Know your people. Grow your people.
Leaders make or break an organization and people quit bosses, not jobs. The Horwitz Consulting Group is dedicated to helping school leaders create engaged teams, and transform their school to meet the needs of all learners.
Emerging Leaders Accelerator
School leaders often rise from great teachers. Get the tools you need to take the next step in your development and find out how to lead your team in our courses.
This course takes place over 5 days throughout the year and is designed for department heads, division heads or leaders to be. Participants will learn tangible tools and techniques to thrive including topics like how to build a strong team, how to lead meetings, how to have difficult conversations, and how to evaluate faculty.
Build Better Teams
The Horwitz Consulting Group knows that strong teams trust each other, communicate well, and lean into each other’s strengths to create better learning experiences for children. We utilize a 3D Strengths based approach that begins with each participant completing the Clifton Strengths Assessment.
In our Building Better Teams program, participants will:
Discover their strengths, understand how their strengths show up, and put a name to those patterns of thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
Participants will develop a deeper level of understanding, awareness and appreciation of their strengths; start to understand the totality of how their strength shows up. And, begin to match them to organizational and team goals.
Participants will deploy their strengths to positively impact their organization. It's not enough to just know your strengths, you must also take responsibility for actually using them. Enhance your performance and uplift the performance of other people around you; goal setting using an "Individual Development Plan."
Teacher Developer
Whether new to your school or new to the field, great teachers are hard to come by but they can be developed. Our program develops teachers by providing them with authentic, relevant, and transferable skills that they can apply to further organizational goals, create success for students, and retain strong teachers.
This course takes place over 5 days from August to December, custom designed for your school. Participants will learn authentic, relevant, transferrable skills to impact their teaching like: creating a classroom led by their strengths, establishing routines and procedures, Visible Thinking routines and Kagan structures, tips to build partnerships with parents, best practices around assessment, and much, much, more.
Coaching Services
Leadership can be lonely. Having a trusted coach to guide you through challenging times can be transformative.
Strengths-based development
The CliftonStrengths assessment gives people a common language and vocabulary to better describe, communicate with and understand each other. CliftonStrengths is the tool that inspires higher organizational and team performance, all while making every person better. Leaders, administrators and teachers choose to continually develop each person's potential, resulting in an engaged faculty and staff moving towards high student engagement.
A clear understanding of each other’s strengths is essential for team members and team dynamics. Peak performance and high engagement is unleashed when people know why they do what they do, what motivates them and when they're at their best.
“When you are thriving in wellbeing, you will show up differently at work. Having a solid understanding of your top CliftonStrengths can not only move you toward thriving, it can also help you manage stress and avoid burnout”. (D. Lee)
Faculty and staff will be coached to know themselves better, understand their talents, overcome obstacles, weaknesses and vulnerabilities, reach goals, identify their needs, form stronger teams and relationships with peers and at home, excel in their work, and perform better than ever before.