WHAT IS SUCCEED WITH TRUE-SPEAK?
McGrath SUCCEED with TRUE-SPEAK is a leadership program that provides Administrators, HR Directors, Principals, and anyone involved in the supervision of staff with a framework for excellent communication skills and productive reasoning based on a philosophy of trust, respect, understanding, and engagement to lead others to excellence. Developed from over 30 years of experience handling teacher dismissal cases.
Training Options
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SUCCEED with TRUE-SPEAK
FOUNDATIONS COURSE
WHAT
Participants learn effective and legally-sound methods of communication, supervision and evaluation required for them to succeed in their roles and lead others to excellence.
Leaders receive the practical tools and skills they need to confidently lead others - from their heart, while thinking with their head.
This Course will prepare supervisors and administrators to:
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Utilize a 4-point logic system for thinking and communicating that correlates human relationship standards—trust, respect, understanding, and growth—with the rights and protections the law affords.
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Provide tailored supervision and evaluation, giving honest feedback and focused direction.
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Distinguish management’s right to supervise and remediate from the employees’ rights regarding evaluation procedures.
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Raise staff morale and effect systemic change.
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Communicate verbally and in writing, being factually based and legally sound, leaving nothing to be disputed.
WHO
The course is designed for
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administrators
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directors
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supervisors
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principals
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assistant principals.
WHY
The SUCCEED Foundations Course
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improves employee retention
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Improves employee engagement
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Reduces litigation risks to the district
WHERE
10-hour training program Online, with 1 or multiple seats
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Two-day training program In Person, with 1 or multiple seats.
RESULTS
The result is an organization-wide cultural shift in leadership and strategic thinking, employee job satisfaction, and increased student achievement.
The course:
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Facilitates collaborative, collegial interactions with employees
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Supports professional growth
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Fosters a culture of accountability
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Builds employee competence
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Enhances leadership skills
DOCUMENT, DISCIPLINE, DISMISS
WHAT
A consistent, system-wide written and spoken language process with accompanying tools provides site administrators and classified managers with the safest way to minimize risk when disciplining and/or terminating employees. Performance, supervision, discipline, and termination issues are addressed with a legally fit and educationally sound method that instills employee responsibility for quality performance and produces the appropriate paper trail. Learn how to use our effective, adaptive tools to help reduce your stress and save time.
WHO
The certification is designed for
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administrators
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directors
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supervisors
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managers
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principals
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assistant principals.
WHY
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Effectively deal with performance issues
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Ensure compliance and due process
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Support discipline and termination decisions
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Avoid wrongful terminations
WHERE
6 hrs Online, with 1 or multiple seats
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One-day training program In Person, with 1 or multiple seats.
RESULTS
Learn how to address employee performance issues with legally fit and educationally sound documentation.
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The skills needed to effectively deal with difficult performance-related issues
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To use tools for consistent compliance with due process and just cause standards
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Management’s rights and responsibilities to supervise while creating an atmosphere of collegiality, accountability, and cooperation
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Documentation procedures and a step-by-step process that supports a disciplinary/termination decision that will hold up under legal scrutiny
SUCCEED with TRUE-SPEAK
INSTRUCTOR CERTIFICATION
WHAT
We train your group of candidates to deliver the SUCCEED Foundations Course to supervisors and administrators within your organization allowing for organization-wide cultural shift in leadership and strategic thinking, employee job satisfaction, and increased student achievement.
WHO
The certification is designed for
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administrators
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directors
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supervisors
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principals
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assistant principals.
WHY
Learn to train others and
create a culture of accountability with
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System-wide adoption
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flexible training dates
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faster adoption
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unlimited refreshers
WHERE
18 hrs Online, with 1 or multiple seats
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Three-day training program In Person, with 1 or multiple seats.
RESULTS
Participants who successfully complete the program become “Certified McGrath SUCCEED Instructors” and are authorized by McGrath Training Solutions to conduct in-house training and provide coaching for district administrators within their own organizations under a four-year McGrath License and Confidentiality Agreement. We train your group of candidates to deliver the SUCCEED Foundations Course to supervisors and administrators within your organization and to facilitate the 9-month follow-up Mastery Curriculum.
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A Certified McGrath SUCCEED Instructor is Authorized under License to:
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Conduct in-house training for administrators, supervisors, teachers and staff that can be tailored to the time and class size needs of the district.
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Act as a SUCCEED facilitator with learning communities of SUCCEED practitioners in your organization.
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Provide on-site assistance, mentorship, regular coaching and review of adminitrators’/ supervisors’ work product.
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Have access to a customized SUCCEED website for McGrath Instructors that
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Collaborate with colleagues on issues and methods that have made a difference and enhanced the culture of trust, respect and growth in their school districts.
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Receive a one-year subscription to the SUCCEED Online Support Program.
The result is an organization-wide cultural shift in leadership and strategic thinking, employee job satisfaction, and increased student achievement.
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* Ask us about delivering the Foundations Course at other districts in your state or across the country.
TESTIMONIALS
“The most significant result I’ve observed is a focus on optimizing the potential of the people we already have. I believe that most administrators now have the idea they are working to create productive relationships with those they supervise in order to effect change. It is fairly challenging to communicate in ways that foster growth among ourselves and others. I believe that SUCCEED provides the principles and tools that make it much more possible.”
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Carole Lee, PhD
Director of Assessment and Evaluation
Fontana Unified School District
Fontana, CA