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Leadership that Works has a long, well established commitment to social justice. Coaching for Community Transformation (CCT) was born from that desire to make coaching accessible to all communities. CCT can be a powerful resource in the social justice field and community transformation can help create more equitable and just communities.
In the early days, coaching clients were often corporate executives and professionals with coaches from upper-middle-class backgrounds. This early coaching model focused on professional development and success. As a consequence, coaching was primarily a profession of and for those who already had power and privilege.
Leadership that Works is committed to changing that dynamic. We understand the early training professional coaching model is not broad enough to achieve a vision for widespread reach and social change.
Leadership that Works provides Coaching for Community Transformation training to a variety of community members and groups: nonprofit leaders, nonprofit and government service providers, executives, consultants, educators, community organizers, community residents, board members, and volunteers.
CCT trainees have come from organizations working on community and economic development, affordable housing, financial asset building, workforce development, early childhood and youth development, as well as human service agencies, and social justice organizations, school districts and community initiatives.
As more and more communities and organizations add coaching to their tool box, more clients who seek services from multiple agencies are being supported from a common, client-centered, empowering, coaching-based service delivery model. This broadens the support for personal and community transformation.
In addition, when managers and directors take the coaching skills training with their staff, they jointly discover how to create a coaching culture within their organization. This coaching culture supports them in working collaboratively and in shifting their focus from problems to possibilities, creative action, accountability and achievement. This is sustainable, empowering change.
Five critical components are necessary to bring our Coaching for Community Transformation vision into reality:
The early experience with direct service providers was a microcosm of what we are now discovering about taking coaching deeper into communities. The horizon for community coaching has endless possibilities as each community begins to imagine and explore how coaching skills can support the change they wish to create.
Leadership that Works is at the forefront of this innovative and cutting-edge work. We are bringing culturally-aware coaching into groups, neighborhoods and organizations that are committed to enhancing the quality of life for all people in their community.
Answering the following questions may help you think about what is possible for your organization and/or community:
What is possible if parents are trained in coaching skills?
What impact is possible if coaching skills were taught in languages other than English to include those leaders and community members who are often left out?
Let's discuss how coaching skills training may support your vision for enhanced connection, engagement, communication and collaboration in your organization, school and community.
Call or email Leslie Brown at 734-678-3017 for more information.
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