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Evaluation and collaboration

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

 

SUCCEED FOUNDATIONS COURSE
DOCUMENT, DISCIPLINE, DISMISS
SUCCEED INSTRUCTOR CERTIFICATION

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:

 

  • 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.

 

  • Provide tailored supervision and evaluation, giving honest feedback and focused direction.

 

  • Distinguish management’s right to supervise and remediate from the employees’ rights regarding evaluation procedures.

 

  • Raise staff morale and effect systemic change.

 

  • Communicate verbally and in writing, being factually based and legally sound, leaving nothing to be disputed.

WHO

The course is designed for 

  • administrators 

  • directors

  • supervisors

  • principals

  • assistant principals.

WHY

The SUCCEED Foundations Course 

  • improves employee retention

  • Improves employee engagement

  • Reduces litigation risks to the district

WHERE

10-hour training program Online, with 1 or multiple seats

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:   

  • Facilitates collaborative, collegial interactions with employees

  • Supports professional growth

  • Fosters a culture of accountability

  • Builds employee competence

  • 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 

  • administrators 

  • directors

  • supervisors

  • managers

  • principals

  • assistant principals.

WHY
  • Effectively deal with performance issues

  • Ensure compliance and due process

  • Support discipline and termination decisions

  • Avoid wrongful terminations

WHERE

6 hrs Online, with 1 or multiple seats

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. 

  • The skills needed to effectively deal with difficult performance-related issues

  • To use tools for consistent compliance with due process and just cause standards

  • Management’s rights and responsibilities to supervise while creating an atmosphere of collegiality, accountability, and cooperation

  • 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 

  • administrators 

  • directors

  • supervisors

  • principals

  • assistant principals.

WHY

Learn to train others and

create a culture of accountability with

  • System-wide adoption

  • flexible training dates

  • faster adoption

  • unlimited refreshers

WHERE

18 hrs Online, with 1 or multiple seats

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.

A Certified McGrath SUCCEED Instructor is Authorized under License to:

  • Conduct in-house training for administrators, supervisors, teachers and staff that can be tailored to the time and class size needs of the district.

  • Act as a SUCCEED facilitator with learning communities of SUCCEED practitioners in your organization.

  • Provide on-site assistance, mentorship, regular coaching and review of adminitrators’/ supervisors’ work product.

  • Have access to a customized SUCCEED website for McGrath Instructors that
    provides ongoing growth and professional development in the area of transformational communication.

  • 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.

  • 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.

* Ask us about delivering the Foundations Course at other districts in your state or across the country.

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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.”

Carole Lee, PhD

Director of Assessment and Evaluation

Fontana Unified School District

Fontana, CA

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