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O F T H E DAY
-- DR. BOB GRAGG
Professional Executive Coach – for
Career Tech leaders?
 Superintendents
 New /1st. Year Superintendents
 Experienced /Seasoned-Superintendents
 Aspiring Leaders
 Succession Planning
 Grow Your Own Leadership Development Plans
 Directors / Team Leaders
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?
Have you ever felt like this guy?
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
What “Coaching” is NOT
 Consulting: consultants have an agenda, answers,
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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.
Why a Leader would hire a “Coach”
 For the same reasons you would hire a
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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
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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).
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
“Professional Executive Coaching” Cannot
 A “Professional Executive Coach” Cannot help
anyone who NEEDS it ---
 Only someone who “WANTS” it!
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: [email protected]
• PHONE: (405) 401-4902