The Circles of Empowerment for Schools

Research indicates that there are six core areas of competencies that contribute to the proficiency of educators as a team to ensure that a high level of learning is achieved within their own school environment. These core areas include:

Academic qualifications
Teaching experience
Classroom skills
Self-awareness proficiency
Effective communication skills
Leadership competencies

Whilst Principals and Deputy Principals might have these skills in abundance and play a vital role in the leadership of their schools, their ultimate success can be limited by their ability to harness and focus the strengths of their leadership team to extend their own vision.

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Turning the wheel of Education into Tomorrow

Who We are

Sandy Geyer

Business Leader, Author, Entrepreneurial Trainer and International Business Speaker.
Sandy has extensive expertise in behavioural science and corporate training which she combines with her unique understanding of the educational sphere as the co-founder of Allcopy Publishers.

Hillary Haynes

As one of Australia’s top corporate trainers in Emotional Intelligence, Hilary’s knowledge in this area is outstanding and her resources form a very valuable part of the COE material.

Margi Hull

Margi is an experienced facilitator with a wide training background. With her extensive experience in the educational field she assists schools through the COE training programme as a much valued and compassionate professional.

Lynn-Mari Blokker

Lynn is a highly experienced facilitator who has a background in Industrial Psychology and who’s core focus is Emotional Intelligence. She is passionate about developing and optimizing individual and team skills, contributing to making a positive difference.

What we Teach

Emotional Intelligence training empowers Educators and Learners to function effectively in the following areas:

Self awareness and theawareness of others throughthe recognition of behavioural styles within an educational environment
Leadership empowerment
Conflict resolution
Career choices (Learners)
Personal strengths (Educators)

How does the Training work?

Through the completion of an online COE assessment and a strengths assessment, Educators are coached through a 4 hour workshop in groups of between 10 and 20 by a COE specialist trainer/facilitator.

Through the completion of an online COE assessment, Learners are coached through a 2 hour workshop in groups of between 50 and 80 by a COE specialist trainer/facilitator.

The Educator training focus is towards:

Effective communication
Leadership empowerment
Team dynamics and alignment
Conflict resolution
Individual and team strengths
School and team goals

The Learner focus is towards:

Self awareness and self management
Awareness of others and management of others
Leadership empowerment
Conflict resolution
Career choices

What the teacher’s say about their experience of the COE Workshop for Student leaders and Staff:

“The workshop proved to be enlightening, interesting, and fruitful for the team. This process will enable both personal growth, and more effective management of Rhodes High School. We look forward to the rolling out of this programme to other members of the Rhodes High School community. The Circles of Empowerment Workshop is highly recommended by Rhodes High School.”

“Sandy Geyer has facilitated the Circles of Empowerment Workshop for student leaders for 3 years now with our Year 13 Prefect group from 2017 to 2020. The areas addressed in the workshop contribute meaningfully to the leadership journeys of our student leaders. It is due to the longevity of the leadership skills taught at the workshop and the manner in which these skills support the students through their leadership role as a group and individuals that we have continued to ask Sandy back and would recommend that other schools consider the value of her work in this area”.

What the student’s say about the COE Workshop for Student leaders:

“I would definitely recommend this to my friends – I think every school leadership group should do this course.”

“This course teaches you a lot about yourself, it allows you to grow as a person.”

“This workshop really helped me understand myself and where I am emotionally and how I fit into the prefects group – I really enjoyed the honking strategy as a group too.”

"I really enjoyed the conflict part of the training because it made me reconsider my thoughts during conflict. I also really enjoyed the interactive activities – this workshop was a lot of fun yet we learned so much."

“Very well run, highly organized and engaging thank you for coming and helping us.”

“Very beneficial to the start of the year – set’s a nice tone for the group.”

What do we do if we are interested?

Contact us as soon as possible. You are under no obligation to proceed from inquiry but if you are interested schedule planning will be helpful to organise workshops at the best time for your school’s Educators and Learners.

More details:

On the range of COE Workshop formats available from EnQ Practice is Available Here
On the content and format of the COE Workshop for Student Leaders/Prefects is Available Here
For contact details Here

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