accountant to help you make financial decisions; and  an attorney to advise you on legal and policy issues. A Professional Executive Coach is your CONFIDANT  Stage Coach driver – moving from one place to the next;  Bringing out your best competencies and character traits;  Helping you connect your goals and strategies;  Coaching validates, acknowledges, plants seeds, reframes issues, celebrates, makes accountable, reflects, stretches, intrudes, clarifies, brings empowering questions to the equation. It deals with limiting beliefs, gremlins, false assumptions and the occasional bit of paranoia (The Whirlwinds of the Day Job).

8. What a “Professional Coach” Does Validates the potential LEADERSHIP GREATNESS in your district …. Focuses your core initiatives toward  Anabolic Energy: constructive, building, healing energy Defers your core initiatives away from  Catabolic Energy: negative, destructive energy

9. “Professional Executive Coaching” Cannot A “Professional Executive Coach” Cannot help anyone who NEEDS it --- Only someone who “WANTS” it!

10. Summary / Q &A PROFESSIONAL EXECUTIVE COACHING =PREDICTABLE RESULTS during these UNPREDICTABLE TIMES (Identifying and Focusing on Priorities, while dealing with the Whirlwinds of the Day Job…. 80-20 Rules) DR. BOB GRAGG EMAIL: BOBGRAGG1@HUGHES.NETBOBGRAGG1@HUGHES.NET PHONE: (405) 401-4902