Coaching
What kind of team do you wish for? Does this team fully understand your company's mission and vision statement? Are they emotional aware and confident in themselves and their work? If you could change 3 things, what would they be? What goals would you like to meet in the next 3 months? Get answers to these questions through coaching and consulting.
Coaching is a goal-focused relationship in which coaches help their clients overcome challenges they’ve struggled to navigate on their own. If it’s a source of stress or discouragement for you, a coach can probably help.
Benefits:
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It helps you face challenges.
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It fosters team and individual work.
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It helps identify values and motivation.
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It creates a culture of appreciation.
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It is accountability around strategies and goals.
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It helps build a sense of belonging and trust.
Coaching That Feels Human
We believe coaching should feel like:
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Clarity in the chaos
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Courage when you feel unsure
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Accountability that builds you up
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Practical strategy you can implement tomorrow
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A voice that reminds you who you are when you forget
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You should have someone to call.
You should have someone who knows your program, your goals, your personality, and your pressure points.
You should have someone who celebrates your wins and steadies you in your setbacks.
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That’s what we offer.
Coaching Services
We offer coaching services at The Play Coaches as well as leading leadership retreats of day-away team building times. Some assessments offered include: Enneagram, VIA Strengths, 5 Love Languages, PERMA+ME Personal & Professional Wheel, and many more.
The 6 Basic Human Needs
3 hour session
Change & Conflict
3 hour session
Emotional Intelligence
2 hour session
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Vision Casting (Leadership)
2 hour session
Values & Strengths
2 hour session
Individual or Small Group Coaching
Varies, but at least a 3 month commitment
The Play Coaches offer many coaching and consulting sessions. Let us help develop you and your team today!
Leadership
What We Believe About Leadership & Community
At The Play Coaches, we believe leadership is not about titles.
It’s about courage.
It’s about connection.
It’s about choosing to grow — even when it’s hard.
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We know leadership in early childhood can feel heavy. You carry children. You carry families. You carry staff. You carry budgets. You carry vision. And too often, leaders carry it alone.
We don’t believe you were meant to lead alone.
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Leadership Shouldn't Be Lonely
We believe every director, teacher, and owner deserves:
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A safe place to think out loud
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A trusted sounding board
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Someone who understands the weight of the work
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Someone who has walked it before
Leadership can be isolating. Decisions can feel personal. Challenges can feel overwhelming. But when you are part of our community, you are never navigating it alone.
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You have a village.
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We Believe in the Power of a Village
Children thrive in villages.
Families thrive in villages.
Leaders do too.
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A village is where you are known.
A village is where your strengths are seen.
A village is where your hard days are held with compassion.
A village is where someone answers when you call.
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Our coaching is not surface-level. It is relational. It is personal. It is grounded in real experience.
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We have been teachers.
We have been directors.
We have grown schools.
We have closed programs.
We have navigated policy, staffing shortages, budgets, burnout, and breakthrough.
We don’t coach from theory alone.
We coach from lived experience.
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Leadership is Personal
We believe leadership growth is deeply personal. It touches your identity, your nervous system, your relationships, and your sense of purpose.
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So our coaching reflects that.
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We don’t just talk systems.
We talk mindset.
We talk emotional regulation.
We talk culture.
We talk sustainability.
We talk about the human behind the leader.
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Because strong leaders build strong schools.
Strong schools build strong families.
Strong families build strong communities.
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And communities change the world.
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When you step into The Play Coaches community, you step into something bigger than strategy. You step into belonging.
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You gain a village.
You gain support.
You gain perspective.
You gain people who understand.
And you never have to lead alone again.
“I like that it brought us closer together, and made us stronger as a team.”
Marion, IN