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Training Talk - Working Together

A coaching course enabled Lisa Fern and her team to overcome differences in opinion. By Gabriella Jozwiak

Communication between busy senior leaders is challenging at any large nursery. At Grandpont Nursery School and Childcare in Oxford, this is one area staff have improved following personalised coaching sessions delivered by Linden Learning.

Head teacher Lisa Fern felt the four members of her senior team needed help to problem-solve and work together. ‘We’ve been involved in a lot of change over the past couple of years,’ she explains. ‘There’d been some instability.’

Linden Learning early years director Tamsin Grimmer delivered a day of in-house coaching. They spent a morning tackling issues on which they had been unable to agree. In the afternoon, Ms Grimmer took each employee aside for an hour of one-to-one coaching.

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